Mark Grote

What is Ben Johnson's identity?

Is he talking about the good, better, best stuff?

Is it the mentality of coming back in the fourth quarter?

What have they taken on from Ben Johnson?

Now that I hear that cut, I'm trying to figure that out.

I know what the identity of the Bears is.

It is winning games late, period.

But that's not Ben Johnson's identity.

No, no, no.

He asked the question, when did the players start taking on your identity?

I don't think Ben Johnson came into Hallis Hall with the identity of we're going to win games in the fourth quarter and we're not going to play well for three quarters.

So, I don't know, am I nitpicking here too much?

Like, what is Ben Johnson's identity?

Yeah.

No.

No.

No, I won't.

So that's Ben Johnson telling you that he realizes and admits that the actual identity of this team is what we saw not only in that game, but over the course of seven fourth-quarter comeback wins authored by Caleb Williams in games in which you thought they were not going to win, whether you want to talk about a blocked field goal in the last second against the Raiders, whether you want to talk about a game-winning field goal, whether you want to talk about an onside kick

recovered in the second meeting against the Green Bay Packers.

I think the realization has now hit us all that we thought