The Lions didn’t start yesterdays game well at all. It looked like the Bears defense had their number. But despite the fact that we forced 3 turnovers on them, they scored 29 offensive points.
Johnson was able to play call 4 drives that went for touchdowns, and of those 4 3 of them happening in less than 180 seconds. That’s crazy to think of.
The Bears should hire him and let him decide if he wants to keep fields or get a different QB. He knows more about football than anyone in this sub.
Do we know if he’s good at leading a full team though? I’d prefer to hire someone that has had previous head coaching experience.
#1 Eric Bienemy #2 Harbaugh #3 Ben J
No thanks. Tired of the hot coordinator 1st time head coaches. Been there done that
Getting dominated by us for 55 minutes isn’t that inspiring
Overall I wouldn’t disagree but weird timing for this post, our mediocre at best defense dominated Detroit outside of the last two drives when we were foolishly playing prevent D
Ben Johnson didn’t call for goff to throw all those ints
Would love to have him. Will be interesting to see if the organization wants more of an experienced hire though after two 1st time HCs
Ben Johnson would feast with an offense of Fields, Moore, MHJ, Scott, Herbert, Roshon, Kmet
foreman is better than herbert
Hate to break it to you guys but he won’t be staying in the division
After yesterday’s game?
Bro was the #1 target last offseason. He turned down HC interviews last year. We are SUPREMELY lucky he did that to let us get a chance at snagging him.
It’s his offense. Campbell isn’t pulling the strings like Reid for Nagy. It’s Johnson’s offense and he’s innovating his offense to keep it fresh while teams have tape (see Trestman/Nagy not doing that and getting figured out).
He’s legit. The question of him as a HC, is can he hire a competent staff. That’s what can set him apart. Just hand him a blank check and hope he figures that part out
Realistically, Ben Johnson will probably coach the Chargers or the Bills next year. Unless the bolts do something stupid like hire belichick and bills retain Mcdermit.
The Bears hopefully will be the second or third best job open.
- Bills (if they lose in the divisional round).
- Chargers - proven franchise qb and lots of pieces.
- Bears - QB and two high draft picks. Need to build the lines.
- Panthers - might have a QB in place, basically need everything else on offense.
- Commanders - feels like a rebuild is needed but coaches are propping them up as much as they can.
- Raiders - total rebuild.
- Patriots - total rebuild.
Wild card head coach firings Bucs or Titans.
Keep in mind lions will be a playoff team so bears will need to wait. If the bears miss out on Johnson then Bobby Slowik is a really interesting candidate who is from the Shanahan tree. Both of these guys have demonstrated so far the got the offense to players they have in place.
Bears can also look at Kellan Moore (yuck), Jim Harbaugh (yawn and not really an offensive guru), Brian Johnson of the eagles (hasn’t put his mark on the eagles imo), Eric Bieniemy (Poles wouldn’t even interview him two years ago, so something major would have to change).
Dude made Goof look good, I’m fully on board.
NO! STOP FUCKING GIVING UNPROVENS HC POSITIONS AFTER ONE GOOD YEAR FFS!
Rivera will be available as well.
Number 1 target should always be Jim Harbaugh until he says no. I honestly think this team, really this entire organization, needs leadership.
He’s turned programs around and succeeded. His players believe in him wholeheartedly, and they believe in each other — that’s examples of real leadership. He understands the rivalry with the Packers, but more importantly, he understands the position and what it would take to get it right HERE, where he played.
Hiring Jim Harbaugh, at least going after him intensely, would convince me this organization knows what needs to be done to move out of the basement of the NFL.
Hiring another flavor-of-the-week “genius” coach tells me they’re grasping at straws, hoping something works. We just tried it with Luke Getsy, we tried it with Matt Nagy, we tried it with Dowell Loggains, we tried it with Adam Gase, we tried it with Marc Trestman.
We really need to stop hiring first time head coaches and maybe get someone who has done the job before.
There’s a snowball’s chance in hell the Bears are going to compete for Ben Johnson. Chargers, Bills, Pats, Falcons, and any other HC needy team will throw Gruden levels of cash at him, the Bears won’t. I wouldn’t be shocked at all to see Ron Rivera and some “up and coming” young OC. Have to keep the dream of 85’ going a couple of more years.
I don’t think they’ll hire Rivera because the one predictable thing about the Bears HC hiring is they go for the opposite kind of guy as their last hire. Alternated offense/defense each time back to Lovie, and relatedly alternate supposedly innovative with old school guys, which generally means alternating young/old as well.