It’s Lions Week at Halas Hall, and Detroit’s head coach has already labeled this one as a must-win against the Ben Johnson-led Chicago Bears. And while I am not quite ready to make that leap, I was curious to hear what the first-year Bears head coach had to say as he turns the page from the team’s loss to the Minnesota Vikings on Monday Night Football and pivots to the upcoming game against a Lions team he was calling offensive plays for the last three seasons.
Ben Johnson reflects on his Week 1 coaching mistakes
After listening to Matt Eberflus deflect and point fingers during his press conferences, it was truly refreshing to hear Ben Johnson take accountability in the wake of the team’s Week 1 loss to the Vikings.
These quotes from Johnson stood out to me:
On his play-calling: “I didn’t think I called a particularly great game. I could’ve adjusted a little bit better to the lack of pressure that (Vikings defensive coordinator Brian Flores) was giving us. I can do a better job there.” On the wasted challenge: “I thought I saw knees up and so that’s on me. I’ve got to do a better job listening to the guys up top. I get influenced a little bit for the first time with the people around me and I’ve just got to stay true to the process. … That timeout in the second half, those things are very valuable and having that at the end of the game would have been huge for us.” On the decision to kick it through the end zone: “I felt like we could kick it out of the back. We weren’t able to get that done. In hindsight, I should’ve kicked it out of bounds.” Sticking up for his players: “Effort wasn’t an issue. Those guys did a good job playing hard and competing the whole night. But the execution has to improve, particularly there in the fourth quarter.”The answers above were everything I wanted to hear from the Bears’ head coach when I wrote this piece about Ben Johnson’s coaching missteps on Tuesday. Anything can be a teachable moment if you allow yourself the opportunity to learn.
Sep 8, 2025; Chicago, Illinois, USA; Chicago Bears head coach Ben Johnson reacts during the second half at Soldier Field. Mandatory Credit: David Banks-Imagn ImagesThis week’s point of emphasis begins in the trenches
The re-tooled Bears’ offensive line had four false start penalties on Monday. That is far too many self-inflicted mistakes for a unit with five players who have been primary starters in this league for multiple years. To have that many false starts in a home game is unacceptable. Unfortunately, it won’t get any easier as Chicago’s football team takes its show on the road inside the dome at Ford Field in Detroit. I thought what Johnson had to say (via the Bears’ official website) about that challenge was interesting:
“I guess silent cadence, right? Maybe that’ll help here this week. We can go on that and we’re going to need to do that and we’re going to need to be really good at that because this is going to be a loud environment that we’re going to. It’s going to be a playoff-like atmosphere. Ford Field has been something else over the last couple of years, so we’re going to have to be at our best.
“Certainly, we haven’t been good enough over the course of camp. We haven’t been good Week 1, and so this is going to be a huge point of emphasis for us going forward.”
Kudos to Ben Johnson for striking a balance between being critical of poor performance while laying out a course of action that could lead the team to be better in Week 2 than it was in Week 1.
Ben Johnson fondly remembers his time in Detroit
The first question Bears Head Coach Ben Johnson took during his Wednesday press conference at Halas Hall was from a Detroit-based media member who asked about what was taken into account when Johnson left the Lions for the Bears. This was a thoughtful response:
“Everything last year ran through my head. And that was one of the unfortunate parts of making that decision. You were saying goodbye to a lot of friends and a great place. And so, my family, myself, we had a lot of strong relationships there in that community. Hopefully, that continues to stay that way as well. But we felt like this was the best opportunity for myself and my family, and we were really excited about coming to Chicago. At times, you have to make tough decisions, and that’s really how that one went down.”
No one likes a messy breakup. So it is nice to hear that Ben Johnson harbors no ill-will toward the Lions, even if some of their fans have been weird (and that is putting it mildly) about his departure for Chicago.
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