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PFT Live with Mike Florio

Lions OC Ben Johnson speaks on staying in Detroit + more offseason trouble for Chiefs (5/31 Hour 2)

PFT Live with Mike Florio

Mike Florio

Sports

4.31.6K Ratings

🗓️ 31 May 2024

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Hour 2: Mike Florio (@ProFootballTalk) and Myles Simmons (@MylesASimmons) discuss latest news in NFL including Lions OC Ben Johnson speaks on staying in Detroit plus more offseason trouble for Chiefs, Door remains open for an eventual Commanders name change and Bears training camp will be featured on Hard Knocks this summer

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0:00.0

It's important. I hope this thing doesn't fly over. If it does and I go with it.

0:06.0

The question is, would you laugh or pick me up?

0:09.0

Could you pick me up first, then laugh?

0:17.0

Boy, that reminds me of,

0:19.0

I zipped up.

0:21.0

Uh, that's a line from Seinfeld when his mother was falling down against the wall. But anyway, I don't want to go too far down that rabbit hole, but anyway, that reminded me of something that happened recently not too far from Michigan where there was a podium, you know, when you don't really have the cash available to get the best possible venues for places where you might be standing behind a podium and talking, you might have a podium that starts to wobble and you know there's a

0:47.1

chance you're gonna fall down go boom and that did not happen then and it didn't

0:50.9

happen to Dan Campbell but I think the sequence is kind of like suppressed laughter, but also shock, make sure he's okay, and then laugh your ass off I think that's I think that would be

1:04.7

approved in you know social circles yes that mean that would be the process that I would go

1:11.5

through I mean like Dan Campbell is 6-5

1:13.5

265 like that it's gonna be hard for probably most of the media members in that

1:18.2

room to help pick them up. Like you can never be a good game. How many media members does it take to pick up a

1:25.4

fallen tan gamble because it would probably be like three or four at least? I mean I'm having images of Gulliver's travels when I think of

1:36.9

Dan Campbell in a room full of the average media person like anyway

1:41.5

Lilliputians comes to mind so anyway good thing he didn't fall over good

1:46.6

thing he's fine you know he missed the rookie mini-camp for personal reasons a few

1:49.4

weeks ago and there were some people around the league like is he okay like you Like you can't, like Dan Campbell doesn't miss anything, but he's back, he looks great,

1:55.3

he's ready to go, and the lions are ready to go.

1:57.5

Now yesterday, offensive coordinator Ben Johnson spoke to reporters.

2:01.2

Remember, it was presumed he was going to be the head coach of the

2:04.0

commanders. I think the commanders thought they were going to get him. I don't know why

2:07.8

it went sideways and I wasn't a big fan of the reporting that crapped on Ben

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