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.”

Johnson was introduced as the new head coach of the Chicago Bears on Wednesday and immediately took a shot at the team's rivals to the north. The 38-year-old former Detroit Lions offensive coordinator discussed staying in the NFC North, then took aim at the Green Bay Packers and their head coach Matt LaFleur.

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New Chicago Bears head coach Ben Johnson took a dig at Green Bay Packers HC Matt LaFleur during his introductory conference.

The Chicago Bears media got a chance to be introduced to new head coach Ben Johnson. While doing so, Johnson made a comment that’s sure to end up as bulletin board material inside the Green Bay Packers’ locker room. “To be quite frank with you, I kinda enjoyed beating Matt LaFleur twice a year.” BEN JOHNSON COMIN’ IN HOT pic.twitter.com/vBxiEriFRk

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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.

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.”

The Bears landed the top coaching candidate in Ben Johnson, who checks all the boxes to get them back to relevancy. Here is our grade of the hire.