Detroit Lions Potential Struggles with Staff CHanges

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00:00because of all the talk about who's gone

00:02from that offensive coaching staff

00:05and even the defensive coaching staff

00:06with Ben Johnson and Aaron Glenn now being head coaches.

00:10Well, maybe we learned something here.

00:14Maybe.

00:15I mean, it's a Hall of Fame game,

00:16but boy, the Lions looked awful.

00:19I mean, they really, really did.

00:21Where are you right now on this Detroit Lions team

00:23with all of this turnover?

00:25Good, not great.

00:26And here's where I may shock you.

00:28And we did learn something.

00:29Kyle Allen is absolutely terrible.

00:31He should not even be a backup quarterback in the league.

00:33Okay.

00:3491 yards, two interceptions,

00:35going back to his days at Texas A&M.

00:38When I look at this team

00:39and you look at the playmakers that they have offensively,

00:43Goff, Jameer Gibbs, St. Brown, and Jamison Williams,

00:46they could score with anyone.

00:48Are they going to be as explosive now without Ben Johnson,

00:52even though it might be the same system,

00:54might be the same scheme,

00:55when you have a new OC, new DC,

00:58that's a huge test to overcome.

01:01And Philadelphia started 10-1 a couple of years ago

01:04and limped to a 1-5 record at the end of the regular season

01:07and got knocked and bounced by your Tampa Bay Buccaneers.

01:11Right?

01:11You know that as well as anybody.

01:13And people will say, well, it doesn't matter.

01:14They're on the staff.

01:15Yeah, but coordinators need to understand how that talent responds.

01:19They have to call a game plan around that talent,

01:21and they have to get into a rhythm.

01:23And sometimes that could happen a couple games in.

01:26It could happen a month in.

01:28Might never happen.

01:29And that's where I think the inconsistency can lie in the Detroit Lions

01:33as it relates to a 14, a 15-win football team,

01:37number one in the NFC like they were last year.

01:40I think they have the potential, believe it or not,

01:42to be a 10-win football team.

01:44I think potentially Green Bay could catch them in the division.

01:47I really believe that.

01:49And I would bet at 2-1 that they have a better shot to miss the playoffs

01:52than make the playoffs.

01:54I'm willing to make that bet because I think there's a lot of pressure

01:58on this team.

01:58And we're not talking about, hear me out, San Francisco or Philadelphia,

02:04a storied franchise.

02:05We are talking about the Detroit Lions that have had success under Dan Campbell.

02:11They haven't won a Super Bowl, haven't even played in it.

02:14They got to the pinnacle, had San Francisco dead to rights,

02:18and they can't put them away.

02:20And now they lose last year after the first round, number one seed.

02:25And now there's pressure on to get back there.

02:28I think they're regressing.

02:29Yeah, I think the Philly comparisons, it can kind of go both ways

02:35because there's this expected step back.

02:39We know there's offensive line exits, right?

02:41Jason Kelsey had retired from Philadelphia.

02:44We know that.

02:45We saw the Ragnar retirement, plus Seitler moving on as well,

02:48joining Tennessee.

02:50There's the coordinator overhaul.

02:52There's a defense that was really, really bad.

02:55But I look at it, Joe, and there's a lot of room for improvement

02:58with the double safety pairing.

03:01Terion Arnold, who was supposed to be very good at Alabama,

03:03could maybe get a year-two leap.

03:05Getting Aiden Hutchinson is important.

03:07They spent their first-round draft pick on a defensive tackle

03:09in Williams out of Ohio State.

03:11So I don't worry about Aaron Glenn's departure as much

03:15because I just think there's more talent ultimately.

03:17And I don't know if I was ever fully sold on Aaron Glenn,

03:20the defensive coordinator, even if I think he can be good for the Jets.

03:24But the difference is Philly's coordinator turnover two seasons ago

03:29is because they had to fire everybody because they were all bad.

03:31But when Philly lost coordinators, because they were great in Gannon and Steikton,

03:37they were awful.

03:38And that's the comparison for what Detroit walks into.

03:42And that's where the offensive line stuff is a little more concerning

03:46because now what if Jared Goff doesn't have the protection

03:50or the overseer in Ben Johnson?

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