Christian Parker spent two years as a defensive quality control coach for the Packers. Could he come back as defensive coordinator?

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Only 32 years old. interesting

Originally Posted by: buckeyepackfan 

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Based on two separate sources, Christian Parker is currently in Green Bay, and I’m being led to believe has been offered the Green Bay DC job. No word on if it has been accepted.

Originally Posted by: Zero2Cool 

Yeesh, an underwhelming choice.

Originally Posted by: Martha Careful 

Yeesh, an underwhelming choice.

Originally Posted by: Martha Careful 

I don't know squat about the guy other than Broncos had a really good defense second half of the season.

Originally Posted by: Zero2Cool 

Broncos Defense
29th overall in yards
30th rush yards
22nd pass yards
27th (24.3) 27th in points against

Originally Posted by: Zero2Cool 

NFL circles are saying the opposite. They're saying he's a rising star (actually it's in this topic title isn't it lol), but that's the mantra circling this guy. I don't know squat about the guy other than Broncos had a really good defense second half of the season.

Week 3 : 70 points to Dolphins
Week 4 : 28 points to Bears

Then the change started happening over next few weeks.

@Chiefs 19 points
Packers 17 points
Chiefs 9 points
@Bills 22 points
Vikings 20 points
Browns 12 points
@Chargers 7 points
@Lions 42!!! points
Patriots 26 points
Chargers 9 points
@Raiders 27 points

Granted, he was only the DB Coach so it's not like we can credit him for those low point outings. But in the same breath, we can't fault him for the 70 points to Dolphins or 42 points to Lions.

Broncos Defense
29th overall in yards
30th rush yards
22nd pass yards
27th (24.3) 27th in points against

Originally Posted by: Zero2Cool 

but he's also a big part of their defensive structure.

Especially this season, Payton wanted to bring in Vance Joseph to run a blend of his defense and the Fangio defense which he's never been in, So Parker was practically teaching the defense early on while also teaching Vance on the finer details of it. You can watch the defense start to take form as the season went on, early it just looked like a bunch of jumbled up concepts with no philosophy and they found their identity midway through the season.

One thing that was notable for me was how the DBs for the past few years have played a sort of passive and safe style of coverage/tackling but when things this season were really bad him and VJ flipped a switch and started to emphasize playing the ball in the air and when they tackle as well, so I think that says a lot about how adaptable he is.