John Morton

Yeah, just how they, you talked about the success they had last year against him.

The solution that Brian Flores came up with against, was it John Morton? Whoever the OC was last year.

Where basically they just pinned Gibbs and pass protection.

That's something they do to so many backs, right? We see that with DeAndre Swift.

But other than that, like, I think he's been really, really strong for them.

And the execution and the cohesion has just been there in a way that it necessarily wasn't in kind of the first stretch with John Morton last season.

And the offensive line obviously has been a big part of that.

The offensive line has been – unbelievable in pass protection.

as soon as he received the handoff, is the best illustration of that.

And then as well, to address the Drew Petzing point, I think saying that he's just copy-pasting Ben Johnson's offense would be incorrect, but there's definitely... a lot that is similar.

And they tried this last year with John Morton, right? They tried to keep a lot of the things the same, but I do think they're, they're doing it again, but almost slightly different.

And the best way I can, I guess, describe that is in 2024, they were playing the Cowboys down in Dallas and they were facing like third and 10 from the plus 40.

Golf didn't look good in either game.

Now, the counter to that would be now they don't have John Morton and Dan Campbell anymore as the OC.

Now it's Drew Petzig.

So could they do better this year than they did last year because of the coordinator change? Maybe.

twice last year.

I think what you overlooked was John Morton was the offensive coordinator the first game, obviously got fired.

Dan Campbell was calling those plays the second game.

Never an offensive coordinator.

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think what you overlooked was morton john morton was the offensive coordinator the first game obviously got fired dan campbell was calling those plays the second game never offensive coordinator yes he's the head coach but never not a true offensive coordinator his whole life i think now with our offensive coordinators somewhat proven himself you know in the past and also these first six games i think that could maybe be the difference from last year

So you just think a brighter offensive mind calling the plays.

That's the difference.

I don't think so I mean a lot of miles to feed in Detroit he's coming off a game where he torched the Packers what a buck fifty and nine catches or so no I think he's fine the stats come and they go he did have a rough game against who was it the week for Arizona but the lines put up 45 points so I don't think anyone's crying about it I'm on or I was pissed but I think that's just kind of like if he's not pissed that's when you have to be like are you okay

hey man just checking in on you you seem awfully happy are you okay uh okay so what is the lions passing offense designed to do is it any different under drew petzing than it was under uh whoever john morton last year i have a little note sheet in john morton last year

I would say it's still kind of like the same basic principles.

You know, they're heavy on play action, heavy on in breaking routes, will generally take what the defense is giving you, but also wants kind of those intermediate chunks over the middle.

Um, uh, so yeah, I mean, yeah, that's what the

Google is telling me.

I do think that Petsing has had some better ideas than, than John Morton last year.

Um, maybe this is also just wishful thinking of, of just putting that God awful Christmas game, uh, behind me.

It's Dan Campbell's offense.

Who was that coordinator who lasted five games, Jim Bob Cooter? Johnny Morton.

Johnny

Morton? The wrong Johnny Morton.

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Jim

But I'm curious if we're looking at Goff and how successful he's been against Flores if his secret sauce was having Ben Johnson with him.

It didn't work with John Morton or Dan Campbell calling plays last year.

And will it work with Drew Petzing? We can only guess at this point.

We'll find out in 72 hours.