{"id":795657,"date":"2026-07-31T15:29:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-31T15:29:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/795657\/"},"modified":"2026-07-31T15:29:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-31T15:29:08","slug":"ben-johnson-on-handling-hype-were-the-no-1-regression-candidate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/795657\/","title":{"rendered":"Ben Johnson on handling hype: We&#8217;re the No. 1 regression candidate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Liam Coen and Ben Johnson oversaw major turnarounds in their first seasons as NFL head coaches in 2025 and they\u2019ve been linked again by the topic of motivating their teams for the coming season. <\/p>\n<p>In a recent interview, Coen said it has been easy to motivate his players with the Jaguars by pointing out how they\u2019ve been overlooked despite a 13-win season. Coen said on 1010XL that he <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/1010XL\/status\/2082949597261910044\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">doesn\u2019t see<\/a> any discussion of his team while scrolling the NFL\u2019s website, but sees 40 pictures of Bears quarterback Caleb Williams. <\/p>\n<p>During a Friday press conference, Johnson was asked if he\u2019d heard Coen\u2019s comments and whether he feels he has the opposite problem with the Bears because there is more hype around the team. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re the number one regression candidate, so I think we\u2019ve got <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/ChicagoBears\/status\/2083172458903773290\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">plenty of motivation<\/a> ourselves,\u201d Johnson said. \u201cWe talked about Caleb in the past. He\u2019s used to handling a lot of attention, so I\u2019m not worried about that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>There are plenty of cases in NFL history of teams that take big strides one season without being able to sustain that growth in the years to come. Coen and Johnson are coming at that challenge from different angles, but both will have to succeed in order to set themselves up for long runs in their current jobs. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Liam Coen and Ben Johnson oversaw major turnarounds in their first seasons as NFL head coaches in 2025&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":795658,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":["post-795657","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\/795657","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=795657"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/795657\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/795658"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=795657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=795657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=795657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}