Is Ben Johnson recreating what he helped put together in Detroit? (Hour 1)

Spiegel & Holmes Show

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4.2 • 652 Ratings

🗓️ 28 April 2025

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Matt Spiegel and Laurence Holmes opened their show by breaking down the Bears' eight-man draft class and what it tells us about head coach Ben Johnson's vision in Chicago. After that, they listened and reacted to Score football analyst Olin Kreutz's critique of the Bears' draft class.

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0:00.0	Spiegel and Holmes.
0:01.8	Okay, here we go, sports fans.
0:04.5	Afternoons on the score.
0:05.9	Dude, Ryan Poles was extremely proud of himself in the work they had done.
0:10.8	Ben Johnson talking about, yeah, now we're cooking with grease, you know, as he's talking
0:14.1	hot grease.
0:14.8	Hot grease.
0:15.5	We took to a hot grease now, man.
0:18.7	Hey, it's Ryan Poles from the Bears.
0:19.8	It's ready to be a Chicago bear.
0:21.7	Let's go, man. Hey, it's Ryan Poles from the Bears. It's been to be a Chicago Bear. Let's go, Coach.
0:22.7	Come on, let's go.
0:23.4	Let's go.
0:28.7	Colston assumes it's the coach that's on the line, but it's Ryan Poles that's on the line.
0:30.2	So here's the thing about that.
0:37.7	I think that's just football people. California for a wedding. He was talking and he said, I'm going to beat out Drew Bledsoe. And I go,
0:42.6	we call each other a coach. I go, coach, this is Drew Bledsoe, pro bowl quarterback. Tanny and I literally call each other coach because we've been around so many coaches that only call you guys. Well, but
0:47.7	that's one of you does that. When I get introduced, people say, what would you like me to call you? Dave, on a golf course or something, they're not going to remember. I said, just call me coach. It's simpler. 40 years of coaching, the guys that I
0:57.7	normally would get worked up with, you know, I'm not going to call players coach, okay? And I don't,
1:02.7	I don't look at you, you or Spiegel as a player sure as hell, you know what I mean? You don't many times over 40 years of coaching that I've turned to my assistants and says,
1:12.4	coach, are you kidding me?
1:13.7	It comes on.
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