Ben Johnson is ‘shocked’ Lions coaching staff has stayed intact, thinks they’re ‘next level’

I think there's more benefits than there are challenges uh like I said the staff I'm I'm shocked that the staff is is put together almost exactly the same as it was a year ago like these guys we're at we're at the next level of coaching Scotty Montgomery and Steve he they're not having to learn hey what do you no no no they're taking it and running with it so I think um from a coaching perspective we're better than we've ever been and then for the players um it's a balance between training the young guys and having them understand the fundamentals the big picture what we're trying to do and yet still challenge the veteran players Jared go needs to be challenged St Brown needs to be challenged because if they just come into the building every single day and they hear it the same thing that they heard two years ago then that gets stale very quickly so we've tried to challenge them while still keeping a good balance of what our core what our identity is to where these young guys can come along and and I think that's where you see a lot of mistakes popping up because uh some of the young guys are still swimming a little bit and as the installs start to thin out I think they're play speed is going to pick up and they'll they'll develop a little bit more confidence