Let Me Tell You Something: Gannon Is Useless Without a Bobby Ferrante in the Middle
Packernet Podcast: Daily Green Bay Packers Podcast
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4.7 • 525 Ratings
🗓️ 15 March 2026
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Summary
Big Sal is fired up — and this time it's not about the front office, the cap sheet, or some rival fan base running their mouth. It's about the most unglamorous, most essential, most criminally overlooked position in all of football: the nose tackle. And if Green Bay doesn't fix it in Pittsburgh, Jonathan Gannon's whole system is dead on arrival.
- Sal breaks down why Gannon's pressure-generation scheme collapses without a run-stuffing anchor — if offenses can just hand it off all day, the pass rush never gets off the ground
- The Bobby Ferrante Principle: how one massive presence changes the entire offensive calculation before a single snap is called
- The 2026 nose tackle draft board — Kayden McDonald, Lee Hunter, Chris McClellan, DeMonte Capehart, and Domonique Orange — who falls to 52, who disappears, and who Green Bay must not overthink
- Sal's daughter drops the most accidental football wisdom of the offseason, and Darlene just shakes her head
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| 0:00.0 | Let me tell you something, Pac Nation, Jonathan Gannon, Green Bay just hired Jonathan Gannon as defensive coordinator, |
| 0:18.0 | the man who built the Philadelphia Eagles into an absolute machine. |
| 0:22.9 | 70 sacks in his final year running that defense. 70. And listen, I am not here to break down |
| 0:29.4 | quarter's coverage today. I am not explaining cover for it anybody. You want the scheme |
| 0:34.6 | breakdown? Go find one of those football nerds online. I love them. God bless them. |
| 0:39.8 | But that is not what we are doing right now. Right now, we are talking about something simpler. |
| 0:44.7 | Something that connects directly to why this draft might be the most important thing Green Bay does all offseason. |
| 0:52.4 | Pack Nation, follow the logic chain with me. |
| 0:55.6 | Stay with me here. |
| 0:56.8 | How does Jonathan Gannon get sacks? |
| 1:00.0 | To get a sack, the quarterback has to be in the pocket. |
| 1:03.7 | For the quarterback to be in the pocket, the offense has to be passing. |
| 1:07.3 | And for them to be passing, they cannot be running. You follow what I'm saying? |
| 1:13.8 | If the offense can just hand the ball off all day, run it down your throat on first and second |
| 1:19.5 | down, stay ahead of the chains, drain the clock, they never have to throw. And if they never |
| 1:26.3 | throw, it does not matter how many stunts Gannon draws up. |
| 1:30.6 | It does not matter how good Micah Parsons is. |
| 1:34.0 | It does not matter if we have the greatest defensive coordinator in the history of the NFL on our sideline. |
| 1:41.6 | Because he does not have the foundation he needs underneath them. |
| 1:46.0 | And that foundation is a nose tackle, a big, mean, 320 pound nose tackle who takes on double teams |
| 1:56.0 | and does not move, who makes offensive linemen miserable just by showing up. That is the missing piece. |
| 2:04.3 | That is what we have got to fix in this draft. But first, I need to tell you a story. Now look, |
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