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Johnson spurns limelight, but his defense doesn't

By Len Pasquarelli
ESPN.com

Monday, September 16, 2002

LANDOVER, Md. -- He doesn't have a cutesy, self-invented nickname, like The Ol' Ball Coach, won't toss a visor or play chart in disgust, and is more than content to toil in anonymity as one of the NFL's best, if unknown, assistant coaches. Heck, even his name, Jim Johnson, was made famous in the NFL by that guy with the petrified hair-do who used to coach the Dallas Cowboys. Fact is, the closest Philadelphia Eagles defensive coordinator Jim Johnson might come to having something in common with ...

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