Last April the Chicago Bears took the top quarterback projected to go number one in the draft by taking Caleb Williams. How did that work out so far? Jayden Daniels who was selected number two overall in last year’s NFL draft, right now has the Commanders in the NFC Championship. The Bears had another disastrous season finishing 5-12 for the year and fired their head coach after the bad turkey day game against the Lions on Thanksgiving. Since the firing of Matt Eberflus, the Bears have conducted 17 interviews with all sorts of candidates. Big names with experience that have won a Superbowl. Up and coming college coaches that made their own splash this season. Many assistants. They even gave their interim coach Thomas Brown an interview. The Lions lost to the Commanders on Saturday night and Ben Johnson became the guy as the Bears did something they normally do not and paid him the big bucks to come to Chicago and keep the hottest assistant from going to the Raiders or the Jaguars. The Bears are paying a rookie head coach 13 million per season which is the 7th highest in the NFL from the 2024 season.

Who is Ben Johnson and why is he that hot shot coordinator every team wants? Every team in the NFL is looking for the next young mastermind on the offensive side of the ball like Sean McVay of the Rams to help their team light up the score board. Johnson is only 38 years old and looks like he just came from the dorm room pulling an all-nighter playing John Madden football with his frat buddies. Johnson’s first coaching job was at Boston College from 2009-11 as a tight ends coach. Then the Dolphins brought on Johnson to their team from 2012-18 as he held various roles and eventually worked with Dan Campbell who was the Dolphins tight end coach as he was promoted to the interim coach in 2015. Johnson worked as offensive assistant, quarterbacks coach assistant, tight end coach assistant, and wide receivers coach assistant until he was promoted to wide receiver coach. In 2019 he came to Detroit with Campbell as he took the Lions head coaching job. Before being promoted to the offensive coordinator Johnson served a few roles as the offensive quality coach, tight ends coach, then passing game coordinator. Then in 2022 Johnson became the man calling the plays. He turned Jared Goff into a stud quarterback. The Lions offense roared and finished the top 5 in points and total yards for the last three seasons. The Lions have been to the playoffs the last two seasons and Johnson has been a part of the two wins and two losses. The last one definitely hurt as the Lions were the number one seed in the NFC, had a first round bye, and were upset by the Commanders.

The Bears have not found an even decent coach to replace Lovie Smith, who they fired years ago. The Bears have gone cheap with their hires by hiring buffoon after buffoon like Marc Trestman, Matt Nagy, and Matt Eberflus. All three guys that had assistant jobs in the NFL but never had a head coaching job. None of those guys were the top assistants at the time. None of those guys were young guys like a Ben Johnson. The Bears went differently than they normally do by shelling out the big bucks to get the young bright mind to become the franchise’s 19th head coach. However the Bears went with their normal recipe in hiring a guy without any head coaching experience which could bite them on the rear. This is a Bears franchise that is treading water right now after their 4th straight losing season. Many thought they had the perfect off-season with the free agents they signed and how they drafted Caleb Williams. The same thing that bites this Bears franchise every year. The lack of an offensive line. Then the head coach. The Raiders made an offer to Johnson. He must have done something incredible that made Tom Brady like him as he is part owner of the Vegas Raiders. They say that Jaguars owner Shad Khan wanted Johnson as well. He is brain dead when it comes to football in general. Ryan Poles, the Bears General Manager, wants the top of the line in everything as he drafted Caleb Williams and now got the top assistant out there. The interviews Johnson had must have impressed the Bears president Kevin Warren who convinced the cheap fucks to pay up. The McCaskey family are one of those cheap many owners we have in Chicago unfortunately running our sports teams.

Now Ben Johnson will be making one million more than John Harbaugh of the Baltimore Ravens. He will also be only one million behind Kyle Shanahan of the San Francisco 49ers. My feeling is Johnson played this perfect. He reminds me of Sly Stallone with that first Rocky movie script. Hollywood wanted to buy it from him but did not want him to act in the movie. Stallone waited until his opportunity came along and got what he wanted. For Johnson he could have taken a job last year as a head coach. He would only interview with a team if he really wanted to be there. I think Caleb Williams is the biggest reason why he is here. The Bears have cap space. They have play makers. They have a solid defense. Johnson even has landed a new defensive coordinator former Saints head coach Dennis Allen. Allen is a great D-coordinator but a bad head coach. The Bears mean he’ll have another top ten draft pick coming up in April. Signing Johnson may also weaken the Lions in the future. Tell me if you have heard this story before about suddenly everything is working out for the Bears?

You know everything the Bears touch turns into a dumpster fire. This is the franchise that has not won the Superbowl since 1985. The last time the Bears had a franchise quarterback you have to back to the 1940’s when Sid Luckman was behind center. The Bears drafted Mitch Trubisky instead of Patrick Mahomes. Caleb Williams did some nice things last year. Jayden Daniels has done better things. Even Bo Nix has been better than Williams, another quarterback drafted in the first round. Nix had the Broncos in the playoffs. What if Ben Johnson turns into Josh McDaniels? Yes I said it. McDaniels was that hot offensive coordinator for the Patriots for years. Then he took the Broncos job. Which he knew Jay Cutler was a bum right away. He still flopped in Denver. Then he took another head coaching job for the Raiders which was another belly flop. Johnson can call a great offense. Maybe the QB whisperer Williams needed. The experience of never being the head coach, you have to be worried. I wouldn’t have minded like Jon Gruden or even a Mike McCarthy – guys with experience that could also develop Williams. Pete Carol, I did like that idea. The age gap there between quarterback and head coach may have not worked out. The Bears ownership usually likes yes men over guys who will come in and do it their way. Hope Johnson is not like that. He will need an offensive line which I hope he remembers what that looks like. Because the Lions had one of the best in the league. This looks great on paper. The Bears got the top QB in the draft and now have the brightest young mind available to mold their Quarterback. This is the Bears so most likely something will go wrong with this signing.