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Chicago Is Playing Us For Ben Johnson
WXYT-FM / 97.1 The Ticket
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12/20/2024
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There's a lot on the line short-term, and I think pretty much everybody knows it.
00:05
They've got to right the ship, they've got to respond, they've got to answer the bell, all that stuff.
00:10
And they haven't lost two in a row in over two seasons here, and it's been a great run.
00:16
It's the longest stretch of any team in the NFL without losing two in a row.
00:22
And then there's the division, keeping Minnesota behind them in the division.
00:28
There's the number one seed, there's all that stuff on the line.
00:33
But there's also the long-term.
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And here is the long-term.
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Paying attention to Chicago, paying attention to the Bears,
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paying attention to where that organization is.
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You know what's super popular amongst Bears fans right now?
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I should say, you know who is super popular amongst Bears fans right now?
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Our offensive coordinator Ben Johnson.
01:04
I would imagine, and I don't have my finger on the pulse of all of what's being said and
01:09
talked about in Chicago, but it sounds to me, my instinct and the feedback that I have gotten and
01:16
what I've seen, the number one candidate to become the Bears head coach, according to the fans,
01:22
is Detroit Lions offensive coordinator Ben Johnson.
01:27
And now the Lions come in after Matt Eber-Fluess has been fired,
01:33
and whose skill set are they going to be watching on the other side more than anybody else?
01:40
It's going to be Ben Johnson.
01:42
You know that the fans will have Ben Johnson signs.
01:48
I would, I'm going to almost, I'm not going to shoot the boot guarantee it because I don't want
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to, but if I were, it would be that on the broadcast on Sunday, we will see a sign courting
02:00
Ben Johnson. You know what? F it. I'll shoot the boot guarantee it. Yeah, man, that's a layup.
02:05
Come on. Yeah. Good job, Doug. Proud of you, man. But right, is there any chance they're not
02:11
going to have a Ben Johnson for Bears coach? Come save us, Ben Johnson. I've seen that
02:15
stuff watching the Bears play and they're not playing the Lions. They want Ben Johnson.
02:23
And if the Lions offense puts on a show on Sunday,
02:27
the pressure builds on the Bears organization to hire him.
02:34
Now that doesn't mean I don't want the Lions offense to click on all cylinders. I want them
02:38
to put up 45, but remember there's two sides to this coin and this might be the more important
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thing. The Lions can do their organization a ton of good. They can basically make a case
02:57
to eliminate the Bears from being a possible landing spot for Ben Johnson.
03:03
What do we keep hearing about Ben Johnson? He only would leave for the perfect situation.
03:10
And if the Detroit Lions take a skeleton crew defensively into Chicago and use two,
03:22
might be three. I know there's two bear castoffs on their defense,
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guys like Kendall Vildor and El-Khadim Mohamed.
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If they take bear castoffs and a skeleton crew of defenders and make Caleb Williams look bad
03:41
right in front of Ben Johnson's eyes,
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who'll be witnessing it. Would that look like a perfect job? Wait a sec. It's Ben Johnson.
03:51
He's sitting there watching the game and he's doing his job. But if the Lions skeleton defense
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defense can shut down Caleb Williams, will that look like the perfect situation?
04:06
No. So if the Lions go into Chicago and this is where they really can do themselves a favor long
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term and shut down the Bears offense, I don't think there's a chance in hell Ben Johnson will
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say, yeah, that's where I want to be. Ben Johnson knows what's going on in the defensive side of the
04:28
ball. Ben Johnson knows how challenging it is. He feels the pressure to score every drive.
04:35
I mean, they'll talk about it in very professional terms, but the path to victory,
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you don't have to be Vince Lombardi to figure it out that the Lions are going to have to get
04:48
into those proverbial outscore you shootouts and hope if the defense performs at all,
04:57
the Lions will be in great shape. But short term, it's important to win the game Sunday.
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Long term, it's important for the Lions defense. These guys, these David Longs of the world,
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these Jamal Adams, Miles Adams, it's important for these guys
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to shut down Caleb Williams to show Ben Johnson this is not the job you're looking for.
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That's my theory. Hey, it's your theory, Doug. You know, you can subscribe to it. Yep. I don't
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because I don't think it's really necessarily on the field that he's looking for the perfect
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situation. I think it's off the field that Ben Johnson is looking for the perfect situation.
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Ben Johnson comes from Detroit. He knows what a bad situation is on the field. He knows how bad
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it can be from starting, what, 3-13 and moving forward. He knows. I think he's willing to put
06:01
in the work to build a team up to where they should be, like where the Lions are right now.
06:05
I think the perfect situation Ben Johnson is quote unquote looking for is
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the president, the GM. What's going on there? He sees the relationship that Dan Campbell and Brad
06:15
Holmes have. I think he wants that if he's going to leave Detroit. He wants to be in sync with what
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they're trying to build, the players they're trying to draft, the character, the culture,
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all that. So to me, Doug, it's not like if they beat the Bears, whatever, he doesn't want to go
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there. I think it's just the front office. And I think the front office of the Chicago Bears is in
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complete disarray. They don't know what they're doing. And for that reason, I don't think Ben
06:39
Johnson's going to Chicago. I guess I interpret the term perfect to be all things considered,
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and that's on the field and off the field. If Caleb Williams has a great game, I think it
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could be more enticing to Ben Johnson. Now, it's not like he doesn't see the other games,
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but if he does not have a great game against this defense, I think Ben Johnson comes away
07:03
from Chicago, and I don't want any part of that mess. Now, I think it's off the field stuff,
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front office, scouts, everything. I think that's all part of it. Yeah, I think it's all part of it.
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But I want them to shut down Caleb Williams and make this Bear job look as unattractive as it can
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possibly look. Now, it's funny because you brought up the Kyle Shanahan, trading for Kyle Shanahan.
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That's a job that I think might look very attractive to a Ben Johnson.
07:36
The Niners, you mean? Yeah.
07:38
For some reason, Kyle Shanahan went to get traded or something?
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Yep. Yeah. I think he's going to be...
07:45
Listen, for any job opening, they're going to come after Ben Johnson. And the thing is, Ben
07:49
right now has earned the right to pick and choose what interviews he wants to even take.
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Here's something else that I don't even want to really talk about, but I do believe it matters.
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I think one of the reasons why Ben Johnson took his name out of the running for jobs last year
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is because Ben Johnson wants to win a Super Bowl and wants to win a Super Bowl with this crew and
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thinks he can win a Super Bowl with this crew and thinks they will win a Super Bowl. If all the
08:15
injuries are too much, I mean, it's going to absolutely suck if there are too much. But does
08:21
that entice Ben Johnson to come back again and say, I didn't finish the job? That was cited to
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me as one of the reasons why he was like, I want to finish this job. And I think he said as much,
08:36
but if the injuries... The worst case scenario is, of course, they are too much, they don't win the
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Super Bowl, and they lose Ben Johnson. The middle scenario is, okay, they are too much,
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and it is going to suck. It's not probably even middle, but they are too much. They don't win,
08:54
but they keep Ben Johnson. Then there's win the Super Bowl, lose Ben Johnson. Then there's win
09:00
the Super Bowl, keep Ben Johnson. We can do the same thing for Aaron Glenn. I haven't heard Aaron
09:04
Glenn's name associated with the Bears. That's why we didn't do it. But there's four things that can
09:09
play itself out. Not win the Super Bowl, lose Ben Johnson. Not win the Super Bowl, keep Ben
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Johnson. Win the Super Bowl, lose Ben Johnson. Win the Super Bowl, keep Ben Johnson.
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I mean, of course, the perfect scenario is the last one. You win the Super Bowl,
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you keep Ben Johnson. In the parade or whatever they're doing at the podium,
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and he just says, F it, I'm coming back. We're going for two, right? Ben Johnson,
09:34
you guys like going for two? Well, guess what? We're going for two Super Bowls.
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And that's the perfect dream scenario. Look at you. Look at you.
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