Holmes loves how the Ben Johnson-Ryan Poles partnership is working

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00:00Because you were thinking and feeling a certain way about everything as it was crossing yesterday.

00:04I felt like, Speigs, that what we saw yesterday, I think is a really good thing.

00:10And for those who had questions about it, Ben Johnson is as involved as any head coach

00:18in the league with the personnel decisions that are being made.

00:22And guess what?

00:23I'm good with it.

00:25I like this.

00:26I'm glad that Ryan Poles has a partner.

00:30And that's why I'm going to keep talking about them.

00:33This feels like a partnership.

00:36And it feels like Ryan Poles listening to his partner and saying, okay, let's go get

00:42you the things that you need.

00:44You want these dirty, down in the dirt type players?

00:48Tough, gritty, dirty, and smart.

00:51Let's go get some of those.

00:53What characterizes that for you?

00:56And then Ben Johnson will tell them, these are the type of players that I like, including

01:00a player that he used to coach.

01:02And then you see the momentum that's built up from that.

01:07I love it.

01:08I love that the head coach of the Bears is not in the background.

01:13And that's what's been going on for the last three years.

01:16You have a guy that's just kind of, here are the raw materials, do what you can.

01:21This makes more sense.

01:24That's not the way it's supposed to go.

01:26And that's what we saw over the last three years, especially once they kind of emerged

01:31from the changeover of the roster and you had last year, and that's the year that the

01:37coach is supposed to impart his vision.

01:41You're supposed to be seeing his idea of how he wants them to play, and we never got away

01:47from it.

01:48We never got away from just a guy trying to flail with whatever Ryan Poles gave him.

01:53This is how it's actually supposed to work, especially in the NFL, but really in lots

01:59of sports.