"The Jim Johnson memory that has stuck with Jeffrey Lurie took place inside the visiting locker room after the Eagles' fall-from-ahead loss in the NFC championship game a little more than six months ago."The moment I'll always remember was last January after we had just lost [to the Arizona Cardinals] and we were in the locker room," Lurie said a few hours after learning that his longtime defensive coordinator had died at the age of 68. "There were a few moments where I was alone with Jim and he came over to me and said, 'I'm so sorry we didn't deliver this for us.'"I remember thinking to myself, 'Oh, my God, Jim, I have the best defensive coordinator in football for the last 10 years.' I told him, 'You have nothing to be apologetic about. You give more than any owner could possibly expect.' It was one of those rare, emotional moments when things are so upsetting because we hadn't advanced to the Super Bowl. He was so confident we were going to get the ring. He was just so apologetic and I'll always remember that moment."Eleven days after that difficult-to-digest loss, the Eagles revealed that Johnson had metastatic melanoma on his spine, the symptoms of which had surfaced during the playoff run when the veteran coach was forced to move from the sidelines to the press box because of the pain in his back.Johnson's battle with cancer, which had first surfaced in 2001, had begun anew, and the entire Eagles family felt the pain. Eagles coach Andy Reid said he and team president Joe Banner visited Johnson for the final time Monday night at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania. Johnson, however, was unable to talk. The final conversation between Reid and Johnson took place a few days earlier."We talked a little bit about football and a little bit about his treatment," Reid said. "He was really concerned about training camp. He had all the training camp dates down."Reid said he first realized how much he missed Johnson when he went to Hawaii to coach the Pro Bowl without his defensive coordinator. He had told his assistant coaches before they boarded the plane that Johnson had cancer."Where I really felt it was at the Pro Bowl," Reid said. "Having my headset on and not hearing him growling in the headset. That was kind of the first time that I noticed it. After that, you just kind of move on and try to . . . But I will say the other day [when the team reported to training camp] was different. It was different introducing Sean. But time takes care of that. We'll all miss him. This is somebody who left a legacy."More than a decade earlier, Reid had first met Johnson when the two men were coaching on opposite sides at the Pro Bowl in Hawaii. Reid was a young assistant with the Green Bay Packers and Johnson was the defensive coordinator with the Indianapolis Colts. Johnson later got Reid's attention again when his winless Colts pulled a stunning upset of the Packers in 1997.That memory stuck with Reid, and two years later when he was hired as th