All eyes will be on the Ben Johnson-Brian Flores chess match Sunday (Hour 2)
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What is the upcoming Bears‑Vikings chess match and why is it a must‑watch?
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When you face someone like Ruz, where not not only is he very accomplished, but someone that you have faced so many times, is there ever a a trap to avoid of just overthinking and trying to guess? He thinks you think he thinks you think he thinks he you're gonna do or Yeah, yeah, uh yes there is. How how do you How do you avoid going down a path where you're just Overdoing. I'm in that path right now.
Um No, I mean there's there's a lot of that. Man, end of the day. Our guys, I want them to go out and play fast. Um I wanna make sure we're sound. It's not very different than than what we talked about a week ago. Making sure we have a hat for a hat as often as we can. And if he gets us on something, that's fine. Then we we gotta you know, come together and make sure we get it corrected and and we'll move on from there. So that that's this game will end up being some adjustments going on over the course of it. Um might be in the tablet a little bit more than than I'd like to over the course of a game, but that's how these ones have have tended to go in the past.
I love that both Brian Flores, the defensive coordinator of the Vikings, and Ben Johnson, from whom you just heard the head coach of the Chicago Bears have sort of accepted the duel that this game is going to be between those two masterminds for the Bears and Vikings this Sunday along the lakefronts. As we welcome you back into Rahimi and Grody on 1043, the score. There's no not the usual downplaying Layla that we typically get where it's not no, this is not just another game. These two coaches are both accepting their geniusness com coming into this game and I think it's absolutely beautiful. It's about them.
Babe, wake up. It's Ben Johnson versus B Brian Flores.
That's it. It's on.
That's really what this is and the
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System of a down belongs to everyone. Yes, it does. Yes. Cause Ray,
you put that in initially, right? Yeah, this is true. Every time I hear that I get that jolt that you guys just heard. Like that just rings.
See, that's the point. You've gotta understand people's reverse triggers, the things that make them focus, for example. For Mark, it's when'd you get in and wake up. And that. So so for Chris Getz, it's finding him on an elevator. When'd you get in? Dan, it was a catchy headline. You've just gotta learn these things about your people. That's
right.
And that's that's how it uh that's how it comes together. That's the quine. Babe, wake up. It's Brian Flores versus Ben Johnson week. And that that is the thing. All the seam heads, so to speak, in the NFL. I know that's a baseball term, but all the all the NFL junkies right now, the football fiends. This is their week. This is it. And Ben Johnson smiled whenever we heard our friend Jason Leisure ask him that question in that way, because that's really what What this is. A lot of times I think that there are coordinators who think they're too smart and they're trying to outthink somebody else and it's like you don't have the athletes for that. It doesn't matter. It's not gonna work. This is not that case. This is truly two people at the elite levels of their coordinating game who respect each other's talents, their abilities, and then what they're gonna do to make the other one just crumble.
And I enjoy this at many levels.
Let's get into some of it. And as we learned with some really specific analytics and statistics yesterday from our guy Clay Harbour. And I'll get into more of that as this segment goes on for people who did not have the benefit of hearing yesterday. That I'll just start by saying that Ben Johnson is five and one in six games against Brian Flores since twenty twenty three. Whoa, whoa, whoa. Just so good. System. That that blasts through my place often too, by the way. That's a real thing that goes on. Dave the Cat digs system of down as well. Does he get
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Chapters
6 chapters
1
What is the upcoming Bears‑Vikings chess match and why is it a must‑watch?
0:01–7:43
2
How do Ben Johnson and Brian Flores’ coaching styles compare statistically?
7:43–16:55
3
What adjustments are the Bears expected to make against Flores’ defense?
16:55–25:12
4
How does Caleb Williams’ read‑and‑react ability impact the Bears’ offense?
25:12–32:43
5
Why are Pete Crow‑Armstrong and Caleb Williams considered Chicago’s must‑watch stars?
32:43–37:46
6
What historic Chicago sports duos does this era compare to?
37:46–42:27
Speakers
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