{"id":865043,"date":"2026-09-29T19:22:16","date_gmt":"2026-09-29T19:22:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/865043\/"},"modified":"2026-09-29T19:22:16","modified_gmt":"2026-09-29T19:22:16","slug":"ben-johnson-takes-another-dig-at-jared-goffs-mobility","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/865043\/","title":{"rendered":"Ben Johnson takes another dig at Jared Goff’s mobility"},"content":{"rendered":"

When Bears coach Ben Johnson compared the mobility of quarterback Caleb Williams to the lack of mobility of Jared Goff in 2025, Johnson promptly explained he wasn\u2019t taking a shot at Goff.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was not a shot at Jared<\/a>,\u201d Johnson said in early 2025. \u201cI\u2019ve talked to Jared about it. Sometimes your comments get skewed a little bit. That was not my intent. He certainly understands that. It was more directed towards Caleb and what he brings to the table.\u201d<\/p>\n

Fast forward to last night, and Johnson took another apparent shot at Goff.<\/p>\n

\u201cWell, I\u2019ve got a little history with that, of calling plays for someone not so mobile,\u201d Johnson said regarding the different playing styles of Williams and Case Keenum. <\/p>\n

Johnson likely will say again that it wasn\u2019t a shot at Goff. And it really isn\u2019t. Everyone knows Jared Goff isn\u2019t Usain Bolt.<\/p>\n

Still, watch the video<\/a>. Johnson knew what was coming. And he smirked a couple of times while the question was being asked. He knew exactly what he was going to say. And he seemed to enjoy it.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s a refreshing cheekiness to Johnson that often shines through. Indeed, Johnson added another remark about the fact that, for the first time in his career as a play-caller, he was working with someone who wasn\u2019t the first overall pick in the draft.<\/p>\n

\u201cNow, I don\u2019t have a history with someone that\u2019s not a number one pick though,\u201d Johnson said after his latest non-shot shot at Goff. \u201cSo that was apparently a big deal.\u201d<\/p>\n

It wasn\u2019t necessarily a \u201cbig deal.\u201d But it was, you know, a fact. The latest fact is that it doesn\u2019t matter, and that Johnson was able to take a guy who hadn\u2019t played in a regular-season game in 1,009 days and make him look like a Pro Bowler.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s no surprise, given that Johnson took a guy the Rams couldn\u2019t wait to get rid of and turned him into a high-end starter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"When Bears coach Ben Johnson compared the mobility of quarterback Caleb Williams to the lack of mobility of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":865044,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":["post-865043","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\/865043","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=865043"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/865043\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/865044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=865043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=865043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=865043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}