Jerry Montgomery, the defensive line coach for the Green Bay Packers, was fired on Saturday, according to Matt Schneidman of The Athletic. In spite of the fact that the Packers hired Jeff Hafley as their new defensive coordinator, it was previously stated that all of the assistant coaches were under contract through 2024. This indicates that Montgomery was let go or that the coach and the squad “mutually parted ways.”
2015 saw Montgomery become a defensive assistant on Dom Capers’ staff following eight years as a collegiate on-field coach. In 2018, during Mike Pettine’s first season as the defensive coordinator for Green Bay, he was promoted to the position of defensive line coach for the team. Joe Barry also decided to keep him on, and in 2022 he was given the job of running game coordinator. The coach with the longest tenure among the Packers’ staff was Montgomery, by far.
Montgomery will soon interview with the New England Patriots for a staff position, according to Tom Silverstein of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. Who the Packers will bring on to coach their defensive line is yet unknown.
Pass rush specialist Jason Rebrovich, who most recently served as the Packers’ outside linebackers coach, was said to have a “elevated role” on Hafley’s staff earlier this week by Peter Bukowski of The Leap. The team’s move from a 3-4 to a 4-3 front raises the question of whether Rebrovich will only serve as the defensive line coach going forward, as opposed to sharing duties with interior defensive linemen and edge rushers as the team has in the past.
But during this cycle, the Packers have hired one coach besides Hafley. Sean Mannion, a former NFL quarterback, has reportedly accepted a coaching role with the Packers after retiring from the league, per Brady Henderson of ESPN. Head coach Matt LaFleur of Green Bay expressed optimism during his team’s year-end news conference that quarterbacks coach Tom Clements, a 70-year-old who has previously resigned from the NFL, would rejoin the group. Currently, it seems more likely that Mannion will join the Packers as an assistant quarterbacks coach or as a quality control coach than as the starting quarterbacks coach.
