Ryan Poles & Ben Johnson are counting on Dayo Odeyingbo & Shemar Turner
Spiegel & Holmes Show
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🗓️ 27 April 2026
⏱️ 8 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Third down and four, McCarthy. |
| 0:05.0 | Time runs out and down he goes. |
| 0:10.0 | Just tripped up and it'll go down as a sack. |
| 0:14.0 | Pressure by Dio O'Dango, who was brought in by the front office |
| 0:20.0 | to beef up the pass rush for Chicago. |
| 0:24.9 | And the bears are counting on him quite a bit. |
| 0:29.1 | And I know that once we get to September and October and if things don't go well, |
| 0:33.2 | they're going to tell you that they're not counting on them quite a bit. |
| 0:36.0 | But they are. |
| 0:37.2 | But they have to. And it's annoying to us. And I get why it's annoying to us. But the truth is, |
| 0:44.6 | they used some draft capital on Shemar Turner, and they used a lot of money on Dio O'Dango. |
| 0:50.1 | Those two guys have got to make the coach and the general manager right. |
| 0:55.7 | Got to make them right. |
| 1:03.2 | Because what they basically said is we feel like we're getting draft picks back from injury. |
| 1:05.1 | Which is a dangerous game to play. |
| 1:05.5 | It is. |
| 1:10.9 | But it's also, let's be honest, it's also a philosophy we've used in different sports at times where it's like, |
| 1:17.0 | you know, it'll be kind of like their trade deadline acquisition when player X returns to health. |
| 1:18.2 | It never feels good, though. |
| 1:20.2 | It's always a rationalization. |
| 1:23.1 | Yeah, it's copium, as you call it, right? A whole bunch of copium. |
| 1:25.2 | Here's what Ben Johnson had to say about, listen, this is about the players that they've got in-house and the coaches to coach him up. |
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