All Entries Tagged With: "secondary"

One potential change in the Packers secondary could be to move Casey Hayward to safety ala Charles Woodson in 2012.

The Packers secondary is getting healthy upon the return of Charles Woodson and Sam Shields. That and more in today's Daily Links...

The future is bright for defensive backs like Casey Hayward, Davon House and Jerron McMillian, but their up-and-down performance last week should serve as a wake-up call.

Safety Morgan Burnett is worthy of praise after his superlative performance coming against the Jacksonville Jaguars this past weekend.

Sam Shields has gotten the message. He's willing to tackle. It's time to make him the starter and only allow Bush to play in the slot.

Starting positions at safety and cornerback are still up the air. That and more in today's Daily Links...

Charles Woodson lined up at safety and Jarrett Bush at cornerback when the Packers lined up in their 3-4 defense during Thursday's practice session.

Bart Winkler of K107 in Fond du Lac and Brian Carriveau preview the Thanksgiving Day game between the Packers and the Lions.

The Packers' already-unorthodox safety play will take some interesting twists and turns with the season-ending injury to Nick Collins.

Dom Capers must adjust his coverage schemes to fit the personnel on hand, rather than forcing them to play zone coverage - poorly.

With the NFL Draft only three days away, Packer fans everywhere have visions of new linebackers and defensive backs being added to the roster and making a not-inconsiderable difference right away, most hopefully in the area of pass defense, what with the much-publicized problems Dom Capers' unit had against "veteran quarterbacks" that spread the team out and threw all over the yard last year. Some new players will help, it's true. But more importantly, Capers having a full offseaon to evaluate the talent on hand and match their talents to what he asks them to do will  have just as much, if not more of an impact. As indicated above, Packer fans can recite by rote the phrase that appears in almost every season recap of the 2009 Green Bay Packers - "they had trouble against teams with savvy veteran quarterbacks that spread the field". This is true of course, but going back and rewatching the season (as I am prone to do) something jumped out at me. First of all, the problems to come were foreshadowed in the 49er game especially after Al Harris went down. And as far as I know, Alex Smith has never been confused with a "savvy veteran".  Now, yes, it's hard to blame Capers for what guys like Jarrett Bush and Brandon Underwood do or don't do well when thrown into the middle of a game and where he is forced to gameplan on the fly knowing what he does about their capabilities. But watching that game again, I was reminded how Capers, at times, could really struggle to find a playcalling rhythm once Harris went out. And it may have affected his ability to recognize what the 49ers were doing.

Ok. I was inspired once Aaron wrote this and had to post this video of Nick Collins. I love how Bigby calls him a feeder fish. Just goes to show...

Mike McCarthy has talked a lot about 'availability and accountability' and the need for his players to be those very things - available (ie not...

Call me Captain Obvious but it's clear that opposing offensive coaches are telling their players "Look, Harris and Woodson are going to bump you,...

For all it's steadfastness and sticktoitiveness, the Packers defense presently has two glaring holes residing at the strong side linebacker and...

Am I being uncharitable to young Mr. Bush?

It's one sentence buried in an article in today's Journal-Sentinel, about Atari Bigby taking over the starting strong safety job from

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