Ben Johnson assured of no power struggle in Bears' front office
Ben Johnson's arrival as the head coach of the Chicago Bears has changed a lot of narratives, attitudes, and opinions about the team, and franchise as a whole.
During the team's wide-ranging search for their next head coach, many doubted that chairman George McCaskey and the front office would pony up the money to actually land the biggest hot commodity on the coaching market, yet the Bears got it done and landed Johnson just days after the Detroit Lions were eliminated from the playoffs.
Johnson's agent, Rick Smith, did an interview on 670 the Score and brought some confidence to how the power structure will be between the front office and coaching staff. According to Smith, neither McCaskey or president Kevin Warren will stand in the way of Johnson, who will have a voice when it comes to decisions about the team's roster.
Reassuring their head coach that the structure was in order, Warren and McCaskey guaranteed that Johnson will play a major part in the building of the roster moving forward, impressing his agent.
"I was really pleasantly surprised,' Smith said Tuesday, when speaking about the Bears front office, putting to rest concerns of a potential power struggle in the front office.
Both Johnson and Warren's arrivals to Chicago have brought their own structure and feeling of new beginnings inside Halas Hall. There's a clear power structure, a clear understanding, and hopefully a clear path to success for the Bears moving forward.
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