PERFECT PAIRING: How Ben Johnson and Dennis Allen Turned Around the Bears | CHGO Bears Podcast

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🗓️ 17 December 2025

⏱️ 88 minutes

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Summary

Dennis Allen has had a lot on his plate all season long creating a pass rush while the defense dealt with multiple injuries. Allen has been an enormous asset for Ben Johnson. One player that Allen is directly responsible for is D’Marco Jackson who is the NFC Defensive Player of the Week. Adam Hoge is at Halas Hall with questions for Allen on Jackson and the defense. Meanwhile, Mark Carman and Greg Braggs Jr. have their 5 biggest surprises from 2025 that has helped the Bears to first place in the NFC North. Carman, Braggs and Hoge at Halas host the CHGO Bears Podcast.

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0:00.0	We are creeping closer to Saturday night, and it'll be here soon enough, Gregory.
0:12.3	Don't you worry?
0:13.1	That's right.
0:13.6	The perfect pairing indeed.
0:15.9	Ben Johnson, Dennis, down a whole lot of DA today as he's speaking at Hallis.
0:19.9	But first, let's remind you that
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0:39.6	Fresh out of the shower.
0:41.2	Right here, yours truly the carm.
0:43.9	Just carm fresh out of the shower.
0:46.1	Just me.
0:46.7	Just so we're clear.
0:48.6	I showered hours ago.
0:51.2	Did you?
0:51.6	We did not shower together.
0:52.8	Did you shower today?
0:53.8	Are you a last nighter? We don't need to know that. Why don't we make it even more awkward by bringing in Adam Hoag, who did shower this morning. I don't know that, but he just looks at look at how fresh he looks today. That's a morning shower right there. Hit the like button for showering in the morning. I always shower in the morning. You have to. And you have shower every day, sometimes twice a day. And if you don't, it's weird. I typically shower twice a day. If that surprises you. I forgot about that. I'm a big shower guy. Sometimes, yeah, sometimes even three. Yeah, you're a three time shower guy. When you have nine cigars a day, you need to take three showers. Really, it's just to like warm the
1:33.3	body up, especially in the winter. A warm body up? What about just like, you know, exercise? How about
1:38.8	that to warm up the body? Yeah, but hey, you're, you're, you're doing the cheat code.
1:45.9	I appreciate it.
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