Monday Overreaction: ‘The Lions need to end the John Morton experiment now and not later’
I don’t know what I was thinking. Every year, I totally forget that there are Detroit Lions fans who will overreact in the biggest way possible. This week, there are some fans who are calling for the Lions to fire John Morton after, checks notes, one game. Firing Lions offensive coordinator John Morton is a […]
I don’t know what I was thinking. Every year, I totally forget that there are Detroit Lions fans who will overreact in the biggest way possible. This week, there are some fans who are calling for the Lions to fire John Morton after, checks notes, one game.
Firing Lions offensive coordinator John Morton is a major overreaction
If there’s one thing I’m not going to do, it’s make an excuse for the Lions’ offense. That was incredibly bad. I’d go even further to say that Morton deserves a lot of blame, and he called an overly conservative game and didn’t move off of what was clearly not working. Having said that, there are several contributing factors here, and Morton’s conservative play call is just one of them.
The other is that this offensive line was not ready for this game, and it showed. It couldn’t stop pressure, and it couldn’t open holes, which shut down the entire offense. That might have been a reason that the Lions looked a little more conservative and went with things that were safer to try to avoid turnovers. At a certain point, chances needed to be taken, and the Lions didn’t do that.
But come on, a firing? For that? In the grand scheme, that wasn’t even that bad. The Lions had far worse games with Ben Johnson early on in his run and even during it, too. Did everyone forget the Lions losing to the Bailey Zappe-led Patriots 29-0 in 2022? What about the 24-6 loss to the Cowboys the next week? Or the 38-6 loss to the Ravens in 2023?
Nobody got fired for those games, and as Lions head coach Dan Campbell brought up after Sunday’s game, people wanted Johnson fired early in the season in 2022. Look what happened when the Lions gave him more than one game or gave him more than a few games.
With all that said, we know the Lions aren’t totally against letting an OC go during the season. They did that with Anthony Lynn in 2021, but that was a much different story with a much different team. But if the Lions get to late October or November and things have gone super downhill, maybe they’d make a change. But they won’t after one week, and they definitely shouldn’t do it after one week. This is a major overreaction.
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