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'Snot-nosed computer punk' Ben Johnson ready for return to Detroit

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Lions coach Dan Campbell calls protégé Ben Johnson a “snot-nosed computer punk.”

He means it with love.

“That friendship is always going to be there,” the Bears head coach said Wednesday. “I view him like family and I think he would tell you the same thing. That will never change. We have fond memories of back when I was just a young, snot-nosed computer punk — as he likes to call it — in Miami.”

The two met in 2012 when Johnson became a coaching intern for the Dolphins, where Campbell was the tight ends coach.