Ben Johnson wants faster starts by Bears' offense
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What’s the opening banter and who are the hosts of the show?
Rahimi, Harris, and Grody. That's the show trying to win a Marconi right there. Middays 10 to 2 on 1043, the score.
Oh, love a little Daft Punk on a Thursday. I like it. This is Rahimi Harris and Groti on 1043 the score. It's stronger. And then you know Kanye took it. Remixed it.
Oh Kanye. I still call
him Kanye. I
remember the old Kanye.
Apparently he's playing at Soldier Field. Did you guys see that? The billboards?
I won't be going to see him. You know where I'm on my concert. Oh, my concert thing.
I support old Kanye. I'm
gonna go see a com I'm gonna see a comedy show in uh October, but that what
are you gonna see?
Uh Kev on stage.
Oh, that oughta be amazing. Yeah,
he's good. He's
hilarious on Instagram. Yeah,
so I g I'm going to see him. That's gonna be my closest thing I can give you to a concert is a c a comedy show these days. Look, I ain't got much left in me. I ain't got I ain't got much left in me.
You talk like you're eighty and you're not you're you're in your mid forties.
I'm eighty in concert years because of the number of marquee concerts I have been to in my lifetime.
Why are the hosts debating Kanye’s concert plans and old‑school vs. new‑school vibes?
What a what a bra. No
I'm trying to figure out if I'm going to Casey Musk race tomorrow at the United Center.
Okay, you called me out. You got you got me there, Ray. You got me there.
Also Kev on stage ruled on somebody asked him the the harebrained question of can we retire, can we talk? And he was like, The answer is no
Absolutely not. What are you talking about? What? Tevin Campbell? Classic? Remember that from my freaking high school dance. What are we talking what are we talking about?
I was really yeah, I sent you remember I sent you the video 'cause somebody asked him this.
Girl. I wanna know your name. What?
Yeah. Y exactly. Uh so Apparently there's a lot happening at joint practices today.
Love it.
Ben Baby, my fellow North Texas mean green, who covers the bangles for ESPN, tweeted this fifteen minutes ago. Not sure what just happened in the low red zone, but Caleb Williams found a wide open Khalif Raymond for a touchdown. Ooh. I
don't hate that.
Ooh. We haven't seen that yet. That's not something that we've been able to see in game action, that's for sure.
So here's my problem, Layla. I'm trying to figure out can we really measure the Bears offense by what we know the Bengals defense to be?
The answer is no.
Can we talk? But at the same time, I do feel like we can measure the Bears defense because we know what the Bengals offense is. I think the
Bengals also feel the same way.
Like they can't measure their offense against the Bears' defense? Offense against the Bears defense.
Like we know there may be another forty seven to forty two game just as to what's happening. Like Ben Baby also said Zach Pearson said that too, because these two teams are basically the same, L O L. 'Cause it's true. Ben Baby also said this twenty minutes ago. Offense is humming right now in the red zone for both teams.
He's just a baby.
Who's shocked? Who's shocked? Joe Burrow connecting with Jamar Chase.
Uh
Caleb Williamson and Colston Loveland. Is is anybody shocked by any of this? W did they just get together and and were was it Ben Jones and Z and or Ben Johnson and Zach Taylor and they were just like Hey, you guys really like offense, right? Like Do you want to get together and just have more offense? We're having joint practices with Cincinnati.
Seriously, when you think about the Bears and them practicing like joint practice against someone, there's no other team that seven on seven Most resembles yeah, the actual football game and what it would be than Bears versus Bengals. We can go back to last year's tape. We can go back to this year and just what the defenses look like. Remember, the Bengals lost their best defensive player from a year ago, or just the best one they had on the roster because he was hurt part of the time and Trey Henderson.
Guy.
The the Bears don't have their supposed super nickel. Or just Clark Kent Nickel, however you want to call him these days. You know, 'cause he ate he does he lost his way to the phone booth a long time ago. So
yeah, we may do you know what happened?
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