Jeff Hafley’s poaching of the Green Bay Packers’ coaching staff has officially begun. On Monday, Aaron Wilson of KPRC in Houston reported that the new Miami Dolphins head coach is bringing the Packers’ defensive backs coach, Ryan Downard, with him to Miami.

Wilson did not report details on what Downard’s responsibilities will be with the Dolphins. Hafley has not yet named a defensive coordinator, and there is at least a possibility that Downard will end up in that role with Hafley still potentially calling the defensive plays for the Dolphins.

Downard spent three years as the defensive backs coach for...

After taking on some potential cap casualties that could result in actual roster movement, we’re now firmly in what I’d gently refer to as the “bad news” portion of this project.

Elgton Jenkins? Probably gone, and for understandable reasons. Same goes for Rashan Gary. Even Josh Jacobs might make some sense. But as much anger as Keisean Nixon might generate among Packers fans, it doesn’t make much sense to move on, which is bad news if you were out for roster blood.

And the same is true for Nate Hobbs who, if not for Nixon, would probably be bearing the...

This was a big weekend around the NFL, and it brought big news for the Green Bay Packers as well. The league’s biggest stories were its conference championship games, which took place on Sunday and decided the matchup for Super Bowl LX in Santa Clara two weeks from now.

That game will be a rematch of Super Bowl XLIX, when the New England Patriots defeated the Seattle Seahawks thanks to a last-minute interception by Malcolm Butler. That year should bring back plenty of unhappy memories for Packers fans, of course, as Green Bay controlled the 2014 NFC Championship Game only...

If you haven’t heard, the Green Bay Packers have hired former Arizona Cardinals head coach Jonathan Gannon to be Jeff Hafley’s replacement as the team’s next defensive coordinator. Here, I want to take the time to look at Gannon’s entire coaching journey and find some long-term connections that he’s had with other coaches before we get into deeper topics about Gannon’s defense later on this week.

Coaching, inherently, is a very social field. Relationships mean a lot. There are also very few NFL coaches roaming this planet, so there’s cross-pollination everywhere. Those crossovers can generally tell you a lot about...

This is our second scouting report of draft season, after focusing on Alabama cornerback Domani Jackson in our first piece. Arizona’s Tacario Davis is another potential Day 2 cornerback selection, which will be the range in which the Green Bay Packers will draft a new starter at the position this April, if they get a new starter, since they’re out first-round picks in the next two drafts because of the Micah Parsons trade.

Let’s hop right into it.

Background

Davis was not a highly-recruited player coming out of Long Beach, California, as he was listed as a three-star recruit...

We’ll have more stuff on the hiring of new Green Bay Packers defensive coordinator Jonathan Gannon throughout the week, as there are a lot of angles to examine for what should be the biggest move that the Packers make in the 2026 offseason, but I want to get this one up quickly, because it’s a one-off I believe is interesting. After the Dallas Cowboys hired their own new defensive coordinator, Christian Parker, Nick Harris of the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, who currently works on the Cowboys’ beat and used to work for DallasCowboys.com, [spoke to why Dallas didn’t end up hiring...

The Tennessee Titans will interview Green Bay Packers offensive coordinator Adam Stenavich on Monday for their offensive coordinator job, according to NFL Network’s Tom Pelissero. The Packers could technically block the interview, since it’s a lateral move, but that isn’t really in Matt LaFleur’s DNA.

LaFleur was allowed by Sean McVay to leave the Los Angeles Rams’ non-play-calling offensive coordinator position to call plays for the Tennessee Titans. He pays that forward. Last year, LaFleur also let Stenavich interview for the Seattle Seahawks’ job, a play-calling opportunity, which eventually went to Klint Kubiak.

If Stenavich did leave, you’d have to...

It’s time to decide who will go to the Bay Area for Super Bowl LX. Today is the day of the NFL’s Conference Championship Games, as the final four teams still standing in the playoffs compete to be one of the two that will advance to the Super Bowl, to be held two weeks from today at Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara.

Interestingly, that stadium — the home of the San Francisco 49ers — will host one of its home team’s divisional rivals in two weeks. The NFC title game, which will be the late game on today’s schedule, is...

Well, it looks like Matt LaFleur won’t be waiting for Jim Leonhard after all. On Sunday morning, NFL Network’s Tom Pelissero reported that the Green Bay Packers will be hiring Jonathan Gannon, the former head coach of the Arizona Cardinals, as their next defensive coordinator. Many reports stated that Leonhard and Raheem Morris were at the top of Green Bay’s lists to fill the void that Jeff Hafley left when he joined the Miami Dolphins as their next head coach, but that obviously didn’t come to fruition.

As far as we know, the interviewed candidates for the Packers’ job were...

It’s probably going to be a slow weekend for Green Bay Packers news, but the NFL coaching cycle has been churning all month. Since we have a little time here, I wanted to ask you all what you think of the recent coaching hires that have been made. Here are some of my thoughts.

New York Giants HC John Harbaugh

It’s hard to talk about the Giants’ job without bringing up the fact that the primary owner of the team, John Mara, has been diagnosed with cancer. If the team is in win-now mode, it’s hard to imagine that...

Earlier this week, we wrote about top-150 cornerbacks who are Green Bay Packers-type defensive backs in the 2026 NFL Draft class and who might actually be available for the team when they’re on the clock with the 53rd overall pick. Among those nine cornerbacks, the first to officially measure in at an all-star game this cycle is Alabama’s Domani Jackson.

So, that’s why we picked Jackson to be our first scouting report of the 2026 class here at Acme Packing Company. Based on current projections, the Packers would need to take him with their third- or fourth-round pick in the...

The Miami Dolphins are becoming Green Bay South quickly. This offseason, they hired Jon-Eric Sullivan, the Packers’ former vice president of player personnel, and Jeff Hafley, Green Bay’s former defensive coordinator, to be the team’s new general manager and head coach, respectively. Beyond that, the Dolphins have also signed a former Packers player and added a pro scout from Green Bay, too.

So it was within the realm of possibility that maybe Hafley’s new offensive coordinator, who would be a play-caller since Hafley comes from the defensive side of the ball, would come from the Packers, too. A few names...