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The looming threat to the Bears’ pursuit of coach Ben Johnson was the allure of the Raiders offering him a tremendous amount of power by having input — perhaps even outright say — on who they’d hire as general manager. They have a trove of salary-cap space, and Johnson essentially would be the one to decide how to spend it.
He turned that down in favor of what figures to be much more of a partnership with general manager Ryan Poles, who just finished his third season running the Bears and has a 15-36 record.