Detroit Lions run very unique trick play against Chicago Bears.
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00:00How fun Christian is this offense?
00:02My goodness, trick plays galore,
00:04and probably, arguably one of the best
00:07that was executed was against the Chicago Bears.
00:10It was a wild thing to see when you see a football play
00:13that involves Jared Goff falling down, stumbling,
00:17and then you see the drop and roll from Jameer Gibbs.
00:20I think at first, it did look like a broken play at first,
00:23but then when you went back and looked at it right away,
00:26you're not gonna see two football players stumble
00:28on the same play.
00:29It rarely happens like that.
00:30So I think people caught on pretty quickly
00:33that that was a trick play,
00:34and then it was crafted beautifully
00:37to have Sam Laporta be wide open.
00:39And then when you see just how this play originated,
00:43it goes to the level of how much Ben Johnson
00:47and that offense can go back and look at tape and film
00:50and exploit weaknesses.
00:52Christian, it's wild.
00:53That was a play that originated,
00:55the stumble-bump play originated
00:57when the Packers' Jordan Love stumbled,
00:59dropped the football,
01:00and still was able to complete a pass
01:02to an open Packers offensive player.
01:05It was unbelievable that they were able to pull that off.
01:08And what's wild is Ben Johnson reportedly
01:11went to Jared Goff and said,
01:12hey, can you kind of replicate that?
01:13Can you drop the football?
01:14And I think Jared Goff was like,
01:15ah, that's probably the ultimate gamble
01:17that you don't wanna take,
01:18because if you drop the football
01:20and you accidentally kick it or stumble over your own feet,
01:23you're gonna have a situation
01:24which is gonna look completely ridiculous.
01:26So the play in which, the way in which it ended up looking,
01:30I thought was hilarious with all the lines yelling,
01:34football, football, fumble, fumble,
01:35and the Bears defense bit,
01:38and unbelievable imagination to try a trick play like that.
01:43Stumble-bump, I think is gonna go down there,
01:46go down as one of the best Lions trick plays of the season,
01:49and another one notched in the creative belt of Ben Johnson.
01:53My goodness.
01:54What was your reaction when you saw it?
01:55Did you at first think,
01:56it was an unusual play, or did you say right away,
01:59okay, something's up here
02:00when Jared Goff and Jameer Gibbs stumble on the ground?
02:03Yeah, no, I was tipped off to the fact
02:06that it could have been planned
02:07because of the Jameer Gibbs kind of barrel roll
02:10there at that play.
02:11Like, it's one thing for Goff to trip
02:13coming out from under center.
02:14We've seen that before with the Packers game
02:16when he handed it off to Montgomery and he fell down.
02:18So that wasn't necessarily out of the ordinary,
02:21but when Jameer Gibbs hits the barrel roll,
02:23that's when you kind of know,
02:24okay, this might be staged a little bit.
02:26And you have to give him an A-plus for the acting.
02:29Give him the Oscar for the acting there on that play.
02:32It was incredible.
02:33Like, I thought that Jameer Gibbs rolling his barrel roll
02:37was what sold the play.
02:39You heard Jared Goff talk about it after the game,
02:42and Sam Laporta just comes wide open.
02:44And if you look at how they scheme the play and the route,
02:47like, Jameson Williams runs the corner off in zone coverage,
02:52and that clears up the whole left side of the field
02:55for Sam Laporta.
02:56And you see the Bears defense kind of react
02:57for an instant to the hypothetical fake fumble.
03:01And then by the time they figured out that it's a fake,
03:04Sam Laporta's running wide open into the end zone.
03:06And I have to say,
03:07we've seen a ton of trick plays from the Lions this season.
03:10David Montgomery's thrown a touchdown pass.
03:12They've done the end around to Penesol
03:14trying to get him to throw the ball.
03:16We've seen hook and ladders and flea flickers.
03:18This is number one for me.
03:20And the reason that is,
03:21is because we've seen different variants
03:24of hook and ladder, reverse pass, things like that,
03:28over the course of however many years we've been doing this.
03:31But the fact that Ben Johnson found a play
03:34when watching film that wasn't choreographed,
03:37it was simply a fumble that turned into a huge play,
03:39and said, you know what?
03:40We can turn this into a big play.
03:42All we gotta do is replicate it.
03:44And he staged that entire thing.
03:46Like, that is a one of one
03:47original creative concept for him.
03:49And I think that that's another feather in his cap.
03:52Was Ben Johnson auditioning
03:53for the head coaching job in Chicago?
03:56Who's to say?
03:57The Lions still have a playoff run in front of them.
04:00He obviously can't go through the interview process
04:03until the post-season.
04:04I believe it's after the first week of the playoffs
04:07that the interviews can start.
04:09But at the same time, a lot of Chicago Bears fans,
04:12while the loss had to sting,
04:14are probably excited about the proposition
04:16of potentially him being their head coach moving forward.
04:19I have my doubts on whether or not Ben Johnson
04:21would go to a division rival.
04:23But really, I thought that was
04:25an A plus spectacular performance
04:27for the Lions on Sunday,
04:29specifically on that trick play.
04:31That was awesome.