Defensive coordinator Joe Barry shouldn't shoulder all the blame for the Packers’ loss Thursday night, but whatever it is he is doing or head coach Matt LaFleur is making him do isn’t working.
The Green Bay Packers lost 27-17 to the Tennessee Titans on Nov. 17, 2022, at Lambeau Field.GREEN BAY – There’s something rotten with the Green Bay Packers defense and even though coach Matt LaFleur is up to his ears figuring out how to score more than a touchdown or two per game, he should be making plans for big changes.the Packers’ 27-17 loss to a short-handed Tennessee Titans
He’s not the only one worthy of blame, though. Passing game coordinator Jerry Gray either doesn’t believe in what Barry is running or has suddenly lost his ability to coach defensive backs because the chemistry that is supposed to bind the secondary with everyone else on defense is spoiled.
After Wisconsin’s Jim Leonhard decided he wanted to stay, LaFleur picked Barry to replace Pettine. He knew him from their days with the Los Angeles Rams, and wanted to tap into someone who knew the Vic Fangio defense. He also interviewed Rams secondary coach Ejiro Evero, but went with Barry because he crushed his interview and had been a coordinator before.
The problem with the Packers’ defense is that brush fires seem to pop up everywhere and Barry is slow to make changes. He has miscalculated how opponents were going to attack his defense starting with the season opener against the Minnesota Vikings when he played mostly zone against all-world receiver Justin Jefferson.
Yes, he was dealt an unfair blow with the loss of top pass rusher Rashan Gary to a season-ending injury, but his array of blitzes to try to generate some pressure are often vanilla and only in the past two weeks has he called some all-out blitzes.Barry felt so unsure of his run defense against Tennessee running back Derrick Henry that he changed the way his linemen played their gaps, went with six-man fronts at times and sent his inside linebackers on run blitzes.
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