"They didn't look like Ben Johnson's Lions": Colin Cowherd makes feelings known on Jared Goff and Co.'s upset win vs. Ravens on MNF

Jared Goff and the Detroit Lions put on a primetime show on Monday night to beat Lamar Jackson and the Baltimore Ravens 38-30.

Dan Campbell's Lions have picked up the pace after their Week 1 loss to the Green Bay Packers. They dismantled the Chicago Bears in Week 2 and took the vaunted Ravens to task on Monday Night Football in Week 3.

Bears head coach Ben Johnson ran Detroit's offense last season. However, Chicago hired him this past offseason, and the Lions replaced him with John Morton.

NFL analyst Colin Cowherd made some unique observations regarding the Lions' play, highlighting the impact of Morton's appointment, during Monday's episode of "The Colin Cowherd Podcast."

"Johnny Morton, tonight, I don't know if he'll call [this] a better game," he said (Timestamp: 8:59). "Sometimes, offensive coordinators say they want to run the ball. But they get too clever. They get too cute. Even Sean McVay sometimes can get a little bit cute. Johnny Morton, tonight, he just kept going back to the run.

"It didn't look like the Ben Johnson Lions. There was no cute... Every time I remember Detroit running it, they've run it well. I think I've seen them run it a couple different times. They didn't outthink the room."

As Cowherd highlighted, the Lions' run game was on point against the Ravens. The committee backfield of Jahmyr Gibbs and David Montgomery was a hard one to stop for Baltimore. Gibbs, as the leading back, rushed for 67 yards and two touchdowns. Montgomery, on the other hand, broke out with 151 yards and two touchdowns.

Comparing Ben Johnson's Lions with John Morton's

Similar to this campaign, the Lions got off to a flying start offensively last year. Under Johnson, after three weeks, Detroit had totaled 1,199 yards on offense. Interestingly, the Lions only trail by 16 yards this season under Morton, with 1,183.

However, Morton has been running the higher-scoring offense. While Johnson's Lions had totaled 62 points by Week 3, Morton's has amassed 103 points this season.

Johnson's impact on the Lions was indeed remarkable, but Detroit's top brass has done a good job of replacing his services to continue the momentum in Motown.