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Locked On Packers - Daily Podcast On The Green Bay Packers

Why the Green Bay Packers defense can level up in Year 2 under Jeff Hafley

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🗓️ 18 July 2025

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Offense gets all the love when it comes to Year 2 transformations, but there are reasons to believe Jeff Hafley's defense can get even better in 2025. Plus Jordan Love can fast-track the rookie receivers by going to training camp when the rookies report.

Transcript

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0:00.0

First with Aaron Rogers, then with Jordan Love.

0:02.1

We talked about the offense taking a step in year two.

0:07.5

Let's not forget.

0:09.2

This is year two with Jeff Halfley.

0:17.5

You are Locked-on Packers, your daily Green Bay Packers podcast, part of the Locked On Podcast Network,

0:25.2

your team every day.

0:30.5

You are Locked on Packers, part of the Locked On Podcast Network, your team every day.

0:35.3

I'm Peter Bukowski and I cover the Packers for The Leap, a newsletter I would love for you to subscribe to. Follow me on Twitter. Peter underscore Bukowski. Follow the podcast on Twitter, locked on Packers. Like us on Facebook. Subscribe to the podcast, iTunes, Spotify, Google Podcasts. Wherever you find podcast, you will find Locked on Packers, the number one Packers podcast on the internet, and the show for fans who know what

0:54.6

happened, they want to know why. And how, thanks to everyone who makes, Slacked on Packers, their

0:59.2

first listen every day. We hope you like starting your day with us, as much as we like

1:03.4

starting our day with you. The Year 2 jump is something we normally talk about with players and with offenses.

1:16.4

I don't want us to forget about this Green Bay Packers defense being in year two with Jeff

1:23.4

Halfley.

1:24.4

I was going back and I was watching some of the things that they did on third down

1:28.4

last year, some of the ways that they got Rishon Gary free, some of the ways that they were able

1:34.0

to generate pressure with simulated pressures, the way they mixed coverages, the evolution

1:40.2

of this defense. They came into the year wanting to be a three deep four under, traditional

1:48.0

vision and break four three zone defense.

1:52.4

And they ended up having more similarities with a Brian Flores simulated pressure, non-traditional Tampa defense than with, say,

2:04.3

the Legion of Boom 4-3, cover three defenses that Pete Carroll ran and that really were the

2:12.7

the genesis of the Robert Sala, Jeff Halfley defenses in San Francisco.

2:19.3

And that speaks to a defensive coordinator who is able to take in trends, adjust on the fly, adjust

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