Buffalo Bills news, 2/5: Pepper Johnson on why he came to Buffalo

Inside The Bills | Why Pepper Johnson left the Pats to come to Buffalo

"I’m growing," Johnson said. "I’m a very ambitious person. I started off coaching and I moved around a little bit while I was there with New England, starting off with the linebackers,…then I graduated to coaching inside linebackers and took the linebackers over, and then eventually the defensive line. I went back to linebackers last year."

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