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Ben Johnson-Caleb Williams pairing gives Bears a leg up

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It’s all about the quarterback. Still.

“The No. 1 marriage in all of sports is the marriage between the quarterback and the coach. That’s it. It starts there. And everything proceeds from there.”

As familiar as that sentiment might sound, those words of wisdom were not from new Bears coach Ben Johnson, but from Marc Trestman when he was introduced as the Bears’ head coach in 2013.

Johnson did put his present-day spin on the importance of the quarterback when he was introduced as the Bears’ latest head coach on Jan.