We’ve already broken out the bigger items from Ben Johnson’s Wednesday media session at Halas Hall (Braxton Jones and the left tackle battle, Rome Odunze’s WR1 bid, and the availability questions around Kyler Gordon). Here are the rest of the head coach’s notable comments from the day.
The morning’s big headline outside the building was Caleb Williams being revealed as the cover athlete for Madden NFL 27, EA Sports’ long-running NFL sim. Johnson, asked about it, offered no reaction at all. Make of that what you will. Johnson had plenty more to say about the substance of Williams’ offseason, though. With the accolades and the hype piling up around his third-year quarterback, Johnson made clear none of it changes the way he coaches him.
“He’s wired the right way. He wants to be great, and when that’s the case, you can coach him hard,” Johnson said. “We’re showing clips in front of the offensive unit today, and there are some things from yesterday’s practice that, in my opinion, he can get better at. So you coach him just like you coach all the other guys, and he wants that — he wants to be coached the same.”
He added that the two meet daily and are “seeing the game through the same lens, which I think is critical for a playcaller and a quarterback,” and that he’s “really proud about how he’s gone about this offseason so far.”
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