While the Detroit Lions have yet to make the hiring of offensive coordinator Drew Petzing official, one player has already offered his first thoughts on the hire.<\/p>\n
During his weekly podcast with his brother, Lions receiver Amon-Ra St. Brown provided a little insight into the Petzing hire, what he heard from quarterback Jared Goff, and a brief conversation he\u2019s already had with the Lions new offensive coordinator.<\/p>\n
This weekend, St. Brown said he was getting antsy waiting to hear who his next offensive coordinator will be, so he hit up someone he\u2019d knew would have an inside look into the process: the quarterback. While nothing was official yet, Goff did bring up Petzing\u2019s name and provided some insight to St. Brown.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe said he was good. He\u2019s smart,\u201d St. Brown said. \u201cAlthough they didn\u2019t have the best offense, he does a lot of good stuff.\u201d<\/p>\n
St. Brown then went into doing his own research, and was fascinated to see that Petzing has a shared history with former Lions offensive coordinator Ben Johnson.<\/p>\n
\u201cCome to find out he was actually at Boston College with Ben Johnson, which is crazy,\u201d St. Brown said. \u201cAnd he was a groomsman at Ben Johnson\u2019s wedding. So, that\u2019s actually really ironic.\u201d<\/p>\n
Then, he got the text from coach Dan Campbell confirming the hiring was happening.<\/p>\n
\u201cI just want to let you know we\u2019re hiring Drew Petzing as our OC. He\u2019s going to be great for us,\u201d St. Brown said, recalling the text.<\/p>\n
Earlier this week, St. Brown got a call from Petzing himself, and they had a little conversation, both personal and football-related. Here\u2019s what St. Brown had to say about his first impression of the new Lions offensive coordinator.<\/p>\n
\u201cBasically, he just wanted to say what\u2019s up to me. He told me he was excited, I told him, \u2018I\u2019m excited, too. Let\u2019s get to work.\u2019 It was just catch(ing) up, small talk,\u201d St. Brown. \u201cThat was it. He just wanted to check and introduce himself. So, I appreciate him for that, and, honestly, I\u2019m excited. I think it\u2019s going to be great for us. I trust Dan. I trust all of the decision-makers for the Lions. I think they do a great job, so I\u2019m excited for him.\u201d<\/p>\n
In between hearing the news and talking to Petzing himself, St. Brown also saw a wave a negative reactions from the fans. And the Lions All-Pro receiver had a pretty strong message to those who were being overly critical of the hire.<\/p>\n
\u201cI see crazy Lions fans talking crazy like, \u2018Oh why would we do this?\u2019 Bro, do you guy have no trust in Dan and the Lions? Do you think they would just hire a random dude? Be for real,\u201d St. Brown said. \u201cYou think they don\u2019t know what they\u2019re doing? They don\u2019t do the research? They don\u2019t interviews?<\/p>\n
\u201cMost of you guys don\u2019t know know really much about anything about any ball,\u201d St. Brown continued. \u201cAnd you\u2019re tweeting about a coach that was hired that you guys don\u2019t like because of\u2014X,Y,Z. It\u2019s just funny for me to see. Don\u2019t get me wrong, I love all Lions fans, but they are so quick to make judgments about who we hire, we did this. Bro, just relax, calm down, let the whole thing play out. Just let it play out, relax.\u201d<\/p>\n
You can watch the entire podcast below. The conversation about Petzing starts around the 27:15 mark.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"While the Detroit Lions have yet to make the hiring of offensive coordinator Drew Petzing official, one player…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":694626,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2071],"tags":[146,113,153,1889,2506,7,147,6],"class_list":{"0":"post-694625","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-detroit-lions","8":"tag-detroit","9":"tag-detroit-lions","10":"tag-detroit-lions-news","11":"tag-detroit-lions-quotes","12":"tag-detroitlions","13":"tag-football","14":"tag-lions","15":"tag-nfl"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115935070420238926","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/694625","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=694625"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/694625\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/694626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=694625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=694625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=694625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}