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Rob DemovskyJul 24, 2025, 12:16 PM ET
- Rob Demovsky is an NFL newsman astatine ESPN and covers the Green Bay Packers. He has covered the Packers since 1997 and joined ESPN successful 2013. Demovsky is simply a two-time Wisconsin Sportswriter of the Year arsenic selected by the NSSA.
GREEN BAY, Wis. -- There's different new-old manager connected the Green Bay Packers staff.
Nathaniel Hackett, who spent 3 seasons (2019-21) arsenic the team's violative coordinator earlier helium became the Denver Broncos manager for 1 twelvemonth and the New York Jets violative coordinator tor the erstwhile 2 seasons, has been rehired by the Packers arsenic a consultant/analyst.
Coach Matt LaFleur said Hackett volition enactment with the defence but volition bring an violative position to the different broadside of the ball.
It's akin to what erstwhile New York Jets caput manager Robert Saleh did for the Packers precocious past play erstwhile helium worked with the discourtesy but brought a antiaircraft coach's perspective. Saleh worked for the Packers portion clip aft helium was fired by the Jets.
"We've got benignant of a past of this with guys that are benignant retired determination and certainly, he's a feline that I truly respect, and we've had a batch of large times together," LaFleur said Thursday. "And he's benignant of coming successful and doing an expert relation for our defense."
LaFleur said Hackett has been spending clip with the linebackers aboriginal on.
"I conscionable deliberation it's a caller perspective," LaFleur said. "You benignant of, particularly erstwhile you instrumentality a antiaircraft feline and enactment them connected discourtesy and vice versa, and violative feline and defense, it gives you a small antithetic lens to spot it done and speech through. And so, he's sitting successful with each our, with our antiaircraft staff, and he's been successful the linebacker country and benignant of conscionable going done the movie and, you know, gives them a bully violative perspective."
It has been a rocky mates of seasons for Hackett.
Last play aft Saleh was fired, Hackett was demoted by interim manager Jeff Ulbrich erstwhile New York dipped to 27th successful full discourtesy (286.6 yards per game) and 25th successful scoring (18.6 points). Todd Downing took implicit arsenic the playcaller astatine that time. The Broncos fired Hackett aft 15 games and a 4-11 grounds successful 2022.
