Despite Johnson’s intelligence, Schlereth sees Campbell’s fingerprints all over the club’s offensive scheme.
“Where I don’t think Dan gets enough credit–he understands that offense,” said Schlereth. “I was calling games when he was still kinda calling plays and transitioning to Ben Johnson.”
Schlereth continued, “Dan has got a very heavy hand on the way that offense is structured, the way they run that offense, he’s big into that. The guy is very smart when it comes to X’s and O’s, how to use personnel to do all those things.”
The former guard continued by saying the Lions’ offense over the last few years may be heavily influenced by Johnson, but their roots come before him, courtesy of Campbell.
“What you’ve seen over the last couple years isn’t just, ‘hey Ben Johnson take over and run the show,’ it is very much that Dan Campbell is involved in that,” said Schlereth. “So he’ll get back, more involved in this offense as well, to make sure it continues to run the way he has established it from the beginning.”
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From his lips to god’s ears
It’s exhausting trying to explain this to people when they say Ben made our offense or Dan isn’t a smart coach. And it’s mostly people outside the fanbase who just don’t know how this team and staff was built from the beginning. I know we sucked that first year but Dan really laid down that foundation of culture and collaboration
Same for Aaron Glenn. I dunno why these two all
The sudden got elevated to the level of savant but there were many hands at work. And the defense wasn’t all that in Glenn’s time here