Best option for panicky Lions fans might involve Chicago Bears

Or at least they're intertwined as long as these coaching staffs remain with the two organizations.

NBC announcers Mike Tirico and Cris Collinsworth rarely need to say much to raise the ire of fans for whatever team's game they're broadcasting, and that goes for fans of both teams.

But in this case just the mention of Johnson became a source for Lions fans to explode online..

This is going to go on all year, so get used to it. Maybe it will end after a season, or even after the Week 2 game between the teams, but most likely will take longer.

This is not to suggest the Lions fans are going to be angry and their team losing all year. In fact, it probably will turn out they're still good.

Overall, their talent is the same or even better because of an improved and healthier defense.

Rather, it's going to be an overreaction against Ben Johnson or to the Lions all year revolving around how the Bears or Lions play.

It's the nature of social media and also the NFL. It's a week-to-week league and it's made for the overreaction and rants on social media clicked out in seconds afterward.

So, the Bears lose this year and Lions fans will be crowing about how he was overrated as their coordinator.

The Lions lose this year and it's never going to be the same under offensive coordinator Chad Morton because he's not Johnson.

The Bears win and Lions lose, the Bears will be smarter than the average NFL team for paying out the money for Johnson.

The Bears lose and Lions win, it was all because Dan Campbell was the brains of the operation and Johnson was only the reason they lost to Washington in the playoffs.

Got it?

Now that this has been explained, it's all out there so the overreactions should be resisted. They won't be, though.

Besides, there's no reason for the Lions to be too upset. It might only last for a year.

When the Lions are terrible on offense this year, in January they can always try to hire away Declan Doyle, Press Taylor, Eric Bieniemy or Antwaan Randle El from Johnson's Chicago staff with the promise they can call plays for Campbell.