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What could the Chicago Bears job do to impact the chances of the Jacksonville Jaguars landing Ben Johnson?
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01:26Hello, hello everybody.
01:29Welcome to today's episode.
01:31Today we're going to talk a little bit about the Chicago Bears and how they might actually
01:35be the team that, to a large extent, controls the Jacksonville Jaguars' destiny in terms
01:41of their potential, and in my opinion, likely, head coaching search at the end of the 2024
01:49season.
01:50Of course, we need to preface this, as we always do.
01:55Jaguars head coach Doug Peterson is still in his position as head coach, is obviously
02:00going to remain there for the final three weeks of the season, and then you can expect
02:05some kind of decision by Jaguars owner Sha Khan.
02:08I am of the belief personally, and again, this is just my thinking, this isn't me reporting
02:16this, this isn't me sourcing this, but it's my personal belief that Jaguars head coach
02:22Doug Peterson will be fired at the end of the season.
02:27I have a few reasons, of course, for believing that.
02:30As I've said before, as you guys all know from listening and from reading my work at
02:35Jaguars on SI, I, again, personally think when it comes to Black Monday, in just a few
02:45weeks from now, that the Jaguars will make the decision on Doug Peterson, and will move
02:49on from him, and look for the next person who can cultivate Trevor Lawrence, and try
02:54to turn the Jaguars into a consistent winner.
02:59The obvious top name on the head coaching market entering next season has to be the
03:09short lines offensive coordinator, Ben Johnson.
03:11I can't even think of who would be number two at this point.
03:14A few guys can probably make a case, I personally am a big Liam Cohen fan, I think Brian Flores
03:19deserves another shot as well, Mike Rables up there, but otherwise, one thing I've been
03:29told by a few people at NFL Circles this year is that this year's coaching pool is not,
03:35in terms of candidates, is not as strong as some past years, it's looked at as one of
03:40the weaker coaching pools the NFL has seen in the last couple of years.
03:48Why people believe that is the case, a lot of people believe as a drop-off after Johnson
03:53that everybody else brings some red flags with them, Flores is obviously a top-tier
03:59coach but he had his entire situation with Tua and the Dolphins in the NFL, otherwise
04:09Liam Cohen is a really young up-and-comer, maybe there's not experience there for some.
04:17Mike Rables never had a 21st century offense in Tennessee, he made good offense coordinator
04:23hires but both of them, LaFleur and Arthur Smith, left to become head coaches elsewhere.
04:32So there are plenty of red flags around nearly every candidate this year, other than seemingly
04:38Johnson.
04:39Now, I don't think Johnson is a completely flawless coaching candidate either, I think
04:49with every single coaching candidate, you have to take the good and the bad.
04:56My personal belief with Johnson is that if you're looking for a red flag with him, it's
05:03that he can't take Pena Soul and David Montgomery and Jameer Gibbs and Amon Raw, St. Brown,
05:10with him to his next stop, otherwise I think he has a fairly unblemished track record,
05:18he's constructed one of the NFL's best offenses for three years running now, has helped, at
05:27least to me, whereby the entire idea of Jared Goff as a quarterback, and in a lot of ways
05:35I think he's the reason Jared Goff got the big money contract extension that he got.
05:41The reason all of this is brought up is because I firmly believe that when it comes to Ben
05:50Johnson, the two jobs on the table for him this year are the Chicago Bears and the Jacksonville
05:58Jaguars win slash if they fire Doug Peterson.
06:02I don't think he wants any part of the Saints job.
06:06He obviously, in my opinion, wouldn't even entertain the idea of the Jets job.
06:14I don't think, you know, looking at other potential jobs that could come open, I don't
06:23think he'd want to go to the Giants, I don't think he'd want to go to Las Vegas, I think
06:27for him it's Chicago or Jacksonville or back to Detroit.
06:33I am not sure which way he would lean, like say both Jacksonville and Chicago, you know,
06:38he's our guy and he's the covet and he's the hood they go after and he has to make a choice.
06:43I'm not sure which way he would go.
06:47I personally think there's a chance he would go Chicago, but we'll see what the structural
06:59organization of the Jaguars look like, looks like when the time comes.
07:04The reason I bring all this stuff is I think if you take Chicago off the board, then did
07:11Jaguars become the destination for Ben Johnson?
07:14If he wants to become a head coach this year, which is, of course, no guarantee, you know,
07:18it's hard for anybody to turn down a head coaching job, but he's done it before he.
07:25Very well could do it again because there is zero sign that the short lines would slow
07:30down last year, I mean, next year.
07:37If the Bears look elsewhere from Johnson, I think Johnson would be the Jaguars next
07:45head coach.
07:46And the reason all of this comes up is, of course, Sports Illustrated insider and reporter
07:52Albert Greer spoke on ESPN Chicago this morning and he said he personally believes he isn't
08:01reporting this.
08:02This isn't to be run away with as an insider report or anything like that, but his personal
08:07belief is that Mike Rable will be at the top of the Bears wish list.
08:12And we've seen for a few weeks now, insiders claim that the Bears are going to be looking
08:19for a leader of men type head coach, which obviously would be a Mike Rable, a Brian Flores
08:25and Aaron Glenn type guy as.
08:32Much as Johnson is a qualified candidate.
08:36I'm not sure he's that coach, you know, he's the offensive brainiac, the offensive genius,
08:42the great play call.
08:43He is all those things.
08:47But he isn't in the same mold of a coach as Rable.
08:51And if that's the kind of coach Chicago Bears are looking for.
08:55And if Rable is their guy.
08:58Then I think that could create a huge domino effect, which could effectively help the Jaguars
09:03land one of the top head coaching candidates of the 21st century.
09:10You know, of the head coaching candidates we've seen in recent years, I haven't seen
09:16one with.
09:19As much buzz as Johnson since Chip Kelly and.
09:28I think if Chicago doesn't go to Johnson, if they, you know, don't just automatically
09:33want to bring the best offensive mind that they can bring in to help Kayla Williams,
09:37etc.
09:38If they go with Rable, then I think the Jaguars could be the biggest benefactors.
09:44Because I'm just you know, when you look at the open jobs and the jobs that might come
09:47open, none of them pop out as teams that Johnson would seemingly want to join after.
09:52I think it was Breyer who had to report weeks ago that he's going to be essentially interviewing
09:56teams and he wants them to have a clear structure between the head coach and GM and he wants
10:02them to understand the mistakes they've made in the past.
10:06That doesn't sound like.
10:09Any other team on the market, so if the Chicago Bears will truly look to Mike Rable to potentially
10:16be their next head coach, the Jackson Jaguars could come out of that situation as big, big
10:21winners.
10:22Thank you guys as always for joining me.
10:24My name is John Shipley and I'll be back next time.

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