In January, a few days after the Packers closed out their worst season in a decade, defensive coordinator Mike Pettine met with general manager Brian Gutekunst to discuss the team’s roster. Pettine had just finished his first season in Green Bay—one in which the Packers had gone 6-9-1 and failed to make the postseason for just the third time in 12 seasons—and though McCarthy had been fired in early December, the franchise’s decision about Pettine’s future remained up in the air. As Pettine sat in the draft room and listened to Gutekunst lay out what he saw as the team’s needs, he was taken aback. “It’s rare that a GM thinks there are more holes to fill on a defense than a defensive coordinator does,” Pettine says. “Usually, the ones I’ve been around, it’s ‘This is a playoff roster,’ and you don’t feel that way. He did not need much from me. He was very well aware of our issues.”


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