Let me be clearer then and provide context: He's one of the rumor people that routinely gets shit on here. One of the things I hear is how they don't ever actually own what they say and just move on to the next rumor.
This guy is staking his reputation, saying it before anyone else is (not that the Bears are interested - that BEN JOHNSON WILL BE A BEAR), and if he's wrong, basically he's sunk and out of the rumor mill rotation. He's done.
He effectively is staking his role in the rumor mill on Ben to the Bears, knowing he's toast if that doesn't end up the case.
So yeah, in a business where you DO see a lot of people move on from bad takes and wrong predictions like they never happened (NFL Notifications on Twitter is a GREAT example of this), I do kind of admire someone willing to put their reputation on the line that a rumor is legit.