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Spiegel & Holmes Show

Why Coby Bryant is a player Ben Johnson has been coveting

Spiegel & Holmes Show

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Sports

4.2652 Ratings

🗓️ 10 March 2026

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

Matt Spiegel and Laurence Holmes discussed the similarities between newly acquired Bears safety Coby Bryant and Packers safety Evan Williams.

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0:00.0

Rogers, Douthfield, looking for Austin, picked up by Kobe Bryant.

0:04.0

Rush four, and he's in there, fires over the middle, and a slow.

0:08.0

It's picked at the 32-yard line.

0:11.0

Burzmer, let's rip, two-tall and picked off by Kobe Bryant.

0:15.0

First down in 10, and Rashad White, drilled in there initially by Kobe Bryant.

0:20.0

Let's talk about And Rashad White, drilled in there initially by Kobe Bryant.

0:26.6

Let's talk about the safety position, shall we?

0:35.4

Let's talk about new bear Kobe Bryant and how that move seems to be universally liked.

0:39.5

Like that seems like a really smart move for the bears, considering there were no safeties that were on the roster and you go and sign one that people have high

0:45.0

hopes for.

0:45.8

He's a hybrid safety.

0:47.4

He can play strong or free.

0:49.5

That's something that your defensive coordinator seems to like.

0:53.6

And so there's value in it that one,

0:55.7

he's a good player. And two, he can play two spots. So it doesn't limit what you can do the

1:00.8

rest of the way free agency or the draft. You don't have to go, well, now we're just looking

1:05.5

for box safety. You can actually say, well, if we find another safety that's got some hybrid ability to or someone that we know is elite or has elite potential to play the free safety spot, for example, you can do that because Bryant's played both.

1:22.6

Yeah, and with that reasoning, it doesn't close the book on the Kevin Byard conversation, which we can have in a minute.

1:30.7

But I was realizing that it dovetails really nicely, and we got some information on it yesterday that'll put all this together.

1:38.3

We'll tie the room together like a nice area rug, is that we listen closely to Ben Johnson, especially during this first year when he talks about the opponents.

1:46.3

And every time he talked about the safeties in Green Bay,

1:49.5

he raved and raved about them.

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