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First, as difficult as this will be, try your best to imagine me being very serious while saying this next line.

The fact that it has been NINE F*CKING days since Johnson died and this is the first story I have seen on ESPN.COM is F*CKING LUDICROUS.

With that being said, this is a very good article.  Jim Johnson is arguably the greatest Defensive Coordinator of the modern era of professional football.  His death has touched a lot of Philadelphia Eagles fans because, simply, the rest of the world just didn’t know about it.  No major sports websites or channels discussed it.

The reason for the silence surrounding Johnson’s death still escapes me.  There were more articles written about him stepping down from his position a week earlier than the news of his death.

I am certainly biased in this situation, being an avid Eagles fan, but I still feel that, in today’s NFL, where defense wins championships(see Pittsburgh, NY Giants), Jim Johnson deserves a little more coverage than this.

RIP Jim Johnson

1941-2009