Lions OC Ben Johnson Had a Rough Game on Sunday I BMitch & Finlay

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JP and BMitch discuss the Lions suspect play calling on Sunday, ranging from using David Montgomery over Jahmyr Gibbs and running too many gimmick plays.

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00:00Everybody said they wanted Ben Johnson, if Ben Johnson made the decision to put Montgomery

00:09in the game and take Gibbs out of the game, I'm glad we didn't get him.

00:13That's the dumbest move in the world.

00:15What about...

00:16Because, bruh, Gibbs is a problem.

00:20Gibbs is a combination...

00:21But they've done that all year, where they've been operating close.

00:23Yeah, but this kid just came off an injury.

00:26Gibbs had...

00:27The first play of the game, that was BS, because Gibbs had just put four or five touchdowns

00:31up for you in two games.

00:33Gibbs had 175 yards from scrimmage in that game with two touchdowns.

00:36He averaged well over nine yards of play or something.

00:42What I think...

00:44The dumbest sequence of events for Detroit, I think the play call and then the execution

00:49was probably worse.

00:51You are gashing, gashing Washington with Gibbs.

00:54Just absolutely killing them.

00:56They averaged nine yards of carry, 8.7 yards per carry.

01:00You get early in the fourth quarter and you decide to run a double reverse wide receiver

01:06throwback.

01:07Yeah.

01:08Which he should have never thrown.

01:09You're averaging nine yards a pop.

01:11You're in this game.

01:12Then Jameson Williams should never have thrown that football, but he's way out of his element.

01:17Don't put him in the position to make that decision.

01:20He's not a quarterback.

01:21Okay.

01:22If he had been a quarterback in college, let's say that, you can understand, because he knows

01:25how to throw it away or whatever.

01:27But I said one thing to you, and I say it a lot of times, once a team puts up touchdowns

01:34and they start to separate, I don't care who you are in this league.

01:40You can be the best of the best when it comes down to coordinators, you start chasing.

01:45And for Ben Johnson, he used some last play of the game.

01:50We got to get something done, get our trickeration in that game, because they were being beat

01:57by a team that was just beating you with their regular stuff.

02:00So he had to go in his bag, as they say, and going into his bag didn't work for him.

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