It doesn’t come as much of a surprise, but the Packers are expected to part ways with longtime defensive coordinator Dom Capers, ESPN’s Adam Schefter reports. Capers, 67, has been with the team since 2009, but it appears as if his ninth season will be his last.
Capers’ unit will finish outside the top-15 in league rankings for the sixth time in the past seven years, and the last time it enjoyed a top-10 ranking was in 2010, when the Packers won the Super Bowl. Tom Silverstein of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reports that Capers could step down or retire to avoid the ignominy of a firing.
Silverstein opines that Green Bay has the makings of a solid defense, but that moving on from Capers is essential. He also believes that the team needs to bring in a new coordinator from outside the organization to provide the defense with a completely fresh start. He looks at some of the top names that could be available, including current Bears DC Vic Fangio and current Lions DC Teryl Austin, though it does not appear that there are currently any substantive rumors linking the Packers to the names on Silverstein’s list.
Capers, meanwhile, is probably prepared to call it a career. He broke into the league with the Saints in 1986 and has twice served as a head coach (for the expansion Panthers in 1995 and the expansion Texans in 2002). He has one Super Bowl ring, which, as noted above came as Green Bay’s DC in 2010.
Now it Ted can start drafting best available guys when they fall to GB late in the 1st round instead of draft project guys!
This would be great as well. Lately they have just been throwing defensive draft pick after defensive draft pick against the wall hoping something sticks.
In the last 4 drafts we’ve had 8 first and second round picks and 5 of those have been secondary.
Yeah like Rueben Foster, Dalton Cook last year, or Myles Jack and Derrick Henry the year before. Just too many times great players are sitting there that fill glaring needs that get passed up. MLB and RB had been a huge issue for the last few years and have not been addressed.
Yup could have had TJ Watt or Myles Jack…but no Ted is obsessed with underwhelming 1st round reaches
Who wants that old decrepit ass hat there.. Teddy needs to be the next one out the door!!!
6 days late, but still Merry Christmas to me.
6 years late you mean
Holy F balls! FINALLY!!!
Fangio would be a great hire for the Pack but I personally hope the guy gets a shot at HC.
Thompson and McCarthy should be next
Thompson must go for sure. McCarthy is a decision that the new GM gets to make. It is Elliot Wolf’s time
it would be more of the same with Wolf. I would love to see them go outside of the organization. John Dorsey would have been perfect but he went to Cleveland.