“So much of it is [Johnson’s] personality: It’s his demanding an exacting precision, the way he runs it,” Gladchuk said. “When he does, it works. He’s smart. He out-thinks people. Not everyone has the same qualities that Paul does, so maybe there’s a little bit of a stigma because there are a lot of other guys who can’t figure it out; they’re just going to be critical of it. But if you take a mind like Paul has, who is a master of what this offense is all about, and you take a guy like that who is as avid a competitor as he is, and you challenge him — you fasten your seatbelt, because it’s going to be a war. It’s going to be more than a game. That’s just how he is.”
