What Lies Ahead: Ben Johnson, Ryan Poles Begin the Bears Blueprint for 2026 | Hoge & Jahns

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🗓️ 21 January 2026

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Hoge & Jahns are LIVE reacting to the Chicago Bears’ end-of-season press conferences from Halas Hall. Ben Johnson and Ryan Poles addressed the media on how the season played out — and how the organization is already building the blueprint for what lies ahead as the Bears turn their focus to 2026. 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	Welcome in to a live.
0:12.0	Welcome in to a live edition of Hogan Johns, presented by Old National Bank.
0:18.6	Every play matters, whether it's on the field or in your financial life,
0:22.0	the best teams win by delivering excellence at every level old national bank where relationships
0:27.2	and results matter member FDIC. Welcome in. Hogan John's with you. We decided to go live on
0:36.6	YouTube today after the press conferences to wrap up the 2025 season.
0:45.1	And of course, still available as a podcast for everyone else, not following along live.
0:49.8	But if you are here live, we appreciate you.
0:51.7	We'll take some super chats and some questions along the way as well. And if you caught us earlier on CSGO Bears, don't worry. We got new sound for you. There was a lot today. There was a lot to cover. And Johns wasn't on that show. So we're going to hear all of his thoughts as well. I will not sneeze. Now, I'm known for my sneezes. I know. Brad's pulled a you. You got to hit the unmute button, buddy.
1:14.5	That was a big one.
1:28.0	He thought it was all clear. As an impressive man sneeze, I'm known for my loud, aggressive sneezes. So I can rate sneezes. That was a good manly sneeze from Greg Bragg. How about this challenge from the iceberg to start us off? Says, good afternoon.
1:29.2	Hogan Johns fanatics.
1:32.8	CHGO bears had 215 likes on their show.
1:36.7	Let's show them how we do things here at the Hogan John's chat room.
1:37.8	Hit that like button.
1:38.9	It's a good challenge.
1:40.3	Got to go over 215.
1:42.1	So here we go.
2:02.9	We got Katie producing as always. And Johns, I know you, you kind of put together a rundown here and got a whole bunch of sound as I was handling the other show. I am going to do a little bit of a curveball here because I do think this is important just to start. I did not say this on the last show, but I've been catching up a little bit on what was going on in Buffalo today.
2:14.7	We've been there. We've been we've been there covering the press conference that owners and team presidents are saying crazy stuff. And it's it's like, wow, it's just viewed national. It becomes a national story instead of a local story because it's it's like wow it's just viewed nationally it becomes a national
2:18.4	story instead of a local story because it's one of those end of season pressers that went
2:23.5	wrong so it's a little bit refreshing today to just have a relatively normal but interesting
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