John Morton
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Sep 15, 2026
Mike FlorioHOST
If Payton does take back the play calling duties, it's impossible to hide.
Mike FlorioHOST
Last year, that's how it was spotted that Dan Campbell had reclaimed the play calling duties from Jon Morton.
Mike FlorioHOST
He put on his glasses and he's holding the card up to his face.
Chris SimmsHOST
Yeah.
Michael GreyHOST
"Jamison Williams put together back-to-back 1,000-yard seasons.
Michael GreyHOST
He was at 1,117 yards a year ago, and that was with one John Morton tied behind his back.
Michael GreyHOST
Imagine what it'll be like when you don't spend the first six weeks of the season forgetting that he's in the damn offense." So for the record, I still believe that.
Michael GreyHOST
I still believe that Jamison Williams unlocks this offense for Drew Petzing.
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Michael GreyHOST
And all of us got to watch the first six weeks of the season while the lions offense did some things, but never really looked in sync.
Michael GreyHOST
They were a top three, top five, top 10 type unit in a year where they got rid of their offensive coordinator a year ago, six weeks into the season.
Michael GreyHOST
And by all accounts, no one was really ever on board with John Morton.
Michael GreyHOST
They still managed to score a lot of points and run up a lot of yards.
Jeff ChadihaGUEST
It may be some, you know, committee approach to it or some discussion about what happens, but ultimately he's the one dialing the stuff up.
Jeff ChadihaGUEST
And when, when you're sitting there and you're in a game like this, and you wanna start, get off to a strong start, it's, it's gotta eat at you a little bit, you know? I l- I think about Dan Campbell with the Lions, uh, last year, where he had a, a play caller in to replace Ben Johnson and John Morton, and then they were scoring like 28, 30 points a game, and he was like, "This doesn't feel right.
Jeff ChadihaGUEST
We're not, I don't like what we're doing here."
Steven St. JohnHOST
Yeah.
Mike ValentiHOST
You know, you tried to replace Ben Johnson.
Mike ValentiHOST
Dan body bagged John Morton in 10 seconds.
Mike ValentiHOST
"Ah, but the numbers..." Look, you know that offense wasn't what it was, and the offensive line was a big problem.
Mike ValentiHOST
Now, this year, I like Drew Petzing.
Michael GreyHOST
This is what we did last season with Jameson Williams for six weeks when we changed offensive coordinators.
Michael GreyHOST
And, and John Morton was out there and everybody forgot that he was on the offense.
Michael GreyHOST
He was just not a part of things at all.
ChrisHOST
Yes.
CodyHOST
yeah no for sure matt same question to you um what was your kind of first reaction to bringing in pet sing and how do you think it's going to go well for this offense
MattGUEST
well we'll say that uh anyone not named john morton could come in and um so my uh my first choice for offensive coordinator was actually mike kafka that was the guy that i really wanted and when they went with drew petzing my initial response was Who? And then, you know, I started looking into pitching and I got really excited about what I saw on the Cardinals tape.
MattGUEST
And I mean, Cody, you know that I'm kind of a film junkie.
MattGUEST
And when I played, I was an offensive lineman.
MattGUEST
You know, we just have a few pieces in there that you have questions about individually, but the real question will be as a unit.
MattGUEST
And I think that that's one of the things, one of the reasons I'm so excited about seeing what Petsy can do is because I think that last year we saw a unit that was kind of mixed matched with, you know, the center and the Frank situation.
MattGUEST
And then we saw John Morton basically saying like, well, the rest of you have to step up then.
MattGUEST
And it didn't work out very well.
Jeff MosherHOST
I just don't know that I believe in them defensively enough.
Jeff MosherHOST
But if they're good, if I'm wrong, if the defense plays above its – talent or personnel then they will challenge the bucks to win that division um not as high on the panthers repeating after their eight and nine season but yeah the saints went six and eleven but again did really well at the end of the year the lions are a team that are they're gonna they finish with all the talent that they have they wind up finishing in third place um and they've they hired drew petzing as their offensive coordinator which i give dan campbell credit for you know last year he hired a coaching buddy who he had coached with john morton okay it didn't work out he fired him took over play calling this year he cast a wider net he wound up hiring a guy in drew petzing who had done a pretty decent job with arizona's offense earlier when he was there before you know they had to bench kyler and you know their offensive line fell apart and But there was a stretch there where Arizona, earlier in Jonathan Gannon's head coaching career, was starting to look like they were on the come up.
Jeff MosherHOST
But Petzing was considered a big reason for that.
Jeff MosherHOST
So he's going to bring – he's going to come over to the Lions.
Don CrickeyHOST
Well,
Alan PinkettHOST
great play call by Johnny Morton, offensive coordinator for USC.
Alan PinkettHOST
This is a team that's rushing for over 200 yards, got one of the best offensive lines in the country, and they do play-action pass on third and one.
Alan PinkettHOST
Fooled everybody in the house.
Ben RavenGUEST
I don't think it's going to be sweeping changes to the offense.
Ben RavenGUEST
I think it's just going to be a new take on the offense because we're hearing all the things that we used to hear before the John Morton hire didn't really work out that we used to hear with Jared Goff and Ben Johnson is that Drew Petsing and Goff are working on this offense together.
Ben RavenGUEST
Jared's voice is very much at the table.
Ben RavenGUEST
It is.
Matt ShepardHOST
We've talked in our markets, Matt, about the improvement needed from Calvin Shepard as a defensive coordinator.
Matt ShepardHOST
and the adjustment that this offense may make with Drew Petzig now as the OC rather than John Morton.
Matt ShepardHOST
If I positioned it that way for New Orleans, how does Kellen Moore have to improve, and what does he need to see from his coordinators this year that maybe he didn't see last?
Matthew ParasGUEST
Yeah, I mean, so, you know, obviously they have an offensive coordinator, Doug Nussmeyer, but Kellen Moore is the play caller.
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