Holmes: 'Ben Johnson is out here with his chest out'

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00:00Man, Ben Johnson is out here with his chest out.

00:05He is like, hey, this is what we're doing.

00:08Yeah.

00:09What'd he say?

00:10Tough, gritty, dirty individuals.

00:11That's who we brought in here.

00:13Those were his first words about this.

00:15These signings, tough, gritty, dirty guys to be physical on that offensive line.

00:22He talked about their versatility in that same moment that you're talking about, Lawrence,

00:27his first chance to address this stuff.

00:29And he mentioned the variety of schemes.

00:33He got back to that a little bit later on when he talked about the run game in a way

00:36that really excited me.

00:39But in general, the variety of schemes he's going to run is really exciting.

00:44He also mentioned early on that they have, he has firsthand experience with Jonah Jackson.

00:49Ryan Poles has firsthand experience with Joe Tooney.

00:53That quote about Jonah Jackson, Pro Bowl caliber guard, and that's what we're going to get

00:58out of him.

00:59Ha ha.

01:00Like, get ready, Jonah.

01:01I'm going to get that out of you.

01:02He knows that it didn't go well last year, but he knows that he drives it.

01:07He's a chesty dude.

01:09He's a football coach.

01:11You know, there's a lot of people who worried about Ben Johnson is like, oh man, he's kind

01:14of a nerd.

01:15And he, he, he, he can take a joke about that and he is like, he's, he was also a quarterback.

01:22Yeah.

01:23But he, and he's, he's, he's, he's a science and math guy and he loves analytics and he

01:29also, he was a quarterback, but he, he is a football coach who will be arrogant and

01:36confident with the best of, and you saw it today.

01:38Look, I don't know if any of this relates to the bears winning.

01:42I just know that it's refreshing to not have a coach say to you, well, we're, we'll see.

01:48We'll see.

01:49He has an idea and an identity that he is trying to put together in conjunction with

01:54Ryan Poles on how all this is going to go.

01:57And I appreciate that he's not afraid to share that with you.

02:02It's not giving away scheme to say, Hey, I, I, I want our team to be tough that I'm looking

02:07for these.

02:08I'm looking for guys that can win one-on-one blocks with three tech.

02:12Oh man.