NO HOMECOMING: Packers tab Jonathan Gannon as defensive coordinator rather than wait on Jim Leonhard

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🗓️ 25 January 2026

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Just hours after "mutual interest" reports around the Packers and Jim Leonhard, the Packers hire former Arizona Cardinals HC Jonathan Gannon. What does Gannon bring to GB? How can he help this team? What do they need to maximize what he does and vice versa? Plus, why the coaching cycle badly needs to be overhauled.

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0:00.0	The Green Bay Packers did not hire Jim Leonard despite the reported mutual interest over the weekend.
0:08.4	In fact, just hours after we got those reports, the Packers reportedly hire Jonathan Gannon
0:15.0	to be the defensive coordinator to replace Jeff Halfley.
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1:12.4	It was not Jim Leonard, as we suspected it would be when we had this discussion on
1:18.7	Friday.
1:19.5	And I want to talk about what this means moving forward that Jonathan Gannon is going to be
1:24.0	the defensive coordinator.
1:25.7	I want to talk about what it means that the coaching cycle is so genuinely screwed up
1:32.5	that a defensive coordinator who might have wanted this job and a Packers team that
1:37.3	might have wanted that defensive coach could not ultimately even engage because of the way this is all structured.
1:46.4	But we have to start with Jonathan Gannon and what this means for this Packers defense.
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