New Bears coach Ben Johnson realizes it won't hurt to add coaches who have been around the track a few times to complement his own relative inexperience.
set about trying to piece together his staff on Wednesday after his first press conference. He couldn't deny interest in Dennis Allen as defensive coordinator and Adam Schefter has called Allen the leading candidate, but there has been no official hiring and the Bears were reported to be set to interview Rams defensive passing game coordinator and assistant head coach Aubrey Pleasant.
"There's no question that experience–whether it's coordinators or elsewhere–within the coaching staff will be important to me," Johnson said. "That's why I look forward here after we get through this initial madness if you will. We can get going on the coaching staff. Johnson doesn't see his own experience as inadequate, particularly because of the wide range of success and failure he's endured. It's just they could use the experience.
"We had just had our second child," Johnson said. "What really should have been the best time in my life because I was still getting paid to live in a phenomenal climate with two young kids. I would've been able to sink in as a father and a husband in a profession where that rarely happens. Truthfully I was in my darkest moment because something that I loved got ripped away from me.
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