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Jason Lieser: Reaching playoffs is a fair expectation for Ben Johnson, Bears in 2025
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2/18/2025
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I want to bring it back to you on how much runway Ben Johnson should have.
00:06
I mean, you kind of said that it should be built, so should there be, because we sort
00:10
of touched on this, should there be, Jason, an expectation that the Bears are a playoff
00:16
team this upcoming season?
00:19
I think there should be, because I think if Ben Johnson is ready for this job, which everybody,
00:25
including him, believes that he is, he's going to have a roster that has the potential
00:32
to be a playoff roster in 2025.
00:36
They still have a lot of work to do.
00:37
I mean, they still have all of free agency and the draft, and they're going to have their
00:43
shopping list dictated largely by him, I think, by what he sees, especially on offense, that
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he needs.
00:50
Yeah.
00:51
Yeah.
00:53
It's year one of Ben Johnson, but it's year four of trying to rebuild the Bears.
00:57
I mean, it started with the total teardown in that first year, which was really necessary
01:03
after going all out to go six and 11 and not having any draft capital, any salary cap space,
01:09
any of that to build with.
01:10
They should have had the number five pick that first year of Ryan Pohl's administration,
01:15
and they didn't.
01:16
It takes a while to build up from zero like that, but four years, I mean, you don't get
01:21
forever.
01:22
You want to do it smart.
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You want to do it very practically and sustainably, like Ryan Pohl's always talks about, but you
01:29
don't just get this endless rebuild.
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This roster should have been ready this past year, definitely needs to be ready this year,
01:36
and Ben Johnson should be ready to step into that role of coaching a playoff team.
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