Danny Parkins: 'Bears fans should be thrilled' by Chicago's hiring of Ben Johnson

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00:00It's a new day.

00:02The Bears hired a young offensive coach

00:08that everybody wanted.

00:10They hired a young offensive coach in Matt Nagy

00:13who some people wanted, and I was very high on that hire.

00:17But like I said in Speaks with you,

00:19when it failed, I would have done it again.

00:23Like, the thought process on Matt Nagy was correct.

00:27The results just didn't work.

00:29And so I'm very happy that just because that failed,

00:33the Bears were not afraid to go for the home run hire,

00:37the upside hire, the guy who could develop

00:39and grow with Caleb Williams hire.

00:41Like, the only thing Ben Johnson doesn't have

00:43on his resume is head coaching experience,

00:47but he checks every other box,

00:49including giving yourself a really high ceiling

00:52on the offensive side of the ball.

00:53So I think Bears fans should be thrilled.

00:55And the boxes, Parko, that Nagy was supposed to check,

01:01he actually didn't because as you told us

01:03when you got here, he wasn't the guy calling the plays

01:06except for a few times in his era with Andy Reid.

01:10Yeah, I mean, that's a huge difference, right?

01:12Matt, Ben Johnson, the only thing Ben Johnson doesn't have,

01:17I said head coaching experience,

01:18he also doesn't have, like, he can't say I've done it

01:21with multiple different quarterbacks.

01:24Those coaches don't become available for head coaching gigs.

01:28Like, they are already head coaches.

01:30Kyle Shanahan did it with Matt Ryan in Atlanta

01:34as a coordinator, gets the Niners job,

01:36then he can claim, look, I also won with Jimmy Garoppolo

01:40and Brock Purdy, Andy Reid, Kevin Cobb and Jeff Garcia

01:44and Mike Vick and Alex Smith and Donovan McNabb,

01:47and then obviously Patrick Mahomes.

01:49But in order to have, like, that many pelts on the wall

01:51at quarterback, you have to be a head coach.

01:54Matt LeFleur, Aaron Rodgers, he was declining,

01:57then he wins two MVPs with them,

01:58then Jordan Love looks good, Sean McVay, Jared Goff,

02:02and then Matt Stafford and an excellent play caller

02:05and all that, like, there's not,

02:06the guys who have multiple quarterbacks on the wall

02:09as success stories, the only way you get there

02:11is by being a head coach.

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