Ben Johnson and Aaron Glenn are balancing preparing for Detroit Lions playoff games and NFL coaching interviews.
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00:00 John, simply how do you think the Lime Star coordinators, offensive coordinator Ben Johnson
00:04 and defensive coordinator Aaron Glenn will handle the respective interviews this week?
00:08 Yeah, Vito, it's interesting.
00:10 Now that teams are starting to move on from their head coaches, a lot of teams want to
00:15 talk to Ben Johnson and Aaron Glenn.
00:17 And Dan Campbell addressed it Monday during his media session regarding the fact that
00:21 this week some of the interviews are going to take place.
00:24 And people are wondering, okay, the team is preparing and needs to do their hard work
00:28 to prepare for the Buccaneers as the Lions are trying to advance in the postseason.
00:33 But Vito, at this point in time, there's a small window for these coaches to get some
00:36 interviews in.
00:37 And Dan Campbell said that, yeah, it's going to be a challenge, but there are windows that
00:41 Ben Johnson and Aaron Glenn are going to have.
00:44 And most notably, it'll be on Friday and Saturday during pockets of free time that those assistants
00:49 are going to have to squeeze in some interviews.
00:51 And at the time you and I are talking right now, Ben Johnson has two scheduled interviews
00:56 taking place, one with the commanders who have shown strong interest.
00:59 They've hired Adam Peters from the 49ers.
01:02 There could be a fit there.
01:03 And the Panthers as well have done their due diligence and are putting in time and effort
01:08 into Ben Johnson and seeing what he was able to do with the Lions.
01:13 Aaron Glenn also has a myriad of interviews and interest, especially after the run that
01:19 the defense has had, not giving up points and really upping the aggressiveness.
01:24 And they're really from last year's rankings to this year, Aaron Glenn has started to gain
01:29 traction and a lot of attention.
01:31 So Vito, it's complicated.
01:33 It is, you know, a situation in which some time and attention will be diverted from the
01:37 assistants to other things.
01:40 But trust in this, Dan Campbell indicated that all hands are on deck and everybody is
01:45 certainly focused and hyper focused on putting together the best game plan for the Buccaneers.
01:51 And so when you have popular coaches and popular assistants, these type of things are going
01:56 to be expected.
01:57 This is good news, Vito.
01:59 The National Football League is looking at what the Lions are doing and actually respecting
02:03 it.
02:04 And potentially Dan Campbell could lose both coordinators, but it's a good problem to have
02:10 in that, hey, you have to put together, you still have to focus on the Detroit Lions and
02:14 getting them advancing.
02:15 But at the same time, these coordinators are going to take advantage of opportunities,
02:20 any and all opportunities they have to move forward.
02:23 The Lions getting respect from the rest of the NFL, John, you gotta love that being the
02:27 case.
02:28 John, thanks for all the time.