Now that the green bay packers are two days away from replacing joe barry as defensive coordinator, the team is quickly searching for barry’s replacement.
Matt lafleur has been hard at work recruiting potential replacements, with four names already announced as of friday afternoon. these candidates have a wide range of experience, both in terms of number and intensity of football coaching.
One of the two players is a new nfl head coach, while the other is just 32 years old and has only been a position coach in the league for three years.
As we learn of other confirmed interviews, stay tuned for more details.brandon staley age: 41 (born in los angeles, california, 2021-2023, resigned after week 15) staley’s tenure with the chargers was tumultuous, with high-powered offenses and sluggish defenses as the focus of his work. He was fired late this season after the chargers went.500 under his watch (24-24).
However, staley did coordinate the losbobby babich age: 40 current position: buffalo bills linebackers coach (2022-present) babich is the son of bob babich, the former head coach at north dakota state university and an nfl position coach and defensive coordinator from 2003 to 2021. Babich’s younger brother was a defensive line coach in buffalo, first as assistant db coach (2017), then safety coach (2018-21), before succeeding his dad as lb coach (2019-2021). durde, who is from middlesex, england, played as a linebacker in nfl europe for a few years before joining the carolina panthers and kansas city chiefs.
After working with nfluk for several years as its head of football development, he joined coaching. Durde joined the atlanta falcons as a defensive qc coach in 2018, and then coached outside linebackers in 2020, before moving to the cowboys after dan quinn was fired.