Bears Nation was not psyched when the team inked Matt Eberflus as their head coach. Same deal with Matt Nagy, John Fox, and Marc Trestman. They were kinda-sorta happy when Lovie Smith was brought into the fold, but that was mostly due to the fact that Smith was replacing the justifiably maligned Dick Jauron.
The Bears hired Johnson, 38, after three seasons as offensive coordinator for the Lions. In his first season, he helped them jump from 25th to fifth in scoring, then they finished fifth last season and led the NFL with 33.2 points per game this season.
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CHICAGO - The Chicago Bears officially announced Ben Johnson as the team's head coach on Tuesday. Johnson, 38, is the 19th head coach in the franchise's 105-year history. Johnson has served as the Detroit Lions offensive coordinator since 2022.
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Chicago has hired Detroit Lions OC Ben Johnson to be their next head coach. The toughest division in the NFL could get even more competitive.
Unfortunately, the coaching situation was far worse than anyone could have imagined, and the Bears fired two coaches, Eberflus and offensive coordinator Shane Waldron, over the course of just 17 days.
The latest example was Sunday in the 27-25 loss to the 14-2 Minnesota Vikings, the Packers' second defeat by two points to their NFC North rivals. Numbers have some fans defeated before January.
Las Vegas parted ways with the first-year coach-GM tandem of Antonio Pierce and Tom Telesco earlier this month, and the “allure” of Brady, a seven-time Super Bowl champion, was said to have helped the Raiders become an enticing option for Johnson, 38.
The Bears appear to be the big winner of the NFL coaching carousel with the Ben Johnson hire. But who knows what Chicago's actually getting?