NFL Great Darryl Johnston Says Detroit Lions ‘Are a Team to Watch’
How good are the Detroit Lions? NFL great Darryl “Moose” Johnston joined us and discussed the Lions in the future.
Fullback Darryl Johnston #48 of the Dallas Cowboys runs upfield against the Philadelphia Eagles at Texas Stadium in the 1995 NFC Divisional Playoff Game on January 7, 1996 in Irving, Texas. (Photo by Joseph Patronite/Getty Images)
We football fans are so close to what’s happening with the Lions. Can you tell us from someone on a national level if we are right to be drinking the Honolulu Blue Kool-Aid?
“Is there something going on here? Absolutely. I’m a big fan of Dan Campbell and many of the people you have in your organization. I think they’re building it the right way, to be sustainable.”
Dan was a tight end, and I’m a fullback. We see the game very similarly: Build it from the inside out. Be good on the offensive and defensive line. That’s where the games are won and lost. At the NFL, we talk about the skill players on the outside. We’re always interested in the quarterback, but none works unless you’ve got an offensive line that can control the game. So I think it’s being built the right way.
I saw a lot of similarities this season with our 1991 Cowboys team. And then we circled back the next year and won our first championship. We were six and five at the turn of that year. In ’91, we went and played the 11 -0 Washington Redskins, and that was kind of the game that propelled that team on into ’92 and to what we did, you know, moving forward in the three Super Bowls in four years. I saw a lot of similarities between our ’91 team and the Lions team this year, but then you went farther than we did in the playoffs.
So… So, I think that that’s the opportunity that this team is looking at. And I know you can look at the glass half empty, right? You can, hey, we had a great season last year.
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You look at Dan Marino; he went to the Super Bowl early in his career and never returned. So you never know when those unique seasons are gonna come together. But that’s why I think what Dan is building in Detroit is unique because it doesn’t seem like it will be a flat….You know, it’s sustainable. We’re going to continue to build. We’re going to add. We’re going to grow. So I think there’s no reason to drink that Honolulu blue Kool-Aid.
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