Who Do You Want As Packers New DC?

[QBME]

Other.
As another poster opined in an earlier thread, MLF is putting his thumb print on this team.
Gonna be out of left field.

Huh

[Joemailman]

It sure seemed like it. I'm very mixed on the hire. His job seemed on the line at Boston College before the season. But I also know some prick fans form Ohio State and they worship this guy.

So I don't know what to think. I too hated the Joe Barry hire from DAY ONE. I don't really know enough about this guy to love it or hate it so I need a year or two to develop my warped views.


On one shoulder, the little man is screaming....exotic blitz packages.....Man to Man coverage is great for Jaire....pressure pressure pressure. Great Hire

On the other, another little man screams. JIMMY JIMMY JIMMY, and it's pretty irresponsible not to at least interview some of the experienced DC's who have already had success in the NFL. I'd STILL TAKE Mike Zimmer, for instance, in a second as my DC anyday.

And I wanna know (and will within the next year.....WTF happened with JIMMY. Guessing he rubbed the Flower the wrong way ; but hell, maybe they chatted and text'd each other and they mutually agreed to not interview. WHO KNOWS.

I will say this; while my bias is to be OK with the hire, I don't have a ton of faith in Flower as a person who is hiring the DC.

Did Leonhard get an interview with anybody? Either he's not seeking an NFL job, or there is no longer interest in him among NFL teams.

[Fritz]

Zach Orr, who the Packers interviewed, named new Ravens DC.

There’s a weird story out in ACME that reports are that the Packers offered the job to Zach Orr but that he chose to stay as Baltimore’s new DC after Macdonald went to Seattle. All sounds very bang-bang, and the proposed timeline for this is odd. If they were THAT interested, wouldn’t they have requested an interview sooner, like they did with Dennard Walker?

[Joemailman]

There’s a weird story out in ACME that reports are that the Packers offered the job to Zach Orr but that he chose to stay as Baltimore’s new DC after Macdonald went to Seattle. All sounds very bang-bang, and the proposed timeline for this is odd. If they were THAT interested, wouldn’t they have requested an interview sooner, like they did with Dennard Walker?

A league source is saying Orr was offered the job. Team source is saying that is not true.

[Fritz]

A league source is saying Orr was offered the job. Team source is saying that is not true.

While we'd expect a team source to say that, the timeline offered in the story didn't seem realisitic, at least from a logical point of view. If you want a guy that bad, why would you not throw your hat in the ring earlier, like you did with other candidates? Makes no sense. On top of that, the story made it sound like they both asked to interview him and offered him the job on January 30th. It just doesn't add up.

[Joemailman]

Zach Kruse
@zachkruse2

Looks like an agent source vs. team source battle!

Agent wants Orr to look good and in demand
Team wants Hafley to look like first and only choice

Not sure any of it really matters

[RashanGary]

While we'd expect a team source to say that, the timeline offered in the story didn't seem realisitic, at least from a logical point of view. If you want a guy that bad, why would you not throw your hat in the ring earlier, like you did with other candidates? Makes no sense. On top of that, the story made it sound like they both asked to interview him and offered him the job on January 30th. It just doesn't add up.

They really don’t know much about a lot of these guys. It’s a small community so there is some knowledge, but really, when I went through the better defensive teams to see which young guys are being promoted fast, when the interview times came, that’s who was being interviewed.

Maybe to start the process it was just casting a wide net and Orr was one of the guys where they’re checking under each stone. But when they lifted this stone during the interview process, they were like, yeah, this is what we were looking for.

I kind of believe the agent source here. But it’s hard to know for sure.