Ben Johnson doesn't sound confident about the Bears' left tackle position

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Why do the hosts treat the left‑tackle discussion like a game‑show quiz?

Unknown 0:00

Rahimi Fengrodi Slashback. Slash Bro Able to uh reveal your starting left tackle. Yeah, I'll go with Braxton.

Vinny Rotino 0:09

I forgot. I forgot that you were the newsbreaker there that day last year.

Mark Grote 0:14

I asked the question. I don't know if I was the newsbreaker. Somebody I was there. I appreciate the credit though. Thank you. Thank you. You

Vinny Rotino 0:20

did. You were the one who asked and then Ben told you.

Mark Grote 0:22

Somebody would ask the question.

Vinny Rotino 0:24

And then you asked him about, you know, the rom com and the and then throwback uniforms and the I'm kidding.

Mark Grote 0:30

It almost sounded like a uh like a game show now that I listen back to it and he just says, you know what? Uh he's got all these choices. I'm gonna go with Braxton Jones. What the hell?

Unknown 0:39

Door number three. Yeah, I'll go with Braxton. I'll go with Braxton Door number three.

Vinny Rotino 0:45

Congratulations.

Unknown 0:46

Should I have said in that case incorrect answer, sir. Try again. Braxton Jones for five hundred. Wrong! Wrong again!

Vinny Rotino 0:55

This left tackle was drafted in the fifth round by part of the early Ryan Poles regime.

Mark Grote 1:02

But yeah, Braxton Jones. Well look, hey, okay.

Vinny Rotino 1:04

The answer is who is Braxton Jones?

Mark Grote 1:06

Who is Braxton Jones? Braxton Jones has

Vinny Rotino 1:09

had a hell of a career.

Mark Grote 1:10

He really has. Like relative for him. I'm not s like he really has.

Vinny Rotino 1:16

The qualifier is what is what crushes it though.

Mark Grote 1:18

He's a right. He's a fifth round pick. He's been starting in the NFL s small college,

Unknown 1:25

starting in the NFL.

Mark Grote 1:26

Utah State. Since it's correct. Since his rookie year. And every year they keep marching him back. So he is having a a terrific career. He's a decent left tackle. But we are now in the era of you need better than decent as you're starting left tackle. Because if Ben Johnson wants to do all the things that he wants to do, and that is to break records with offense and embarrass opponents, then you probably think you need to do a little bit better. But like I cheers to Braxton Jones. Like he he has been he's having a terrific NFL career. But we must bring you now to Ben Johnson yesterday, who spoke to the the mass media of Bears Reporters yesterday. And Ben Johnson was asked about again, here we are, here we are again.

Mark Grote 2:19

He asked about the left tackle situation.

Who is Braxton Jones and why is his fifth‑round draft background important?

Ben Johnson 2:22

I think we we're gonna be good to go for week one. Um, you know, we'll talk a little bit more as a staff just to make sure we're all aligned. But uh but yeah, I I think we're gonna we're we're gonna be in good shape. We're gonna be able to operate as an offense. Um And I think we'll be able to score points. It's gonna take all eleven o of those guys out there in order to get that done.

Mark Grote 2:40

I think we'll be able to operate as an offense. We'll be able to score points. We'll be able to operate. I think we're gonna be good to go for week one. But they're still talking about it. Did that sound as robotic as I'm making as I had just interpreted it?

Vinny Rotino 2:57

It was just an answer that stated what offenses do. I think we will have four downs. With those four downs, we will try to have yards. And in those yards, we will try to then get closer to the end zone. And if we get to the end zone, we will score points.

Mark Grote 3:14

And we will have a left tackle. There will be somebody playing the left tackle position and we will be okay.

Vinny Rotino 3:21

Think about how he talks about people he likes. Think about how he talks about the threat of losing people he likes, like Tyson Bajet.

Mark Grote 3:28

Yeah. I love Tyson. NOOOOO

Vinny Rotino 3:33

Right.

Mark Grote 3:34

I mean yes. Yes.

Vinny Rotino 3:36

Yeah. So given that, or him buying stock and Luther Burden, you know, that glowing assessment, glowing.

Unknown 3:42

Yeah.

Vinny Rotino 3:43

This is not glowing. This is just telling you what an offense does. Can we do that again? Can we can we get the hamster on the wheel and get it back on again? One more time. Our poor little hamster

Ben Johnson 3:57

one. Um, you know, we'll talk a little bit more as the staff just to make sure we're all aligned. But uh but yeah, I I think we're gonna we're we're gonna be in good shape. We're gonna be able to operate as an offense. Um And I think we'll be able to score points. It's gonna take all eleven o of those guys out there in order to get that done.

Vinny Rotino 4:12

Yeah, that's just what offense is doing the NFL.

Mark Grote 4:14

They're gonna be able to operate as an offense.