Comments on: Entire defensive staff fired except Winston Moss?

By: awhayes

awhayes — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 13:17:46 +0000

Hey Dreampipe – funny you commented re LeRoy Butler. In my initial draft of the more recent post on Keith Butler, I was going to suggest LeRoy Butler be made part of the staff somehow too. I listen to Butler on the radio a fair amount and read him and he just makes sense. He knows what he’s talking about (on both sides of the ball) and he loves the team. In one of the last interviews I think someone asked him re the possibility of coaching and he indicated he really likes doing what he does now (not sure what that is exactly, but he likes it).

By: dreampipe

dreampipe — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 05:19:37 +0000

im sorry, i meant “NASTY, insatiable animal”
there, that’s better

By: dreampipe

dreampipe — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 05:17:13 +0000

winston moss has been groomed to succeed Bates/Sanders. The Packers love to promote from within (I would like us to hire LeRoy Butler or Gilbert Brown in any supportive capacity). Here’s hoping Moss gets the Rams job, and we somehow score an “angry, insatiable animal” of a D-Coord

By: Dave

Dave — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 18:45:31 +0000

I too was under the impression that Washington was a good coach, but that doesn’t mean that there’s no one else that can do the job as well or better. The sweeping changes suggest to me that either Moss is getting the job and wanted to hire his own staff, or someone else will come in and be able to bring in their own people. I can’t say I disagree with this approach.

What I wonder is if Moss isn’t the new coordinator, where does he fit in? Is a new guy going to want to have an extra defensive assistant head coach hanging around? Is McCarthy just keeping him on staff so it doesn’t hurt his chances in St. Louis?

My guess is if he doesn’t get the Rams job he’ll be our DC.

By: Packerholic

Packerholic — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 18:10:24 +0000

I agree with you with regards to Lionel Washington. I think the Packers should have kept him since I have always thought he was a good coach. Our cornerbacks have been a strength of the team for years now and I think Washington has been at least partially responsible for their consistently high play (as long as their is some resemblance of a pass rush). Plus he did a pretty job coaching Tramon Williams the last two seasons since Tramon Williams has established himself as the future replacement for Al Harris or Charles Woodson. Hopefully the Packers just fired him in order to let the new defensive coordinator chose his own staff. Hopefully the new defensive coordinator decides to rehire Lionel Washington since I really don’t want him to go.