Green Bay PackersDespite having eight first-round picks on defense, Barry’s tenureBarry’s tenure Barry’s tenure Barry’s tenure saw no improvement in that area. In fact, one could argue that things grew worse. While they performed admirably in the last two weeks of the regular season, no defense allowed as many 200-yard running games as the Packers. Furthermore, they let New York Giants quarterback Tommy DeVito have the game of his life in a stunning and humiliating defeat.
The fact of the matter is that Barry’s defense was wildly inconsistent. There were other games where the defense performed exceptionally well, such as when they defeated Patrick Mahomes and the Kansas City Chiefs this season. However, they frequently made ordinary quarterbacks look like superstars. A week after being humbled by the Giants, the defense let Tampa Bay Buccaneers quarterback Baker Mayfield become the first visiting quarterback to have a perfect passing rating at Lambeau Field.
Unsurprisingly, Packers supporters reacted positively to Barry’s firing. Unfortunately, Barry has always faced an uphill struggle with supporters. Being the guy who was offered the job that former Wisconsin Badgers coach Jim Leonhard turned down couldn’t have been easy. However, his body of work did not serve him well.
Now that Barry is gone, Packers fans are hoping that the 2024 defense will be significantlyGreen Bay Packers
better than it was in the previous three years. They’ve also expressed their discontent with another important member of the team’s coaching staff.
The Packers’ special teams haven’t been particularly good since, well, 1996. Despite having Keisean Nixon as their kick returner for the last two seasons (during which Nixon was voted First Team All-Pro), the unit’s overall performance has been dismal.
This season, their troubles were exacerbated by rookie kicker Anders Carlson’s inconsistency, particularly on extra point attempts. Rich Bisaccia handpicked the 2023 sixth-round draft pick as the successor to long-time Packers kicker Mason Crosby.
When the Packers hired Bisaccia, who had recently been passed over for the head coaching position with the Las Vegas Raiders, he was intended to help things better. However, it has not progressed to the amount that many supporters would have preferred.
For this reason, Bisaccia is already attracting the ire of supporters.
people who are dissatisfied with Bisaccia are the same people who, for the most part, praised the Packers for employing him in the first place. In any case, Bisaccia is also the assistant head coach, and Green Bay’s coach-firing deadline for the season has passed.
Hopefully, he can strengthen his unit by 2024, or fans may have even more reason to grumble.
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Robin M Adams is a notable sports writer, journalist, and novelist. Robin also co-owns Wisconsin Sports Heroics, a sports news website focused on Wisconsin sports. He covers all Wisconsin sports, but focuses on the Green Bay Packers, Milwaukee Bucks, and Milwaukee Brewers.
