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What is up Packers fans? Welcome into an all new episode of the Packaay podcast. I'm your host, Andy Herman. You can follow me on Twitter at Andy Herman NFL. You can find the podcast at Packaday podcast. I am super pumped up because I get to talk to a guest that I've been wanting to have on for a very long time. And it worked out today. We're going to talk a lot about Jonathan Gannon, the Cardinals defense, philosophy, schemes, everything that you could possibly imagine. He is Cody Alexander. You can find him at matchquarters.com. Let's Talk Ball podcast and on social media at the underscore coach underscore A. He is awesome at breaking down all things NFL film. Make sure to give him a follow. Cody, I cannot thank you enough for coming on. How are you doing, my friend? Yeah, doing great. Thanks for having me on. Yeah, you bet. I want to start, obviously, the main thing that we're going to be talking about today is Jonathan Gannon, what he can bring to Green Bay, what you've seen on tape from him already. But before we get there, I just want to get your sort of overarching thoughts on Green Bay's defense,

Jeff Halfley, where this defense stands as is, Michael Parsons coming off of injury.

What you've seen from kind of Jeff Halfley in this Packers defense of the last couple

years and where you would kind of like to see them either head or continue to go in a direction?

Yeah, I was really excited with one to Halfley higher. It really goes in like Lafleur and Sala are pretty close. I think people know that. Halfley has kind of in a roundabout way. He was there during that transition from Sala to what the defense, he's running now to what it was, that Carol Legion of Boom style before.

So he's been part of that transition.

I think a little people had a lot of pause because it was like, well,

they ran a lot of man at Boston College.

Like they were doing some things up front.

It was mostly a four down.

Like what is that necessarily going to lead into here?

I think what we've seen is high simulated pressure usage, a lot of Tampa 2.

He wants to have that match up, whether it's cover 3 or 1, but then flip to a Tampa 2, which is

trip.

That's traditionally how you're going to match.

If you're heavy match in closed post, you're going to use Tampa 2 kind of in that as that change up. Now, not a lot of pressure. I think a lot, you know, and I've talked about this before with like the Packers, like Micah Parsons is great and he's a game record. Don't get me wrong. But the defense was already kind of middle of the road anyway. It wasn't like it was, and it wasn't the year before. So this isn't like an elite defense. Now, that being said, I do feel like there's ways that you can maximize it. I think if you fix the corner room, the safety room to me is super diverse, which is interesting because you're bringing in Jonathan Gannon, played pretty much with three safeties on the field for much of the time when he was at Arizona. I don't think that's

what they're going to do, and we'll get into this, I'm sure. But what I think just in terms is this

is a team, this is a defense that is already kind of in the middle of the pack that needs kind of

a couple of pieces here or there

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