Mike Florio

And I suspected that the whole Packers thing was him being the guy that the fans want him to be.

If you're going to be the head coach of the Bears, you're going to hate the Green Bay Packers.

And in his mind, if you're the head coach of the Green Bay Packers, you've got to hate the Bears.

The Bears and the Packers don't like each other.

He's fully in on what his role is, and fans love that.

We see so much nowadays, especially as –

The coaching profession, which you land wherever the job is, you're not loyal to any one team.

You're taking the paycheck.

You want to coach, and the players go from team to team.

Now, it's not like it was back in the 70s and 80s where you played for one team your whole career.

Fans love a little of that good old-fashioned animosity that they feel toward their rivals.

So he's smart to be that way.

Now, he may have some damage to undo at some point if he's ever looking for a job,

But he's good enough that he's not going to be looking for a job.

It's going to be the other coaches out there that are calling him, looking for jobs when their runs end with some of the teams that Ben's going to be beaten up on over the years.

Yeah, I mean, I'd like to think after 19 years of practice law, I'm pretty good at smoking out when someone's full of crap.

And he does seem genuine.

He's very confident.

One of the points I was trying to make with him, I just feel like that

the first year for Ben Johnson in Chicago was vindication of what he has always believed, that he's got a strong confidence that isn't delusional, and that what happened last year was a manifestation of exactly what he thought would happen when he finally became a head coach.