{"id":153570,"date":"2025-09-13T09:27:06","date_gmt":"2025-09-13T09:27:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/153570\/"},"modified":"2025-09-13T09:27:06","modified_gmt":"2025-09-13T09:27:06","slug":"ben-johnson-on-kickoff-can-we-go-on-to-the-next-game-i-got-greedy-and-wanted-five-yards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/153570\/","title":{"rendered":"Ben Johnson on kickoff: Can we go on to the next game? I got greedy and wanted five yards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bears head coach <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcsports.com\/nfl\/profootballtalk\/rumor-mill\/news\/ben-johnson-takes-blame-for-bears-not-kicking-out-of-bounds-late-in-game\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Ben Johnson has admitted he screwed up<\/a> when he asked his kicker to kick off out the back of the end zone late in Monday night\u2019s loss to the Vikings. And now that he has admitted it, he\u2019d like to stop talking about it.<\/p>\n<p>When a reporter brought the subject up today, Johnson interjected that he\u2019d rather look ahead to Sunday\u2019s game against the Lions than keep dwelling on the ending of last week\u2019s game.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCan we go on to the next game?\u201d Johnson said before the reporter finished his question.<\/p>\n<p>The reporter continued with the question, asking why the Bears didn\u2019t kick the ball short of the landing zone, which under the new kickoff rules puts the ball at the 40-yard line without taking any time off the clock. Johnson said he considered that but wanted to see if his kicker could kick a touchback, which would put the Vikings five yards farther back at the 35-yard line.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLast time I\u2019m going to bring up last game, OK? I got greedy, and I wanted the extra five yards,\u201d Johnson said. \u201cThat\u2019s why we tried to kick it out the back of the end zone. Simple as that, OK?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It was a big mistake in Johnson\u2019s first game as head coach. And a mistake he\u2019d like to stop talking about.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bears head coach Ben Johnson has admitted he screwed up when he asked his kicker to kick off&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":153571,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":["post-153570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153570","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=153570"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153570\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/153571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}