Joe Barry Is Out As Packers Defensive Coordinator After Three Seasons – News18

Joe Barry is out because the Green Bay Packers defensive coordinator after a turbulent third season on the job that ended with a loss within the NFC divisional spherical of the playoffs.

“We want to thank Joe for his commitment and contributions to our success the past three seasons,” Packers coach Matt LaFleur mentioned Wednesday in an announcement saying the choice. “These decisions are extremely difficult and Joe is one of the best men I’ve had the opportunity to work with in this league.”

Green Bay ranked tenth in factors allowed per recreation (20.6), seventeenth in yards allowed per recreation (335.1) and twenty third in yards allowed per play (5.4) in the course of the common season with a protection that includes eight former first-spherical draft picks.

That included a brutal three-recreation stretch late within the season because the Packers allowed 29.3 factors per recreation whereas going 1-2 in opposition to the New York Giants, Tampa Bay Buccaneers and Carolina Panthers.

LaFleur was requested straight about the potential for altering coordinators in the course of the season in his information convention following a 34-20 loss to Tampa Bay during which Baker Mayfield posted an ideal passer score of 158.3. Mayfield and New York’s Tommy DeVito each earned NFC participant of the week awards for his or her performances in opposition to the Packers.

One day later, LaFleur mentioned he was conserving Barry however would take an expanded position within the protection. In their subsequent recreation, the Packers blew a two-landing, fourth-quarter lead in a 33-30 victory at Carolina, which didn’t rating one other level in its ultimate two video games of the season.

The protection carried out a lot better the remainder of the season.

The Packers allowed only one landing over its ultimate two common-season video games, and that got here when the Minnesota Vikings recovered a muffed punt on the Green Bay 7-yard line. The Packers then held the Dallas Cowboys scoreless till the ultimate play of the primary half in a 48-32 wild-card victory.

But the Packers did permit 25 second-half factors to the Cowboys and couldn’t defend a fourth-quarter lead in a 24-21 divisional-spherical loss at San Francisco, because the 49ers drove 69 yards and scored the profitable landing with 1:07 remaining.

Injuries hampered the protection for a lot of the season.

Two-time Pro Bowl cornerback Jaire Alexander performed in simply seven common-season video games. Linebacker De’Vondre Campbell missed six video games, security Darnell Savage was out for seven and cornerback Eric Stokes appeared in simply three. Outside linebacker Rashan Gary didn’t miss any video games however was getting back from a torn anterior cruciate ligament that ended his 2022 season early.

The Packers ranked seventeenth in yards allowed per recreation and tied for seventeenth in scoring protection in 2022. They had been ninth in complete protection and tied for thirteenth in scoring protection in 2021, Barry’s first season as Green Bay’s defensive coordinator.

Green Bay ranked eleventh in run protection in 2021 however slipped to twenty sixth in 2022 and twenty eighth this season, although the Packers’ struggles at stopping the run preceded Barry’s arrival.

This marked Barry’s third stint as an NFL defensive coordinator. He beforehand crammed that position with Detroit in 2007-08 and Washington in 2015-16. Barry and LaFleur had labored collectively as Los Angeles Rams assistants in 2017.

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