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The Sports Junkies

Is Ben Johnson Scared To Be A Head Coach?

The Sports Junkies

Audacy

Sports

4.31.7K Ratings

🗓️ 31 January 2024

⏱️ 17 minutes

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From 01/31 Hour 1:

The Sports Junkies continue to analyze Ben Johnson remaining in Detroit as their OC.

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0:00.0

talking about the surprising news yesterday that Ben Johnson and Bobby Sloick

0:05.3

two hot offensive coordinators one from the Houston Texans one from Detroit

0:09.2

Lions pulled their names out of the NFL coaching searches down to two teams.

0:13.7

You got the Seattle, Sea Hawks, she got the commanders.

0:16.1

He should send Ben Johnson, like a really nice bottle of wine or like a nice bottle of whiskey,

0:20.8

like, because he hooked him by taking himself out and the

0:23.8

then Houston was like well now we now we got to sweeten your deal to keep you

0:27.7

here because we know people are gonna be knocking on your door.

0:31.0

And he said that's what happened they gave him a bunch of to be knocking on your door. And it's ultimately...

0:33.0

But what happened?

0:34.0

They gave him a bunch of money.

0:35.0

Yeah, they offed his deal.

0:36.0

I'm sure they probably gave him whatever Johnson's making.

0:38.0

They haven't given him any upgrade yet.

0:40.0

The lines to Bay Johnson?

0:42.0

They haven't. No. They gave him an upgrade last year. There could also be a wink wink. Like, you know, just stay. We'll take care of you. Don't you worry about it. I'm sure they will. He basically said, if take him to his word he wants to run it back

0:53.6

and win a Super Bowl with Detroit. Unfinished business and I could see that if you have

0:58.9

built relationships with all these players and you feel like you were so close it'd be hard to leave so maybe

1:04.4

he just didn't have it's hard to leave a comfortable situation we have had

1:07.5

opportunities to maybe go to some other places potentially and if it's not

1:11.9

ideal you don't want to do it.

1:14.4

Yeah.

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