Mike Florio talks NFL Combine & Bears give Tremaine Edmunds permission to seek a trade (Hour 2)
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Ladies and gentlemen, joining us now is a man who's got a massive brain.
Mike Florio.
He used to be a lawyer, then he decided to take his talents to the internet.
NBC Sports. I'm sorry I'm late. I was talking to Robert Kraft. That isn't the time for an airing of grievances. Pro Football Talk. I got a lot of problems with you people. No, you're going to hear about it. On Chicago Sports Radio, 104.3 The Score.
Mike Florio works nonstop for you. He does it for you. Mike Florio is the one who got us that incredible interview with Ben Johnson where he still very much hates the Packers. He joins us on our hotline. He is also on twitch.tv slash the score. Chicago Florio is working at the combine. He is the creator and editor-in-chief of Pro Football Talk. Mike Florio, thanks for joining us.
Hey, good to be with you now. You can call at work if you want, but I'm just hanging around talking football, so I get paid to do it, so no complaints.
You're clearly having a good time, as judged by your interaction with Ben Johnson yesterday. Seinfeld references and all. What was your favorite part about that interview, and what did you glean from the interaction?
I just think it was great to have a chance to sit down and talk to him for 10 or 15 minutes, and You know, it's just further confirmation that he gets it, he understands how it works. And I suspected that the whole Packers thing was him being the guy that the fans want him to be. If you're going to be the head coach of the Bears, you're going to hate the Green Bay Packers. And in his mind, if you're the head coach of the Green Bay Packers, you've got to hate the Bears. The Bears and the Packers don't like each other. He's fully in on what his role is, and fans love that. We see so much nowadays, especially as – The coaching profession, which you land wherever the job is, you're not loyal to any one team.
You're taking the paycheck. You want to coach, and the players go from team to team. Now, it's not like it was back in the 70s and 80s where you played for one team your whole career. Fans love a little of that good old-fashioned animosity that they feel toward their rivals. So he's smart to be that way.
What insights does Mike Florio provide about the Bears' rivalry with the Packers?
Now, he may have some damage to undo at some point if he's ever looking for a job, But he's good enough that he's not going to be looking for a job. It's going to be the other coaches out there that are calling him, looking for jobs when their runs end with some of the teams that Ben's going to be beaten up on over the years.
Well, and Mike, one of the things that we were talking about when we heard his discussion with you was – Just even based on the cadence of the responses, this doesn't sound manufactured. That sounded fairly genuine when it came to just how he replied to you. You know, what were your impressions of the authenticity behind that emotion?
Yeah, I mean, I'd like to think after 19 years of practice law, I'm pretty good at smoking out when someone's full of crap. And he does seem genuine. He's very confident. One of the points I was trying to make with him, I just feel like that the first year for Ben Johnson in Chicago was vindication of what he has always believed, that he's got a strong confidence that isn't delusional, and that what happened last year was a manifestation of exactly what he thought would happen when he finally became a head coach. Remember, the window had opened for him a year earlier. He deliberately decided to wait. That's got to be very difficult for coaches to do because they know that that window opens and it and it may close and never open again.
So he waited, and the window stayed open, and he landed in a great spot, and it went perfectly well, and I feel like it's just going to continue on that trajectory. And yes, the season ended in a disappointing way, but the arrow's pointing up, and I just love the confidence. I love what they've done. I love what he's done with Caleb Williams, and it just feels like, And it kind of oozes out of him that last year was last year and everything's going to keep moving in the right direction.
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