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On her latest Making Monsters podcast on our 2nd City Gridiron channels, Taylor Doll is joined by Mike Golic Jr. from the FanDuel Sports Network, who just made the rounds at several NFL training camps around the country. For his visit with the Chicago Bears, Golic sat down with Charles Tillman to interview Kyler Gordon, Colston Loveland, and DJ Moore. So, Taylor and Mike get into the specifics of those discussions, but also delve into the mindset of Ben Johnson and Dennis Allen, plus they go over some expectations for this season.
Taylor asked Mike if he got the sense that the entire franchise has 100% bought into the vision for Johnson’s offense with Caleb Williams and where it can go.
“Yeah, I think they see that passion that you talked about, like approaching it as a professional the way he has, definitely has stuck out to everybody there,” Golic said about Williams. “And that’s the tone that you set, whether you’re a vocal or a leader by example, that’s what people want to see from that position, because right, wrong, or indifferent, we know the cache it has and the importance it has to the team. So I thought the sentiment was overwhelmingly positive around Caleb.”
“I think the one thing that also really stuck out to people was the way Ben holds Caleb accountable, sends a message to everybody else that anyone can get it. Like it’s the old Patriots Bill Belichick thing, where we saw eventually that frayed the relationship a little bit, but the Patriot dynasty was built on the fact that Bill was going to dog cuss Tom [Brady] the same way he was going to dog cuss everybody else. And if you’re Caleb Williams and you can get thrown out of the huddle for making repeat mistakes by Ben Johnson the same way everyone else can, it sets the tone for the entire camp.”
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