{"id":507369,"date":"2026-01-25T12:27:34","date_gmt":"2026-01-25T16:27:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=507369"},"modified":"2026-01-25T12:27:34","modified_gmt":"2026-01-25T16:27:34","slug":"packers-will-appoint-gannon-as-the-defensive-coordinator","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/packers-will-appoint-gannon-as-the-defensive-coordinator\/","title":{"rendered":"Packers will appoint Gannon as the defensive coordinator"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Green Bay Packers will hire the ex-Cardinals coach Jonathan Gannon as their DC.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Packers?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#Packers<\/a> are hiring former <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Cardinals?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#Cardinals<\/a> HC Jonathan Gannon as their new DC under HC Matt LaFleur.<\/p>\n<p>He replaces Jeff Hafley. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/H1dAxtEAdH\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/H1dAxtEAdH<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Ari Meirov (@MySportsUpdate) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MySportsUpdate\/status\/2015437483341746623?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">January 25, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Jonathan will replace Jeff Hafley, who became the Dolphins\u2019 manager in the past week after 2 campaigns running Green Bay\u2019s defense.<\/p>\n<p>With the Packers, Gannon will take over a defense that features reigning 1<sup>st<\/sup>-team All-Pro DE Micah Parsons and 2nd-team All-Pro safety Xavier McKinney. Gannon will become the 4<sup>th<\/sup> DC in coach Matt LaFleur&#8217;s 8 years with the team.<\/p>\n<p>Hafley&#8217;s successful 2-year stint followed 2 two coordinators who were let go \u2013 Pettine and Barry.<\/p>\n<p>Jonathan was dismissed by Arizona after a 3-14 record in the current campaign and went 15-36 in 3 campaigns as the Cardinals\u2019 boss. The Packers&#8217; head coach likes the fact that his new defensive coordinator has experience in the NFL as a manager.<\/p>\n<p>LaFleur inked a deal extension with Green Bay this month, while the GM Gutekunst and vice president\/director of football operations Ball are expected to sign new contracts soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Green Bay Packers will hire the ex-Cardinals coach Jonathan Gannon as their DC. The #Packers are hiring former #Cardinals HC Jonathan Gannon [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":507370,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17571,27014],"news_category":[16703],"gn_keywords":[18162,27015],"acf":{"news_source":"","link_picture":"","announce":"Green Bay agreed to hire Jonathan as DC.","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/507369"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=507369"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/507369\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":507371,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/507369\/revisions\/507371"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/507370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=507369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=507369"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=507369"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=507369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}