That's the story today. We've got quotes from M Live Ben Johnson explaining himself.

Why didn't he want the Washington commander job or the Seattle Seahawk job?

Rico, I'm going to give these to you.

And I want your reaction, I want people's reaction, because I was confused.

I'm not complaining, but I was confused that he's staying.

It's great news.

His explanation, quote, I talked to my wife about it and we just came to a really good discussion of hey, you know, we're happy with where we are. We love where we are. We love being in Detroit, love the people here, and decided to go ahead and just put the brakes on it right now.

Just wasn't the time for us.

I think some people, and I can just speak on a personal level, some people, they really want to climb as fast as they can

I know particularly young coaches want to do that that's not been the case for me

per se I want to be around football I want to win football games I want to be around football. I want to win football games. I want to be around good people and when I finally

had the chance to step back and take a deep breath and look at it, that was the most important thing. He went on to say,

quote, I love Dan Campbell.

I've known him for a long time.

I believe in him in the direction of the organization,

and that was the biggest drawing point for me to come back

was what we have here and what we're building here. It's something I want to be a part of.

I've been a part of a number of losing seasons in my 11 years in the NFL.

What a statement it is about the state of this organization?

It is. I mean, look, him and his wife talked about it. I would have taken the job.

There's only 32 of these and sometimes you have to strike why the iron is hot and yeah you

thinking to yourself it's gonna this party's gonna last for some years and and then

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