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Right, the reason I'm more confident is because the general ether love Ben Johnson, not that the bears picked him out of a lineup. Nothing works out until it works out (buffalo, detroit, etc), but boy Johnson sure felt like the biggest coordinator hire since Shanahan. But...some may say Daboll. You never know, but I think other stuff sunk Daboll anyway.

Correct, absolutely. Now actually draft ?

I'm gonna kinda say...good job Warren? We went from people calling him an empty suit, to someone over-meddling in football business, to landing the top HC candidate and getting George to certainly pay him near Reid money. He's gonna be paid a ton.

Absolutely huge news. Great job bears on closing.

Everything today has felt a little bit better but we’ll see.

That could sound convincing to yourself, but Ben Johnson has made his career off Jared Goff and may not have same opinions on what’s possible with certain QBs. Brady could say they have $100 mill in cap, they’ll get darnold and draft Jeanty

Vikings? Why do we think Ben Johnson would be intimidated by going with darnold (or trading for JJ)

Maybe that’s true. I’ll continue to argue that Caleb’s year this year would have been Daniel’s first at LSU. But Daniels built in Lamar like rushing alongside his perfect deep ball were two things Caleb very much didn’t have and it would have made our offense better this year. Kliff meanwhile was the perfect hire. bears always make the wrong decision, I can’t defend them anymore. Caleb can still be great, but odds of that tanked when George mccaskey came within 100 yards of him

He doesn’t know either but he’s excited

This post is such a tell. Please try to back it up at all that there were posters mourning the loss of Paddy.

100% Please with the activity splurge we've been seeing in regards to keller. May not lead to anything, but the complete passiveness under Paddy was maddening.

I think with a different org it would be like "eh, new rules its hard to decide quick, may as well interview guys as favors/info gathering" With bears it feels like they inflexibly rely on structure to provide the look of credibility. If they were meeting a bunch but were like "there is a LOT of smoke around bears going all out for johnson", then it would be different. But feels like mccarthy and others could go off the board and bears would be like "well we have to do our round 3s according to our schedule"

Ah, sorry I thought he switched TO Armstrong. Schefter, who is great because he is telling me what I want to hear:

I kinda wonder if this is actually a meaningful bomb thrown into the process that could change how George operates. (Ben Johnson is not a trace client)

yeah chalk that up to youthful memory, he was much better than I realized. I think where I was at the time Parcells and Gibbs at that time seemed underwhelming what they were doing in dallas/washington because it was super hyped maybe? It's hard to remember years now. Well I have a new favorite reporter, killer work here: https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/43439332/nfl-coaching-carousel-2025-agents-package-deals-consultants-goodell-concern

I think for Flores to get an HC gig, he'd need to go to college and end up having a college QB that is a big time recruit and leaves advocating that Flores was completely different with him, as well as his assistants. It sucks but that Fitzgerald thing is just so similar to what it sounded like with Patricia, except clearly Flores is a way better coach in every other way.

well s%*#, I take that back I did NOT remember he made the playoffs 2 out of 4 years which was definitely one of the best runs in the Snyder era.

I'd say the parallel for TLR was the Joe Gibbs return to Washington.

Said it before but he’d be the exact same role Johnson just saw help turn around Detroit in Spielman. He’s a former player with no explicit role who just makes sure good football people are there

good news everyone, I talked myself into Todd Monken numero uno. Ben Johnson can't hurt me.

this guy has been pulling a lot of social weight this offseason...always seemed like more of a draft guy. That said that's just so horrifying to read. I sure would like that GM who led the commanders FA run that led to a bunch of productive players over ryan poles who gave a bunch of money to Gerald Everett. there's just no way for me to exist in all of this without being just so so mad lol

NFL moves so fast though. Last year we all thought the bears roster was miles better than the Commanders, and now...

I would say that getting some guy to get on your page who may not want to be on your page has got to be like an A1 skill for a good coach. However my true A1 is just finding a coach that can give us an edge in playcalling/offensive strategy so we are finally not on backfoot.

I feel like it'll be like Drew Pentzig. I don't think they'd go for rivera but I'm terrified it will be David Shaw. Maybe that dude could get great assistants, but i unno. Monken is definitely the most interesting to me because I can't figure out why I don't like him more, but I think a lot of it has to do with Daboll. But that's pretty dangerous because coach resumes do not equal much when comparing them. But he reminds me a little bit of an offensive 'fangio' if that makes sense. Then again - feels like you look at a Fangio era broncos and are like "they expected him to make the playoffs with drew lock and trevor semien?" Poor guy.

I feel like at the end we'll be sad we didn't get mccarthy 🫥