GREEN BAY, Wis. — There’s one other new-old coach on the Inexperienced Bay Packers employees.
Nathaniel Hackett, who spent three seasons (2019-21) because the staff’s offensive coordinator earlier than he turned the Denver Broncos coach for one yr and the New York Jets offensive coordinator tor the earlier two seasons, has been rehired by the Packers as a guide/analyst.
Coach Matt LaFleur mentioned Hackett will work with the protection however will deliver an offensive perspective to the opposite facet of the ball.
It is just like what former New York Jets head coach Robert Saleh did for the Packers late final season when he labored with the offense however introduced a defensive coach’s perspective. Saleh labored for the Packers part-time after he was fired by the Jets.
“We have got form of a historical past of this with guys which might be form on the market and definitely, he is a man that I actually respect, and we have had quite a lot of nice instances collectively,” LaFleur mentioned Thursday. “And he is form of coming in and doing an analyst position for our protection.”
LaFleur mentioned Hackett has been spending time with the linebackers early on.
“I simply assume it is a recent perspective,” LaFleur mentioned. “You form of, particularly whenever you take a defensive man and put them on offense and vice versa, and offensive man and protection, it offers you a bit of completely different lens to see it by way of and speak by way of. And so, he is sitting in with all our, with our defensive employees, and he is been within the linebacker room and form of simply going by way of the movie and, , offers them a superb offensive perspective.”
It has been a rocky couple of seasons for Hackett.
Final season after Saleh was fired, Hackett was demoted by interim coach Jeff Ulbrich when New York dipped to twenty seventh in whole offense (286.6 yards per sport) and twenty fifth in scoring (18.6 factors). Todd Downing took over because the playcaller at the moment. The Broncos fired Hackett after 15 video games and a 4-11 document in 2022.