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John Morton had the opportunity to potentially work with Ben Johnson, had he not chosen to accept the offensive coordinator position with the Detroit Lions.<\/p>\n

According to the Detroit Free Press, Ben Johnson contacted Morton and wanted the veteran offensive coach to join him in Chicago.<\/p>\n

Dan Campbell and Sean Payton also wanted Morton to join and remain on their respective staffs’, something the 55-year-old was wrestling with when he was vacationing in Mexico.<\/p>\n

\u201cI didn\u2019t know Ben would call him, but I had a good hunch that Ben would call him. I mean, he\u2019d be crazy not to. That\u2019s the thing, Johnny is like a behind-the-scenes grinder. He’s not somebody that has ambition to be a head coach, he just wants to coach offensive football,” Campbell said, via the Free Press. “That\u2019s all he gives a crap about, and then just — that\u2019s it. And so anybody that\u2019s looking for somebody that\u2019s creative and is a grinder, you\u2019re going to want John Morton.\u201d<\/p>\n

Morton contacted his close confidants in football and was highlight encouraged to accept the offensive coordinator position in Detroit.<\/p>\n

Jon Gruden told reporters, when he visited Lions’ training camp, nobody would grind harder in the facility than Morton.<\/p>\n

Detroit’s newest coordinator arrives at the team’s Allen Park Performance Center at 3:30 a.m. every day to begin his work, preparation for the day.<\/p>\n

Morton credited Gruden for advancing the priciples of the West Coast offense.<\/p>\n

“Everything about the game,” Morton explained. “Jon was like, the West Coast offense of Bill Walsh and Mike Holmgren’s of the world. He was the first one to kind of venture off, still running the West Coast type of principles but with different formations, shifts and motions and things like that. It opens your eyes to the whole aspect of everything.”<\/p>\n

Campbell is hoping having two new coordinators can be just the spark the team needs heading into the 2025 NFL season.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis could be like just the perfect, the right time for all this to go down. A couple of new coordinators. We\u2019re still doing a lot of things that we\u2019ve done here,” said Campbell. “We\u2019re keeping really the foundation of what I believe, what we believe, but there\u2019s a few wrinkles in, right? So I just think sometimes change can, it can give you a little bit of a spark. And what I\u2019m excited about is to see how far we\u2019ve come as a staff with this group of players and the work they\u2019ve put in.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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