ALLEN PARK -- Dan Campbell compared the situation he’s in with offensive coordinator John Morton to how things went down in 2021.

And the Detroit Lions coach isn’t talking about his mid-season move to replace then-offensive coordinator Anthony Lynn for calling the offense. Campbell sees this as an opportunity for Morton to see how he calls the offense, learn his tendencies, what he likes, what Jared Goff likes and to grow.

Campbell’s comparison to that decision four years ago concerned Ben Johnson’s role in the equation. Johnson was the team’s passing game coordinator and got to work closely with Campbell and Goff, watching those two work together and the coach run the offense, then he and Detroit’s offense hit the ground running in 2022.

“But he watched, he learned, he saw how I ran it

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