What words would D'Andre Swift use to describe Ben Johnson?

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What highlights did DeAndre Swift achieve early in the season?

Leila Rahimi 0:01

Rahimian Grody. Middays 10 a.m. to two. On Chicago Sports Radio, 104-3 the score. First and goal with Swift. Nice cutback. Hazalane to the edge. Touchdown. Chicago. Six yards for his sixth rushing touchdown of the year, and it's six-nothing. Bears.

Mark Grote 0:21

Bears. Highlights courtesy, box 32. The runnings of DeAndre Swift as we welcome it back into Rehimian Grody on 104-3. The score. Perfect because that was his, as it was pointed out, his sixth touchdown of the season. He ended up with nine, which was for DeAndre Swift a career high this year. He had nine rushing touchdowns, ten touchdowns altogether, a thousand and eighty-seven yards, Layla. running game and quite frankly a running back that it felt like never was going to get going through the first four games of the season last year, but they figured it out.

Vinny Rotino 0:59

Oh yeah, there's no doubt about that. Ben Solak actually did a great piece about that very thing. The adjustments from the first four weeks to the rest of the season. That's on ESPN. He talked about that, the run game, and brought up I think not just DeAndre Swift, but the whole concept. It's really good read if you want to see it. But you're right, DeAndre Swift had a career year. I think there were times where we thought, Well, you were on a Ben Johnson team that decided to go with Jameer Gibbs. So what was that going to mean for you? And no better way to respond than how he did last season.

Mark Grote 1:30

Yeah, and I think we all sort of got that wrong because and I was one of those that got that wrong. I might have been one of the reporters who asked at Hallis Hall last year, Do you need to bring somebody else in? Is this enough? Is Monunguy enough?

Vinny Rotino 1:43

I absolutely did. Yeah. You weren't the only one on that.

Mark Grote 1:46

Yeah, no, I know. I said I was one of the reporters that probably asked that question. And I even presented that to to Swift last night. I admitted it. So we were all asking what what's going on here? They need to bring somebody in. Um so that's it. He he was with us live at our Take the North live event at uh Gurney Hyundai last night. Um and I asked DeAndre Swift how he would describe

How did Ben Johnson’s coaching style impact Swift’s performance?

Mark Grote 2:10

The head coach Ben Johnson. Nobody knows him better than than you because he obviously played for the man while you were in Detroit. Now in your second year with Ben Johnson as the head coach. We use words like maniacal and crazy in the best possible ways. H are those words accurate and how would you describe your head coach and and moreover, DeAndre, from Offensive coordinator when he had offensive coordinator power. Now he's got head coach power. That's a different kind of maniacal power.

DeAndre Swift 2:43

Power. Yes. You could use a lot of words to describe Ben. Um I would say smart, man. He he's very one of the smartest football minds I've been around. He has a great personality, great character about him. Um he's actually funny. Um when he wants to be. When he wants to be, but uh he knows when to be serious and um and kinda get points across and things like that when we need to hear it. But uh man, he's a great person on and off the field, somebody you can go talk to about life, whatever you need to talk to him about. But uh I love playing for Ben.

Mark Grote 3:10

Yeah, it makes sense. I mean, like if you are a running back for Ben Johnson, you're gonna be featured and you are gonna be circled a lot.

Vinny Rotino 3:20

Well, and I think you're also going to be utilized if you've got other skill sets, which DeAndre Swift has. You know, I the I'm begging for a screen game out of the Bears offense this year. Yeah. Begging. You want to talk about runners balls? Go high percentage. Throw it even with the line of scrimmage first and then build on that later. And we didn't see a lot of that last year. I think there were other objectives, so they decided to focus on those, but I would love to see a well developed running back screen game.

Mark Grote 3:45

Thirty four catches last year for DeAndre Swift, two hundred and ninety nine yards along the way. Let's hear a little bit more from DeAndre Swift and we'll get into a deeper discussion about the running backs room in general for the Bears as DeAndre Swift, like this is the part, continued to discuss Ben Johnson's love for the run game.