Bears' HC Ben Johnson and QB Caleb Williams have already started the trash talk with Lions' WR Amon-Ra St. Brown
When the Chicago Bears made the swift move to hire former Detroit Lions' offensive coordinator Ben Johnson as the team's next head coach, you knew there would be even more bad blood between the division rivals.For starters, the Lions need to grow up. I get they haven't had a top candidate leave to become a […]
When the Chicago Bears made the swift move to hire former Detroit Lions' offensive coordinator Ben Johnson as the team's next head coach, you knew there would be even more bad blood between the division rivals.
For starters, the Lions need to grow up. I get they haven't had a top candidate leave to become a head coach in years but come on, there's no need to bash the guy for taking a promotion with a team he wanted to be with.
Johnson himself stated upon arriving to the team facilities that "this is exactly where we wanted to be." People should be happy for him, but I get it, division rivals and all.
The best part is that Johnson knows what comes with taking this job in Chicago. He added that it's going to be a challenge leading the Bears and competing in the NFC North, a division is former team has won each of the last two seasons.
But, he's not backing down from the challenge and he's already let some of his former players in Detroit know it.
"We had some banter back and forth messing around, but I think he's obviously excited for the opportunity," Lions' wide receiver Amon-Ra St. Brown said on his podcast. "They got a pretty good team. I told him, 'for two times a year Ben, we're going to f*** you up' and he goes 'I'm gonna f*** you up.' I said, 'okay we'll see'."
For Bears' fans, that kind of confidence and trash talk from your new head coach you fire you up going into the 2025 season and Johnson isn't the only one getting started with the smack talk against the Lions.
On a previous podcast with the St. Brown brothers, quarterback Caleb Williams dished out some trash talk of his own.
"I'll see you next year," Williams said to the Lions' wide receiver. "You got us for sure [in 2024], but you got a long contract don't you? You just got an extension? You'll be there for a while."
All this talk is definitely setting up the next two games between the Bears and Lions for must-see TV, especially when Johnson returns to Detroit and faces his former team on the road.
In all seriousness, St. Brown did offer some nice words of reflection and encouragement for his former play-caller making his way to Chicago.
"Obviously, I love Ben. One of my favorite coaches that I've ever had," St. Brown explained. "He's one of the hardest working coaches that I've been around. Obviously I would want to have him in Detroit forever but that's not the reality of things."
Based on everything that's been said about Johnson from all his former players and coaches, the Bears are luckily to have him leading the franchise into the future.
Here’s everything new Chicago Bears’ head coach Ben Johnson and Caleb Williams said about each other during the 2024 NFL season
This is going to be a match made in heaven.
