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Ben Johnson showing confidence in his kicker is refreshing in today's NFL.
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00:00Ben Johnson, you have an offensive-minded coach, one of the best we're now seeing in the NFL.
00:04Gutsy as hell, too, including kicking that 58-yard field goal.
00:07When if they had missed that, that's a great position for the Patriots' offense to go back down the other
00:11way.
00:12Confidence in your kicker.
00:13Yeah, confidence in your kicker, confidence in your quarterback.
00:16But you see it from Ben Johnson, and that confidence, there's a trickle-down effect, right?
00:22Attitude reflects leadership, and you're seeing it with the Bears.
00:24See, that's the thing.
00:25I've always felt, like when I was playing quarterback in high school, college,
00:29coach always said, what do you want to do?
00:32And to me, that's the ultimate confidence.
00:35You're not telling me what we're running.
00:37You're asking me what I want to do.
00:38And I can recall one time, we were playing, hell, this is my last game, college football.
00:44And it was like, we get on the, we're on the two, three-yard line.
00:51And I come to the sideline, and I'm like, let's run that same play we just ran.
00:54He said, no, no, no, no.
00:55You got us here.
00:56I think you want to run the quarterback draw.
00:59I'm like, coach, if I get stopped, the clock's going to run out.
01:01He say, you're not going to get stopped.
01:03And when he said that, I'm like, you're damn straight.
01:05I'm not going to get stopped.
01:06And I dropped back, boom, score.
01:08And then we had to go for a two-point conversion.
01:10Then we went back to this other play and threw it over the top.
01:13My man caught the ball, one ball.
01:15But it's the confidence that you get from your coach.
01:17If you go to the sideline as a quarterback, and you're looking at your coach,
01:20and he doesn't seem sure of the play, you are going to the huddle with that same face.
01:25Yeah.
01:26And people are going to be like, oh, hell, this ain't going to work.

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