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Jim Johnson found his true football home at the very end of his long and distinguished career, at the very end of a life that ended all too soon today. The Eagles and their fans are grateful he did. Johnson was prepared to retire in 1999 when he got an out-of-the-blue call from a young, unproven coach he’d met on a bus in Honolulu. Andy Reid had just been hired as head coach of the Eagles and he wanted Johnson, a man nearly two decades his senior, to be his defensive coordinator. After scuffling to land a job coaching linebackers in Seattle a year earlier and then getting fired yet again, Johnson needed time to decide whether it would be better to step back and live on his comfortable NFL …

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