The Detroit Lions won the NFC North in consecutive seasons, ending with the third best overall attack in 2023 and the first score unit in 2024 when the team collected an average of 33.2 points per game. Now, the Lions will try to claim the division for a third consecutive season with a coache personnel reworked after losing the defensive coordinator Aaron Glenn at the New York Jets and the offensive architect Ben Johnson at the Chicago Bears.
Head coach Dan Campbell began to rebuild his staff during the offseason, hiring John Morton as a new offensive coordinator of the Lions. Morton has spent the last two seasons as a passing game coordinator for Denver Broncos under Sean Payton. However, before landing in Denver, Morton was the main offensive assistant with the Lions in 2022, offering him the opportunity to work with the quarterrier Jared Goff while Johnson directed the offensive.
Morton believes that familiarity benefit While trying to maintain the Detroit offensive. “I think it’s big because it all starts with the quarter-tree … Just know it-and when I was here, I was in the quarter-arre room. So, I have an idea of what he likes, what he doesn’t like. It is important as a game player. We will continue here when the players will return and all that, so I will know more about him and the pieces he really likes and what they have done here ”, a Explained Morton, by Kevin Patra from NFL.com.
Can Lions resume where Ben Johnson had stopped?
Morton experienced two separate relays with Payton in New Orleans where he observed how the offensive was centered on Drew Brees. He intends to build the Lions offensive around Goff’s forces, adopting an approach similar to that of the coach he succeeds in Detroit.
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While Morton certainly provides a great experience as a coach to his new role, he will have to adapt to call games. He was the game player for the jets when he worked as an offensive coordinator of the Todd Bowles team in 2017. However, he has not called games since then. In fact, Morton’s only other passage as an attacking coordinator returned in 2009-10 when he spent two seasons in the role of the Trojan horses of the USC.
Campbell certainly takes a chance to replace an offensive coach much appreciated in Ben Johnson with the Morton much less announced. But with the leadership of Campbell and the knowledge of Goff of the offense while he enters his fifth year with the Lions, the organization thinks that it can resume where it had stopped after finishing 15-2 Last season.
Although the 2024 campaign ended with disappointment because Detroit was surprisingly sent to the division round by Washington commanders, the team hopes that this can avoid the touch of injuries it suffered last year , in particular on the defensive side of the ball.
Good health as well as certain key acquisitions of free agents could be crucial for Lions with their domination in the NFC North. Perhaps the reshuffle of staff will even lead to the success of the qualifiers which has escaped the organization for so long.
