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🗓️ 3 February 2026

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Hoge & Jahns are LIVE from Radio Row in San Francisco ahead of Super Bowl LX between the New England Patriots and Seattle Seahawks. We’ve got a stacked episode featuring exclusive interviews from around the league. First, Chicago Bears captain Kevin Byard joins the show to reflect on the 2025 season, working with impactful coaches like Al Harris, Ben Johnson, and Declan Doyle, and playing with who he believes will be one of the best quarterbacks in the league — Caleb Williams. Byard walks through some of the most memorable moments from the season, including comeback wins and key takeaways alongside Tremaine Edmunds and Nahshon Wright, and shares his hopes of returning to Chicago with insight into his conversations with Ryan Poles and Ben Johnson. We also hear from Thomas Brown, the Bears’ former interim head coach following the firing of Matt Eberflus, as he discusses what it was like to hold three different coaching roles in one season. Plus, Andrew Janocko, former Bears QB coach and current Seahawks QB coach. He joins to talk about working closely with Sam Darnold and his impact on Seahawks’ offense. A jam-packed episode from Radio Row you won’t want to miss! Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

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0:00.0	What's up?
0:11.1	Welcome in Hogan Johns with you from Radio Row at Super Bowl 60.
0:19.0	Day two here.
0:20.4	It's busy. You got some friends behind us. This is fun. Those aren't friends, are there? It's Bill Zimmerman. The Mad Dog, actually. You ever know who's going to pop it? I don't know if they can even see them in the background, but. Is that Greg Braggs? It's probably Braggs harassing somebody as usual.
0:37.9	Welcome in.
0:38.9	We are here, as always, presented by Old National Bank.
0:41.9	Every play matters, whether it's on the field or in your financial life.
0:45.9	The best teams win by delivering excellence at every level.
0:49.1	Old National Bank where relationships and results matter, member FDIC.
0:58.1	Well, we got a big show for you got a bunch of guests we had a long conversation with kevin byard yesterday uh who just had a great season with
1:03.7	the bears and is here for the pro bowl which is happening tonight as a flag football game or this
1:08.9	afternoon and west coast time that's right well it's
1:11.7	5 p.m. I think it starts. You may be right no yeah yeah okay yeah it's 5 p.m. here uh so 7 p.m. back
1:19.4	home if you're in Chicago wherever you're watching uh it's on TV if you're watching if you want to
1:23.9	watch a flag football game on TV tug a war a war at it. Tug a war,
1:27.8	or whatever. But he obviously is an impending free agent. And Ryan Poles had said at the end of the
1:35.4	season, he wants to bring him back. So we had a long conversation with Kevin, which was awesome. Last
1:40.0	night was also opening night down in San Jose. Nice driving California traffic down there.
1:46.0	And we had a chance to catch up with Thomas Brown, who does go down on the long list of Bears
1:53.1	head coaches in the franchise's history. Well, I think as he brings up in the interview, he's the only
1:58.1	coach in Bears franchise history to go from
2:01.2	offensive course passing game coordinator to offensive coordinator to interim
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