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Spiegel & Holmes Show

EPA statistics show effectiveness of Ben Johnson's halftime adjustments (Hour 3)

Spiegel & Holmes Show

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Sports

4.2652 Ratings

🗓️ 25 November 2025

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

In the third hour, Matt Spiegel and Anthony Herron praised the Bears coaching staff for having a number of reserve players well-prepared to play big roles in Chicago's 31-28 win against Pittsburgh on Sunday. Later, they discussed eye-opening statistics that show the effectiveness of Bears head coach Ben Johnson's in-game adjustments.

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0:00.0

Spiegel and Holmes.

0:01.1

So I've been waiting to say, and the stars are Spiegel and Holmes, Chicago.

0:07.4

Afternoons on the score.

0:11.0

This is every team.

0:12.2

This is the NFL.

0:13.2

So this is what happens when you play a 17-game season.

0:17.5

And it just so happened, you know, back half the seasons when it caught up to us a little

0:21.8

bit. And, you know, we'll get some of the reinforcements back at some point. But until then,

0:27.6

we've got to hold down the fort. And so that's what we'll do. That is Ben Johnson after the game

0:33.5

yesterday. And it usually does happen in the NFL, but man, yesterday was something. No starting

0:41.0

linebackers. And at one point, Jonah Jackson goes down and Luke Newman, you're seeing, after he

0:48.9

had been seen in the eye formation a little bit. Obviously, in the secondary, the massive amount of shuffling that's gone on,

0:56.5

including yesterday when McLeod had to come in for Tyreek.

1:00.2

Still know Jalen Johnson.

1:01.7

I mean, it was chaos on the depth chart, but not chaos on the field from the Chicago Bears.

1:10.4

It Speaks and Anthony Herron on the Spiegel and Holmes show.

1:12.8

I want to play this from the morning show, Ant, and then get your thoughts on it.

1:16.7

And I think it speaks to something you've been dying to discuss.

1:19.4

This is Brad Biggs this morning with Mully and Haw, talking about something that Tyson

1:25.4

Bajent mentioned to him kind of in passing this week,

1:29.1

and Brad started thinking about it.

1:30.9

I had a conversation last week with Tyson Bajit.

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