Thread:Shabook/@comment-23892062-20161211004819/@comment-996391-20161211124137

"You think Robbie will make it back?" "The last Ghost Rider did." "Wait a minute. Wait. What?" "Long story."

- Quake and Phil Coulson

"The last one" means the current one's predecessor. The current GR is Robbie Reyes, and his predecessor is Johnny Blaze. The Spirit of Vengeance says that he escaped from Hell once. That could mean that the Spirit and Blaze were already bonded when the Spirit escaped from Hell, which explains how "The last Ghost Rider" managed to come back. As for how Coulson knows that, maybe Mack still has some of the Spirit's memories and he told Coulson about Blaze and the Spirit escaping from Hell.