Dan Wiederer: Ben Johnson's offensive prowess hasn't taken a hit at all (Hour 4)

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What made Alshon Jeffery’s time with the Chicago Bears memorable?

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Mark Grote 0:01

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Leila Rahimi 0:12

Dan Weederer, Bears reporter and senior writer for the athletic.

Dan Wiederer 0:16

You're gonna be relying on a lot of young players. Guys that have to materialize into who they thought they were. The Bears are who we

Leila Rahimi 0:22

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Mark Grote 0:39

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Mark Grote 1:27

Weedman, what's going on? How are you? What are you thinking? Tell me everything.

Dan Wiederer 1:32

I'm doing well. It was uh great to hear Al Sean Jeffery's voice just a few minutes ago. I was around for much of his time here in Chicago, so nice to nice to take that walk down memory lane with him a little bit. What do you remember? Yeah,

Vinny Rotino 1:42

what'd you s what stood out to you about it?

Dan Wiederer 1:45

Look, like Al Shon was always a very pleasant guy to talk to. You know, he's obviously on the on the quieter side in the locker room. He was a a a good dude to to just kind of touch base with from time to time. And I obviously you guys brought up some of the high points, whether it was big touchdown catches or huge games. Uh like there were there were some real highs during his time here individually for him. Uh unfortunately for the team, there weren't a lot of those collectively for the team. And so it's a like a a lot of former players' existence over the years, you just kind of have these uh mixed emotions of of loving your time playing for the Bears fans, but never quite achieving what you thought was there to achieve.

Mark Grote 2:20

Who'd had you thought like I mean, 'cause I wasn't covering the team then, I was I would just hear things that would come out and the perception was that Alshon Jeffrey didn't like Chicago. Do do you remember that per perception going on? And was he ever questioned on it? 'Cause it it sounds like it was cleared up a little bit today during our talk with him.

Dan Wiederer 2:38

Well, I remember the the outside chatter about that. I I also remember being in close contact with agent uh with uh El Shon and his camp there at a time where look like he was Pla played on the franchise tag, you know, and

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Dan Wiederer 2:50

Sometimes sometimes that diminishes your enjoyment of the place you're at at the time because you think you're uh worth more. You think that that you deserve a longer investment in in who you are and what your career can be. And uh they just kind of ran into a a brick wall with that and and ultimately it led to Alshon uh going to to to Philadelphia and then obviously getting his uh his Super Bowl glory there with the Eagles.

Vinny Rotino 3:11

Not to get off topic too much, but you know what? The franchise tag usage is a lot different between pace and polls. Now that we've had a few years under each one's belts to kind of compare and contrast, obviously I think this gets a a bigger discussion, you know, the longer polls is in tenure. But Pace was not afraid to use a franchise tag, and it did make me wonder how it affected his players.

How did the Bears’ franchise tag affect Alshon Jeffery’s exit?

Dan Wiederer 3:33

Well, I mean it it's it it really is case by case in a lot of ways where you you know, you're trying to manage a little picture and a big picture. Uh positions factor into it, you know, what what what sort of the supply and demand of talent is at the position.