EXCLUSIVE Sit-Down Interview with Bears GM Ryan Poles + Time with Ben Johnson in Palm Beach

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🗓️ 2 April 2025

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Hoge & Jahns are in Palm Beach for the NFL Owners Meetings, bringing you a must-listen episode! They sit down exclusively with Bears GM Ryan Poles, who breaks down the team’s biggest offseason trades, signings, and the vision for the season ahead. Plus, Bears head coach Ben Johnson joins the show to share his thoughts on what’s next for the team. A jam-packed episode full of insider insight—you don’t want to miss it!#chicagobears #beardown #calebwilliams #ryanpoles #benjohnson Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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0:00.0	From CHGio, it's Adam Hogue.
0:06.8	And from the athletic, it's Adam Johns.
0:11.9	What's up?
0:12.8	Welcome in Hogue and Johns with you in Sunny Palm Beach, Florida.
0:19.0	It's going to get you here soon.
0:20.6	Yeah, I was going to say, if you're watching it on YouTube, we got the Wrigley Field Shadows creeping in, or it's actually the opposite, the sun's creeping in, it's chasing us hard here. So we'll see what this looks like at the end. But welcome in, we've got an exciting episode for you. Of course, a lot of coverage from down here in Florida, too, at the owner's meetings, some really good availability. Still more to come, because we haven't even talked to, as we're recording this today, we haven't even talked to George McCasky or Kevin Warren yet. We've heard a lot from Ben Johnson, a lot from Ryan Poles today, and Poles was kind enough to sit down with us here on the show as well. Yeah, a lot to get to.
0:55.0	I mean, a lot has happened since we last met with him in his office before training camp.
1:00.0	Like a lot, a lot.
1:02.0	Like, a lot.
1:04.0	A lot of bad and seemingly a lot of good since the season ended too.
1:08.0	So it's a good way to kick off this interview.
1:12.3	We always like having Ryan on the program and we know you do too. So let's toss to it right now.
1:17.5	Our conversation with Bear's General Manager, Ryan Poles.
1:20.3	Ryan Poles, thanks for coming on the show again. I know our listeners, viewers really appreciate it.
1:25.1	Absolutely.
1:25.9	A lot has happened since we talked to in
1:28.0	your office back in August how do you reflect on obviously what was a tough
1:32.8	season but also how it you know seemingly led you to this point where you
1:36.8	managed to hire Ben Johnson added you know all pro and Joe Tuny all these
1:41.7	things that that you've been able to do. It's kind of, it was hard,
1:45.2	but it all led you to this point here. Yeah, I mean, that's the difficult part is going through
1:50.4	that adversity. My hope is it allows us to, one, learn a lot. Our players get to learn a lot
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