The Seattle Seahawks celebrate while the Green Bay Packers face a long offseason. New defensive minds, coaching stability, and a pressure-filled 2026 season await Green Bay.
Well, it's officially here. Super Bowl LX has come and gone. The Seattle Seahawks have lifted their second Lombardi Trophy since the last time the Green Bay Packers had their mitts on one. Yuck.
What that means is that this past 2025 NFL season has mercifully concluded, though, and now we're in the offseason.
What does that mean for the Packers?
Sadly, they've been in offseason mode since January 10, over a month ago, when they lost to the Chicago Bears in the NFC Wild Card round of the playoffs.
They've lost a defensive coordinator in Jeff Hafley, who is now the head coach of the Miami Dolphins. They replaced said defensive coordinator with former Arizona Cardinals head coach Jonathan Gannon.
Gannon has, so far, built an intriguing staff as he looks to regain his standing in the NFL after being fired by the Cardinals.
Intriguing enough, he has three former defensive coordinators on his staff.
That would be new passing game coordinator Bobby Babich (formerly the defensive coordinator of the Buffalo Bills), new linebackers coach Sam Siefkes (formerly the defensive coordinator of the Virginia Tech Hokies), and retained defensive line coach and run game coordinator DeMarcus Covington (a former defensive coordinator with the New England Patriots).
The Packers could be building something very interesting on the defensive side of the ball. At the very least, there's a ton of experience on that coaching staff.
In the meantime, head coach Matt LaFleur will have to prove team president Ed Policy right that, in an offseason in which there were a ton of head coaching changes across the league, standing pat and favoring stability over emotional reaction was the right route.
LaFleur will have a ton of pressure to win it all in 2026. That's really the only expectation that matters anymore for the Packers, and he's accomplished everything else as a head coach in Green Bay.
There's not been a ton of change, but free agency will bring some interesting decisions, and then there's the 2026 NFL Draft. The Packers won't have a first-rounder, but they have Micah Parsons, and that's even better. They will have picks to make in that draft, though, and there are plenty of holes to fill.
Andrew Kulha of PackersRoundtable and Anthony Moeglin of RoundtableSports discuss all this and more on the latest episode of the PackersRoundtable podcast.
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