Let Me Tell You Something: Big Sal's Full Takedown of the Ben Johnson Hype Machine
Packernet Podcast: Daily Green Bay Packers Podcast
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4.7 • 524 Ratings
🗓️ 12 March 2026
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Summary
Big Sal from Peshtigo has had ENOUGH. The national media is parading Ben Johnson around like he cracked the code of professional football, and Sal is here to set the record straight — one hot dog deal at a time.
- The Bears went 2-for-6 on fourth down in the Wild Card game, a missed Brandon McManus field goal bailed out their "genius" head coach, and somehow the columns keep coming. Sal breaks down exactly what the numbers say about Johnson's debut season.
- Caleb Williams went 24-for-48 in the biggest game of his year and seven fourth-quarter comebacks apparently make him Marino. Sal is not buying it — and he has receipts.
- The Packers gave away the NFC North game at 16-6 with under two minutes left and spotted Chicago 21 unanswered points in the Wild Card. The Bears did not beat Green Bay. Green Bay beat Green Bay.
- Ben Johnson chirped at LaFleur on day one with zero wins as a head coach. Sal has a theory about what that actually means — and it is not confidence.
The assignment for 2026 is simple: stop making Opie's job easy. Subscribe, leave a review, and tell every Packers fan you know — we are not afraid of a man who learned a rhyme in high school.
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| 0:00.0 | Let me tell you something, Pac Nation. |
| 0:14.2 | Ben Johnson. |
| 0:16.0 | Ben Johnson. |
| 0:18.2 | That is the guy. |
| 0:19.7 | That is the guy Chicago is parading around like he is the second |
| 0:24.0 | coming of Vince Lombardi. That is the guy the whole national media is treating like he cracked |
| 0:30.5 | the code of professional football. This man, this shirtless chanting hot dog promotional Jagoff from South Carolina won 11 regular |
| 0:41.7 | season games with a loaded young quarterback and a schedule that set them up like a craft fair |
| 0:48.4 | gift basket. |
| 0:49.8 | And now we are all supposed to genuflect in front of O.P.? |
| 0:55.0 | Let me describe Ben Johnson to anyone who has not seen him. |
| 0:59.0 | He looks like the substitute teacher who lets you watch a movie on Fridays. |
| 1:04.0 | He looks like the assistant manager at a bedbath and beyond who just got promoted to store manager and cannot stop talking about it. |
| 1:13.1 | He has got this face, this scrubbed, wholesome, I coach youth lacrosse on weekend's face, |
| 1:20.5 | and the media is melting over it. Meanwhile, Packers fans are supposed to be terrified of this man, of this guy. |
| 1:30.0 | Let me tell you what Ben Johnson's big moment was this year. |
| 1:33.8 | His marquee statement, his signature act as head coach of the Chicago Bears. |
| 1:40.7 | He took his shirt off. |
| 1:42.8 | A hot dog stand. |
| 1:54.0 | An actual hot dog stand in Chicago promised him free hot dogs if he celebrated shirtless after a win. And this man, this fully employed NFL head coach making millions of dollars, took his shirt off in the locker room for a hot dog |
| 2:04.1 | promotion. And every reporter in America wrote a column about authentic leadership, an entire |
| 2:11.0 | column about a grown man and a hot dog deal. This is the genius we are supposed to fear. The man negotiated with a hot dog |
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