Can Ben Johnson Replicate His Success as a HC? + Game of the Week & CFP Semifinals Preview
NFL: Good Morning Football
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4.3 • 655 Ratings
🗓️ 9 January 2025
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
On this episode of Move the Sticks, Bucky Brooks is joined by special guest Lance Zierlein. The duo dives into what makes Lions offensive coordinator Ben Johnson such a coveted head coaching candidate in the NFL. They explore the challenges that come with transitioning from a successful coordinator to a head coach and whether Johnson can replicate his success with a new roster.
Next, they break down the Game of the Week: Packers vs. Eagles, predicting who will move on to the divisional round. Finally, they preview the College Football Playoff semifinals, highlighting key things to watch.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
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| 0:28.5 | Welcome to Move the Sticks. I'm Bucky Brooks and I am here with my man L.Z. Lance Zerlion is stepping in for Daniel Jeremiah. And we're going to talk all things football today. But before we do it, I got to give a shout out to my guy H-Town. Putting it down. What up, Lance? I'm just sub-package rush or just trying to come in and create havoc and disrupt the pocket. That's all I'm trying to do. Well, I love that we can call you anytime just like Mike Jones. I can't pay you 100K to come and fill up the show, but I appreciate that in H-Town. Y'all still respect Mike Jones like that. And I look, I respect the fact that I'm able to bring you on and we can talk all of these things. And so what we want to talk today, We want to talk about how hot Ben Johnson is. He is the flavor of the month when it comes to the head coaching search. We can talk about game of the week, the Green Bay Packers taking on the Philadelphia Eagles. I think we'll talk about a little bit about this college football playoff, the semifinals, and who you expect to move on after the weekend is over. |
| 1:28.8 | But let's talk about it. |
| 1:29.7 | Let's talk about Ben Johnson. |
| 1:31.2 | Ben Johnson is hot. |
| 1:32.6 | Everyone loves them. |
| 1:33.5 | He's certainly been putting on the show with the Lions. |
| 1:36.5 | They lead the NFL in like points per game, 33.2 points per game, break second and total |
| 1:42.3 | yards per game with 409.5. He is scheduled to interview |
| 1:46.4 | with the Raiders, the Patriots, the Bears, and then the Jaguar snuck in. One, tell me what you |
| 1:52.2 | think about Ben Johnson, the job that he's done with Jared Gough and the Detroit Lions. And two, |
| 1:58.1 | why do you believe so many people are hot on his tail? |
| 2:05.9 | Well, I mean, everyone's, I'm going to reverse order. I mean, everyone's hot on his, on his, scent because look at what he's done for the Renaissance of Jared Gough over the last |
| 2:11.8 | couple of years. It's been unbelievable. And you remember, Bucky, you're there in Los Angeles. |
| 2:15.9 | People are done with him with the Rams. |
| 2:34.3 | It started off with that bad game in the Super Bowl. Had no momentum to next year. People were done. They brought Matthew Stafford in. And it was like, man, what a, you know, what an unbelievable move for L.A. But it turns out that it was a great move for Detroit as well. And a lot of that has to go, I think, to, I'm going to get to Brad Holmes in a second, |
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