It's one thing to tease a friend, but Ben Johnson threw a verbal right hook at a rival during his introductory press conference on Wednesday.

The Bears’ hiring of Ben Johnson as coach has received unanimous praise. Michael Reaves/ Share It was a week of living utopiously. In football utopia. In the City of Eden. Chicago’s introduction to Ben Johnson as the Bears’ savior-in-chief — a k a: head coach — seemed more coronation than filling the team’s latest coaching vacancy.