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Jones & Keefe: Is Ben Johnson the best candidate available?
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1/6/2025
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He's the guy you would, I would want the most.
00:02
I agree.
00:03
Does everybody agree with that?
00:04
617-779-7937.
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Ben Johnson, greater than everyone on the board, greater than Vrabel.
00:09
I agree.
00:10
You agree.
00:11
Do you all out there agree?
00:12
No.
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I know that they don't.
00:14
I was even seeing it on Twitter yesterday.
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We've seen it in the Twitch chat today.
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Some of the text lines.
00:17
And I think people are a little gun shy of a first year head coach because of how bad
00:21
Gerard Meyer was as a first year head coach.
00:23
I would just say there are noticeable differences between the two, noticeable, notable, both
00:30
He's a coordinator at least.
00:31
Gerard Meyer was never a coordinator and people kind of brush past that a little bit.
00:35
Then he took over and you're like, man, this guy was really only in charge of inside linebackers
00:40
and now all of a sudden he's in charge of the entire thing.
00:41
And he ran a few meetings during the week.
00:43
He never called plays.
00:44
Nope.
00:45
So like, he didn't have like one thing to really hang his hat on as a great skill set.
00:49
Whereas Ben Johnson has been, he's still young, right?
00:53
He's I think 38 or whatever.
00:55
He's right around the same age as Meyer.
00:57
But this is his third year as being full on offensive coordinator of the Detroit lions.
01:02
And everyone's like, oh, he's got great players.
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He's got great players.
01:05
Well, he wasn't the OC Dan Campbell's first year where they went three and 13.
01:11
They had Gerard Goff.
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They had Amon Ross St. Brown.
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They had some of the other guys that were on the old line.
01:17
They were the 25th offense.
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Ben Johnson takes over the next year where they have Gerard Goff, Amon Ross St. Brown,
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and a lot of the same guys, fifth ranked offense, fifth ranked offense, this year,
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best offense.
01:30
It was a slow start, but meaning his first year in Detroit, but they waited that ship
01:33
by the end of the year.
01:34
They were awesome a year ago.
01:35
Now they, I believe for the first time in franchise history are the one seed in the
01:40
NFC and they won 15 games.
01:42
And you're right.
01:43
Like, I'm not going to ignore the fact that, you know, Sonic and Knuckles are great.
01:47
And Sonic was a first round pick.
01:49
And what did we say the other week?
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Four-fifths of their offensive linemen, I believe, are first round picks.
01:55
We might've been talking about that off the air actually, but sorry, say it again.
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I was just reading some news.
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Their offensive line, four out of five are first round picks?
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Yes, yes, yes, yes.
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Like they have studs.
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I get it.
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And so if he comes here, he doesn't have all that, but to put Drake May in the hands of
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Ben Johnson and to match him up with a guy who you don't have to be afraid of losing.
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That's the problem when you have like a really good offensive coordinator and he's matched
02:14
up with the quarterback.
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Well, all of a sudden he becomes the head coaching candidate and he's gone.
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