Packers hiring LaFleur.

[QBME]

Green Bay Packers @packers
The #Packers have named Kirk Olivadotti inside linebackers coach, Justin Outten tight ends coach & Adam Stenavich offensive line coach ��

Packers announcement: https://t.co/q5qkqxHMUo

OK..

Olivadotti - sounds Irish, so he has the inside scoop. Good hire.

Outten..Tight Ends, I'll leave that one to Tank as I suspect he has inside knowledge/experience.

Stenavich - as previously posted, I like it.

[Joemailman]

https://packerswire.usatoday.com/201...as-olbs-coach/

The coach who oversaw Dee Ford’s career year with the Kansas City Chiefs is coming to Green Bay to join Matt LaFleur’s staff with the Packers.

The team announced Friday the hiring of former Chiefs outside linebackers coach Mike Smith, who will assume the same role on Mike Pettine’s defensive staff.

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The #Packers have named Mike Smith outside linebackers coach 📰https://pckrs.com/rzlaa

Smith spent last three seasons in Kansas City

Smith took over the Chiefs’ outside linebackers in 2018, helping Ford – a Pro Bowler – set new career highs in sacks (13) and forced fumbles (7). The Chiefs tallied 52 sacks and 105 quarterback hits, including 22 sacks and 41 quarterback hits between Ford and Justin Houston, Kansas City’s other starting outside linebacker.

Prior to becoming the Chiefs outside linebackers coach, Smith served two years as the team’s assistant defensive line coach.

[texaspackerbacker]

I think Bielema received or is still receiving a $11 M severance package from Arkansas. He’s rumored to be heading south to Miami to coach DL for Flores, oh fie, the only minority to receive a head coaching gig this offseason. Still, Ole Brett would look great in the Green and Gold.

Btw, I’m just doing my duty. Just reminding everyone that so long as class consciousness exists, people will always be conscious of skin pigmentations.

APB, football is like quality of life in general. When it's bad for your side, nitpicking things like that come to the surface, but just as the rising tide floats all boats, economically speaking, having the team win win win makes people not care about any of that silly shit. Who was that great philosopher that said, "winning isn't everything, it's the ONLY thing".

Anyway, I think Bielema knows, a lot of people in the state of Wisconsin would start him out with two strikes against him.

Joe, that ain't the Mike Smith who used to coach the Falcons, is it?

[Joemailman]

Joe, that ain't the Mike Smith who used to coach the Falcons, is it?

No.

Smith is entering his seventh year as a coach in the NFL. He comes to the Packers after spending the last three seasons with the Kansas City Chiefs, first as the assistant defensive line coach in 2016-17 and then coaching outside linebackers last season. In 2018, Smith coached Dee Ford, who was selected to his first Pro Bowl after tying for the NFL lead with seven forced fumbles and tying for No. 2 among NFL linebackers with a career-high 13 sacks. Prior to Kansas City, Smith coached at his alma mater, Texas Tech, serving as the co-defensive coordinator in 2013 and 2015 and the defensive coordinator for the final nine games of 2014 while also coaching outside linebackers in 2014-15 and the defensive line in 2015. Smith began his NFL coaching career with the New York Jets as a coaching intern (2010-11) and then as an outside linebackers coach (2012). His first coaching position came at the University of Hawaii tutoring linebackers in 2009. The former Red Raider linebacker (2001-04) went on to play the same position for the Baltimore Ravens for four seasons (2005-08) before his career was cut short due to injuries.

[Iron Mike]

All of the current coaches are white, even though a "Family Guy" argument could be made to support the notion that Italians like Pettine aren't caucasiods. LaFluer has yet to officially hire a minority.

I've got a better pop culture reference than that:

[Fosco33]

For fuck’s sake, hire the infamous former Wisconsin special teams coach to coach special teams already! I’m talking ‘bout none other than Brett Bielema.

Ole Brett is good at exploiting special teams loopholes.

Now that is funny! The ole psu offsides kickoff play. That felt cheap when it happened.

I heard Bert was helping Patriots in some limited capacity last off-season.

[Fritz]

There seems to be some consternation in Packerland about LeFleur hiring coaches with little experience, or in not keeping some of the old regime's assistants, like Campen. I think Dougherty had an article questioning the Stenavich hire.

But I would respond by asking, didn't we want change, most of us? Didn't we feel like the team needed a fresh start on offense?

Had LeFleur kept the old offensive assistants around, or hired retreads from other teams, I'd imagine we'd be wondering what the point of firing MM was, then.

Let's see what the kids can do. What the hell.

The days of 10-6 and a possible playoff run thanks to Rodgers may be over. So let's dive into this brave new world.

[pbmax]

Now that is funny! The ole psu offsides kickoff play. That felt cheap when it happened.

I heard Bert was helping Patriots in some limited capacity last off-season.

Bert was in line for a job with the Dolphins and Brian Flores. But the rumor is that he might not be the first choice now after Packers run game coordinator Patrick Graham was hired as D coordinator.

[Joemailman]

Pretty interesting story about LaFleur's football life, from growing up to present, focusing mostly on his playing days. https://www.packers.com/news/from-sm...n-to-titletown

[pbmax]

There seems to be some consternation in Packerland about LeFleur hiring coaches with little experience, or in not keeping some of the old regime's assistants, like Campen. I think Dougherty had an article questioning the Stenavich hire.

But I would respond by asking, didn't we want change, most of us? Didn't we feel like the team needed a fresh start on offense?

Had LeFleur kept the old offensive assistants around, or hired retreads from other teams, I'd imagine we'd be wondering what the point of firing MM was, then.

Let's see what the kids can do. What the hell.

The days of 10-6 and a possible playoff run thanks to Rodgers may be over. So let's dive into this brave new world.

I am not saying it would have been best, but I think what we all would have agreed to want was the Rams hiring in 1997 or 98 of Dick Vermeil and his All Star Band.

[pbmax]

Pretty interesting story about LaFleur's football life, from growing up to present, focusing mostly on his playing days. https://www.packers.com/news/from-sm...n-to-titletown

Memories. We are all old.

The Oilers [LaFleur's school] were district champs during his junior year, picking up a win during a holiday tournament over eventual Class B state champion, Detroit Country Day, a team that featured future NBA champion Shane Battier and David Webber, the younger brother of Chris Webber of Michigan Fab Five fame.

[Bretsky]

Tom Silverstein @TomSilverstein
Another special teams coach the #Packers have talked to is #Giants assistant Tom Quinn. He was ST coordinator from 2007- '17. New coach Pat Shurmur fired him a year ago but brought him back as an assistant when new ST coach Thomas McGaughey was undergoing cancer treatment.


Every interview since Rizzi sounds like a Go Fund Me campaign.

I can't open the dam thing but a funny headline in JS
Packers interview another retread for special teams coach.

[denverYooper]

There seems to be some consternation in Packerland about LeFleur hiring coaches with little experience, or in not keeping some of the old regime's assistants, like Campen. I think Dougherty had an article questioning the Stenavich hire.

But I would respond by asking, didn't we want change, most of us? Didn't we feel like the team needed a fresh start on offense?

Had LeFleur kept the old offensive assistants around, or hired retreads from other teams, I'd imagine we'd be wondering what the point of firing MM was, then.

Let's see what the kids can do. What the hell.

The days of 10-6 and a possible playoff run thanks to Rodgers may be over. So let's dive into this brave new world.

I mostly agree with this and, unless the offensive staff is blatantly incompetent (which I don't think will be the case) I think we'll see an uptick in offensive production. At the very least, we'll see what Rodgers does in a new scheme.

The new coaching staff is mostly around 40. That seems to me to be the age where you're likely to get guys in prime NFL coaching years who can bring in new ideas but also sufficient maturity to handle running an NFL team.

[Pugger]

Did the Packers really hire Getsy or not? I haven't seen or read any official word.

[Joemailman]

Did the Packers really hire Getsy or not? I haven't seen or read any official word.

He is not listed on the Packers website. Right now it's just:

LaFleur HC
Hackett OC
Outten TE
Sirmans RB
Stenavich OL
Pettine DC
Montgomery DL
Olivadotti ILB
Simmons DB
Smith OLB