{"id":15745,"date":"2025-02-28T15:39:48","date_gmt":"2025-02-28T15:39:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/breakingnews.azontree.com\/?p=15745"},"modified":"2025-02-28T15:39:48","modified_gmt":"2025-02-28T15:39:48","slug":"breaking-lions-respond-to-news-of-ben-johnson-disrespecting-detroit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/breakingnews.azontree.com\/?p=15745","title":{"rendered":"BREAKING: Lions Respond to News of Ben Johnson Disrespecting Detroit"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"post-featured-container-id\">\n<div id=\"post-featured\">\n<div>\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/GettyImages-2201949880-1.jpg?quality=65&amp;strip=all&amp;w=780\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 820px) 95vw, 780px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/GettyImages-2201949880-1.jpg?quality=65&amp;strip=all&amp;w=780 780w, https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/GettyImages-2201949880-1.jpg?quality=15&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1100 1100w, https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/GettyImages-2201949880-1.jpg?quality=65&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1350 1350w\" alt=\"Lions Respond to News of Ben Johnson Disrespecting Detroit\" width=\"780\" height=\"439\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Getty<\/p>\n<p>During the NFL Scouting Combine, Ben Johnson appeared to throw some shade at the Detroit Lions, and some players aren&#8217;t happy about it.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The Detroit Lions have some challenges up ahead this season, since their coaching staff has gone through quite a transformation. Most notably, the team lost offensive coordinator Ben Johnson to the Chicago Bears and defensive coordinator Aaron Glenn to the New York Jets, so the makeup of their highest tier of coaches will look very different than last year.<\/p>\n<p>During the NFL Scouting Combine this week, Johnson appeared to throw some shade at the Lions, and some Lions players aren\u2019t too happy about it. Can you blame them?<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2>Ben Johnson Discusses His New Quarterback<\/h2>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thespun.com\/.image\/t_share\/MjAzOTk4NDE2MjYxMzU5MTY0\/green-bay-packers-v-detroit-lions.jpg\" alt=\"Ben Johnson Denies Intentionally Trying To Disrespect His Opponents - The  Spun\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Talking to reporters at the NFL Scouting Combine in Indianapolis on Tuesday, February 25, Johnson played up his new quarterback, Caleb Williams, and the player\u2019s abilities. At the same time, he seemed, in a sense, to put down Detroit.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOut of structure, the off-schedule, the creation\u2026that\u2019s what stands out the most because that\u2019s really the way that this league is going right now,\u201d Johnson said about Williams. \u201cIt seems like as much as you want to make it pure progression, one to two to three, there\u2019s just too much variety.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s when things get a bit shady. Johnson added, \u201cThe pass rush is coming down and to have an athlete like Caleb extend the play and potentially find an explosive down the field. That\u2019s what gets me going a little bit. I get excited thinking about that, because I haven\u2019t been around that since I\u2019ve been in the league.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He hasn\u2019t been around that since he\u2019s been in the league, heh? Of course, Williams and Lions quarterback Jared Goff are different kinds of quarterbacks. Williams is more mobile, and Goff is more of a pocket passer. But, there\u2019s no denying that Goff had a stellar season last season and broke plenty of NFL and franchise records.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2>Johnson vs. Detroit Lions<\/h2>\n<p>Johnson also threw some shade at the Lions\u2019 defense, stating that was hard to watch them go up against certain quarterbacks who get outside of the pocket. For example, even though the Lions beat the Chicago Bears in both of their matchups last season, Williams had stellar games, throwing for 590 yards, five touchdowns and zero interceptions. He also ran 10 times for 73 yards.<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-9\">\u201cI\u2019ve been on the other side, and I\u2019ve experienced it,\u201d Johnson said. \u201cIt\u2019s demoralizing when you\u2019re on the other side and you\u2019re watching that happen to your defense.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>So, that\u2019s Johnson\u2019s take on how it\u2019s more difficult for a defense to handle a quarterback like Williams, as opposed to a pocket passer, such as Goff.<\/p>\n<p>These comments didn\u2019t bode well for some Lions players, and for good reason. Defenders Kerby Joseph and Amik Robertson had a few things to say about his comments. Joseph took to X to share a picture of Peter Griffin lurking, reacting to Johnson\u2019s remarks. Robertson also responded on X, quoting the post and writing the caption, \u201cYah feel me\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n<p>So, while Johnson has a shiny new quarterback that he seems all goggle-eyed over, his comments are likely giving the Lions more motivation to shut Chicago down next season and contain Williams. Let\u2019s go.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During the NFL Scouting Combine, Ben Johnson appeared to throw some shade at the Detroit Lions, and some players aren&#8217;t happy about it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":15746,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-detroit-lions"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>BREAKING: Lions Respond to News of Ben Johnson Disrespecting Detroit - Breaking News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/breakingnews.azontree.com\/?p=15745\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"BREAKING: Lions Respond to News of Ben Johnson Disrespecting Detroit - 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