As offensive coordinator in Detroit, Ben Johnson and the Lions swept the Packers in 2022 and again in 2024. He is taking over a Bears roster that is “stocked and loaded.”

Perhaps it was no surprise that he would come in hot in his first press conference as the Bears' head coach. He was just hoping for a better outcome when he made a joke about Green Bay Packers head coach Matt LaFleur. "To be quite frank with you, I kind of enjoyed beating Matt LaFleur twice a year,” Johnson said with a smirk on his face.

Ben Johnson, the Chicago Bears new head coach, had this to say about Matt LaFleur and the Green Bay Packers: "I kind of enjoyed beating Matt LaFleur twice a year.”