Mike Florio

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.

Remember, the window had opened for him a year earlier.

He deliberately decided to wait.

That's got to be very difficult for coaches to do because they know that that window opens and it

and it may close and never open again.

So he waited, and the window stayed open, and he landed in a great spot, and it went perfectly well, and I feel like it's just going to continue on that trajectory.

And yes, the season ended in a disappointing way, but the arrow's pointing up, and I just love the confidence.

I love what they've done.

I love what he's done with Caleb Williams, and it just feels like,

And it kind of oozes out of him that last year was last year and everything's going to keep moving in the right direction.

That's what makes it so hilarious.