Does NOT hiring Christian Parker telegraph who the Green Bay Packers REALLY want as DC?

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🗓️ 23 January 2026

⏱️ 29 minutes

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The Dallas Cowboys hired Christian Parker, one of the fan favorites, to be the Green Bay Packers next defensive coordinator. But Matt LaFleur had a chance to hire him and didn't. Peter Bukowski thinks these points us directly at who Green Bay DOES want to hire. Plus, why there's been no news on staff changes, and why the coaching carousel has shown why Green Bay was right to choose continuity.

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0:00.0	The Green Bay Packers had a chance to hire Christian Parker and didn't do it.
0:05.6	Now he's the Dallas Cowboys defensive coordinator.
0:09.2	I think this tells us where the Packers want to go and what candidate they want to hire.
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1:19.7	to get started. Why haven't we heard about any staff changes with the Green Bay Packers on
1:24.5	offense or defense? I have a theory about that.
1:29.9	The coaching carousel is proving right now what a good decision it was to keep Matt LaFleur.
1:36.0	But speaking of coaching decisions, the Green Bay Packers will not be hiring Christian Parker
1:42.3	to be their defensive coordinator because the Dallas Cowboys will be doing it.
1:48.7	If the Packers had really, really wanted Christian Parker to be their defensive coordinator,
1:55.7	they could have just hired him when they interviewed him.
1:59.7	And they did not. And so one of two things is true. Either
2:06.3	they miscalculated how interested other teams would be in him. I don't think that's likely because
2:12.3	the last time they interviewed him before Jeff Halfley was hired, they really liked him. That is what I had
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