Detroit Lions Run Epic Trick Play Against Chicago Bears

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Detroit Lions run very unique trick play against Chicago Bears.

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00:00How fun Christian is this offense?

00:02My goodness, trick plays galore,

00:04and probably, arguably one of the best

00:07that was executed was against the Chicago Bears.

00:10It was a wild thing to see when you see a football play

00:13that involves Jared Goff falling down, stumbling,

00:17and then you see the drop and roll from Jameer Gibbs.

00:20I think at first, it did look like a broken play at first,

00:23but then when you went back and looked at it right away,

00:26you're not gonna see two football players stumble

00:28on the same play.

00:29It rarely happens like that.

00:30So I think people caught on pretty quickly

00:33that that was a trick play,

00:34and then it was crafted beautifully

00:37to have Sam Laporta be wide open.

00:39And then when you see just how this play originated,

00:43it goes to the level of how much Ben Johnson

00:47and that offense can go back and look at tape and film

00:50and exploit weaknesses.

00:52Christian, it's wild.

00:53That was a play that originated,

00:55the stumble-bump play originated

00:57when the Packers' Jordan Love stumbled,

00:59dropped the football,

01:00and still was able to complete a pass

01:02to an open Packers offensive player.

01:05It was unbelievable that they were able to pull that off.

01:08And what's wild is Ben Johnson reportedly

01:11went to Jared Goff and said,

01:12hey, can you kind of replicate that?

01:13Can you drop the football?

01:14And I think Jared Goff was like,

01:15ah, that's probably the ultimate gamble

01:17that you don't wanna take,

01:18because if you drop the football

01:20and you accidentally kick it or stumble over your own feet,

01:23you're gonna have a situation

01:24which is gonna look completely ridiculous.

01:26So the play in which, the way in which it ended up looking,

01:30I thought was hilarious with all the lines yelling,

01:34football, football, fumble, fumble,

01:35and the Bears defense bit,

01:38and unbelievable imagination to try a trick play like that.

01:43Stumble-bump, I think is gonna go down there,

01:46go down as one of the best Lions trick plays of the season,

01:49and another one notched in the creative belt of Ben Johnson.

01:53My goodness.

01:54What was your reaction when you saw it?

01:55Did you at first think,

01:56it was an unusual play, or did you say right away,

01:59okay, something's up here

02:00when Jared Goff and Jameer Gibbs stumble on the ground?

02:03Yeah, no, I was tipped off to the fact

02:06that it could have been planned

02:07because of the Jameer Gibbs kind of barrel roll

02:10there at that play.

02:11Like, it's one thing for Goff to trip

02:13coming out from under center.

02:14We've seen that before with the Packers game

02:16when he handed it off to Montgomery and he fell down.

02:18So that wasn't necessarily out of the ordinary,

02:21but when Jameer Gibbs hits the barrel roll,

02:23that's when you kind of know,

02:24okay, this might be staged a little bit.

02:26And you have to give him an A-plus for the acting.

02:29Give him the Oscar for the acting there on that play.

02:32It was incredible.

02:33Like, I thought that Jameer Gibbs rolling his barrel roll

02:37was what sold the play.

02:39You heard Jared Goff talk about it after the game,

02:42and Sam Laporta just comes wide open.

02:44And if you look at how they scheme the play and the route,

02:47like, Jameson Williams runs the corner off in zone coverage,

02:52and that clears up the whole left side of the field

02:55for Sam Laporta.

02:56And you see the Bears defense kind of react

02:57for an instant to the hypothetical fake fumble.

03:01And then by the time they figured out that it's a fake,

03:04Sam Laporta's running wide open into the end zone.

03:06And I have to say,

03:07we've seen a ton of trick plays from the Lions this season.

03:10David Montgomery's thrown a touchdown pass.

03:12They've done the end around to Penesol

03:14trying to get him to throw the ball.

03:16We've seen hook and ladders and flea flickers.

03:18This is number one for me.

03:20And the reason that is,

03:21is because we've seen different variants

03:24of hook and ladder, reverse pass, things like that,

03:28over the course of however many years we've been doing this.

03:31But the fact that Ben Johnson found a play

03:34when watching film that wasn't choreographed,

03:37it was simply a fumble that turned into a huge play,

03:39and said, you know what?

03:40We can turn this into a big play.

03:42All we gotta do is replicate it.

03:44And he staged that entire thing.

03:46Like, that is a one of one

03:47original creative concept for him.

03:49And I think that that's another feather in his cap.

03:52Was Ben Johnson auditioning

03:53for the head coaching job in Chicago?

03:56Who's to say?

03:57The Lions still have a playoff run in front of them.

04:00He obviously can't go through the interview process

04:03until the post-season.

04:04I believe it's after the first week of the playoffs

04:07that the interviews can start.

04:09But at the same time, a lot of Chicago Bears fans,

04:12while the loss had to sting,

04:14are probably excited about the proposition

04:16of potentially him being their head coach moving forward.

04:19I have my doubts on whether or not Ben Johnson

04:21would go to a division rival.

04:23But really, I thought that was

04:25an A plus spectacular performance

04:27for the Lions on Sunday,

04:29specifically on that trick play.

04:31That was awesome.

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