Green Bay defensive coordinator Mike Pettine won’t return to the team next season and special teams coordinator Shawn Mennenga has been fired after the Packers’ second straight NFC championship game loss last Sunday. “You can’t do stuff like that against a good football team and expect to win.” LaFleur had chosen to keep Pettine after the Packers gave up 285 …
COLUMBUS, Ohio — Jeff Hafley emerged from his coach’s office and walked through a spacious hallway at the Woody Hayes Athletic Center last week, his past and present in perfect lockstep. “In my opinion, it’s the best college job in America,” Hafley said of Ohio State. “When players first meet Jeff it’s like ‘who is this guy?’” said Green Bay …
GREEN BAY, Wis. – When new Packers defensive coordinator Mike Pettine arrived in Green Bay this offseason, along with prized-disciple Muhammad Wilkerson, defensive lineman Dean Lowry took a back seat. This season, Lowry played 33 of 143 defensive snaps during Green Bay’s first two games against Chicago and Minnesota, before getting 24 defensive snaps at Washington in Week 3, when …
GREEN BAY, Wis. — Opening the regular season with consecutive division games assured the Green Bay Packers their 2018 campaign would begin with ample emotion, and fans at Lambeau Field could hardly have been disappointed with what they saw. On Sunday, the Packers and Minnesota Vikings battled to a 29-29 tie that featured nearly everything you can imagine: a blocked …
GREEN BAY, Wis. — On Wednesday afternoon, during the first 24 seconds of his news conference, Green Bay Packers defensive coordinator Mike Pettine encapsulated the emotionally stunted lifestyle of the NFL, where the risk of bodily harm forms the subtext of every contract and where the frequency of such injuries works like numbing ointment to dull a bystander’s pain. It’s …