The Bears\u2019 official depth chart lists four different players as the co-No. 1 left tackles. Bears left guard Joe Thuney would like to know which one will actually be next to him when the Bears start the regular season.<\/p>\n
Bears head coach Ben Johnson acknowledged that it\u2019s tough on Thuney that he doesn\u2019t know which of the four candidates \u2014 Braxton Jones, Jedrick Wills, Kiran Amegadjie and Ozzy Trapilo \u2014 he\u2019s going to be working with on September 13 against the Panthers.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think Joe would like some clarity on who he can build a rapport with,\u201d Johnson said. \u201cIt\u2019s been a little bit of a revolving door. He\u2019s a pro\u2019s pro and he\u2019s willing to do everything, but you want five guys playing as one. We\u2019ll go as long as we need to to figure out who those five are, but at the same time, the sooner we can make that decision, the sooner they can jell as a unit as well. Last year it took us until the bye week before we started clicking as an offensive line and the run game came alive the way we wanted. I think he\u2019s doing a great job. The communication is a huge piece of it.\u201d<\/p>\n
Asked if Thuney has any say in who the starting left tackle will be, Johnson said that the only determining factor will be which one of them puts together the best tape in training camp and the preseason.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe judge it off the tape,\u201d Johnson said. \u201cThe tape tells us everything we need to know.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Bears\u2019 official depth chart lists four different players as the co-No. 1 left tackles. Bears left guard…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":819017,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":["post-819016","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/819016","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=819016"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/819016\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/819017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=819016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=819016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=819016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}