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Ben Johnson crouched down next to Lions quarterback Jared Goff in the third quarter against the Bills in December. Their team trailed by 21 in a game they’d eventually lose 48-42 in one of the season’s most thrilling shootouts.
“I’m not going to run the ball anymore,” Johnson told Goff, as recorded on the Netflix “Quarterback” series. “It’s a waste of time.”
Only five teams ran the ball more frequently than the Lions did under Johnson last year. The year before, only seven teams ran more often than Johnson did.