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The Bears have had coach Ben Johnson in their building for seven months, and so far he’s been exactly as advertised. Team president Kevin Warren called him “everything we had hoped for.”
The real test will come when the games start, but Johnson already has sent a desperately needed jolt through Halas Hall with his exuberance, confidence and insistence on bringing old-school ferocity back to the Bears.
“That’s one thing you’ve noticed: that intensity level,” Warren said Friday after watching a scrappy Bears-Dolphins joint practice. “When you’re able to have intense practices at this time in training camp, it says that the players respect the coaches, and especially the head coach.