Episode #225: Ben Johnson promoted to Offensive Coordinator
Detroit Lions Breakdown
Erik Schlitt and Joe Kania
5.0 • 575 Ratings
🗓️ 10 February 2022
⏱️ 81 minutes
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Summary
This week on the podcast, the guys discuss the Detroit Lions coaching staff and the movement over the past few weeks, review the 2022 Senior Bowl, and visit the mailbag for a plethora of draft-related questions.
Erik thanks for the fans’ support!
Coaching carousel
- Ben Johnson promoted to Lions’ Offensive Coordinator
- Aaron Glenn passed over for the Head Coaching jobs in 2022, will return to Lions as Defensive Coordinator job
- Aubrey Pleasant interviewing for DC spots in Minnesota and New Orleans
Review the highlights from the Senior Bowl
Wrap up with a bunch of NFL Draft questions from the mailbag.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, everyone and welcome to another episode of the Detroit Lions Breakdown podcast. |
| 0:05.6 | I'm Joe Kanya with me as always is Eric Schlett for pride of Detroit.com. |
| 0:09.7 | Eric, the senior bowl, was this past Saturday. |
| 0:12.5 | We'll be talking about that a little bit. |
| 0:15.0 | Terrible game. |
| 0:16.6 | Yeah. |
| 0:17.3 | Like it was really tough to keep my attention during it. |
| 0:21.8 | You know, I know you wanted to talk about something real quick. |
| 0:24.7 | So I'm just going to sit over here and focus on teams contending for titles. |
| 0:29.9 | That's my narrative for the time being. |
| 0:34.1 | Yeah, all right. |
| 0:34.9 | So I don't know how much attention I want to give to this just because it's, you know, it's we're several days removed. |
| 0:44.6 | But I figure people are waiting to hear from me because I've been kind of, I don't know, I've been somewhat silent on the issue. |
| 0:52.2 | Basically over the weekend, this past weekend, there was a national pundit who was, |
| 0:59.5 | he took a couple shots at the Lions, and it was no big deal. |
| 1:04.8 | I kind of actually let it go. |
| 1:07.3 | But then a couple of Lions fans had some comments to say to him. |
| 1:13.4 | And he was basically like calling him out. And he was like quote tweeting them and kind of making fun of them. |
| 1:17.1 | Like I, it rubbed me the wrong way. |
| 1:19.9 | So I opted to quote tweet him on something. |
| 1:25.2 | And basically, essentially what he said was, yeah, he doesn't pay attention to lines because he only pays attention to contenders. |
| 1:31.6 | And so I said for a person who is supposed to cover the league, admitting that you only cover part of them is, you know, kind of like a terrible approach to your job, essentially. |
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