Jarrett Payton calls Ben Johnson a 'madman': 'I love him to death'
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Who is Jarrett Payton and why is he on the show?
Jared Payton.
My name is Jared Payton and I am here to motivate you today.
Former NFL running back. Jared Payton wearing his father's number, number 34, and looking like the old man. Look at this run. A gorgeous job by Jared Payton. The
son of sweetness.
There's Walter with his cubs jacket on. And here he comes out. His son Jarrett is with him. Sweetness, what an ovation!
Sports anchor for WGN. You know me. I'm the resident running back, Jarrett Payton, with Raheemi Harrison Grody on Chicago Sports Radio. 670 the score.
Uncle Luke got me hooked on Hennessy, so thank you to Uncle Luke.
You know what that music means. There was a 305 engagement earlier in the week. The University of Miami faced Indiana in an exciting national title game. And that is where Jared Payton went to school. We talked to Jared Payton here and Raheemi Harris and Grody on the Circus Sports Illinois Hotline. Download the Circus Sports app today. Jarrett also anchors, of course, for WGN. You can catch the sports office on the free WGN plus C. Streaming app on your smart TV weeknights live at seven thirty. Why are you shaking your head, Marshall?
Nah, it didn't. It didn't at all. It's d I I'm just getting over this. Oh just like today I'm starting to feel good. So I but first and foremost, how you three doing, man? Always good to talk sports with you guys.
I mean, but also you had we had one heartbreaking end of a game of consequence. You had two this weekend.
Yeah, back back to back nights. Layla, it was it was very, very rough. And it's weird because I told you guys like the the the uh the symmetry between both teams, right? Like over the last like two months where they've played on the weekend and I've had, you know, both Bears and Hurricanes playing and so I was it was wins. I was I was having both teams winning and I was like, Lord, thank you so much thank you thank you so after Sunday I was like yo is this a sign here and I was like nah we we're I think we're gonna be good but you know what things happen man and just hats off though to to Indiana I I just I it's it's very very hard. I've I've been in that situation where you are trying to win a championship and back in our day it it wasn't as tough as it is now.
And to be able to win sixteen games and go through this playoff and and how every single week, people telling you how good you are and you have to block that out and be focused and and motivated and not like, you know, n not eat the cheese. Like all that stuff. I've I've been there to to know how difficult it is, I give them a lot of credit for for being able to go sixteen and oh and take it down my canes. But we will be back. We will be back if you see me right now, flex it. We ain't we ain't go we ain't going nowhere. The NIL money is flowing. We we figuring out quarterback situation and I just think that when when the hurricanes are are are are good, man, it makes college football fun. And so it it but it did feel good to to be the the villains again, man.
Like the whole world, you know, f you know, really taking this Indiana story and rightfully so. But uh, you know, when I was there it from ninety nine to to two thousand and three, that's how it felt, you guys. I I felt like we were always this team that everybody loved to hate. And uh it it felt good to be back in in that in that conversation and Um the fact that Malachi Tony's coming back, man, I'm all yeah. As long as I know that, man, I am good. Ten is is a is real deal and the fact that he probably should be in i in in high school at the moment right now, but playing with some grown men and balling And we uh the best football is in South Florida. So if we can find a way, which we're already in the portal, but also taking care of keeping the best kids in South Florida because most of the kids that that most of the guys that were balling against us in that game were from South Florida.
Yeah, for Nano Mendoza. Fernando Mendoza's story
it's
Like you don't need to we don't need to go anywhere. That's what made us good back in the day. We need to just prioritize South Florida, keep the kids in South Florida in South Florida.
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Chapters
4 chapters
1
Who is Jarrett Payton and why is he on the show?
0:00–4:53
2
What were the biggest takeaways from the Bears’ 2025 season press conference?
4:53–10:00
3
Why does Jarrett call Ben Johnson a ‘madman’ and what does he love about him?
10:00–13:59
4
Which safety should the Bears keep long‑term – Kevin Byard or Jaquan Brisker?
13:59–15:25
Speakers
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