Ryan Poles shares what has surprised him the most about Ben Johnson

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00:00What has surprised you the most about Ben Johnson, the head coach?

00:05Yeah, so one, I knew the intelligence was very high.

00:12I knew from, you know, obviously playing them when he was calling it

00:17that from a scheme standpoint, he was very good.

00:23Gave me vibes of what we had in Kansas City.

00:26And he was able to get players in positions to be successful,

00:31but also to attack pressure points on the opposing defense.

00:36So I knew that that part was there.

00:38I had very little questions about that.

00:40I think anytime you're hiring someone, it's like,

00:42how are they in front of the room?

00:44How are they in stressful situations?

00:47What's the overall day-to-day operation look like in terms of motivating the guys

00:52and then staff?

00:54And he's knocked all of those out of the park.

00:56In front of the room, he's incredible.

00:59Very thoughtful in how he approaches the team.

01:01And the guys respond to it.

01:04The intensity has been high.

01:06I knew he was an intense guy, but it's sky high.

01:09And it's because he cares.

01:10The passion level is off the charts.

01:14And the guys respond to that really well, which has been really cool to see.

01:17And they trust him.

01:18We had that added practice.

01:20Everybody was talking about how physical it was.

01:22And I said, man, you know what?

01:26This tells me that this team trusts you because not a lot of teams are doing that anymore.

01:32Practices aren't that physical.

01:34But they believe in you.

01:35When you said, hey, we need to do this in order to take the next step,

01:38to be a physical football team that's going to allow us to win

01:41and also be resilient when we get into the season.

01:44And they didn't think twice about it.

01:47They did it.

01:47And that was a huge sign for me.