GREEN BAY, Wis. -- Mike Pettine did not have far to go to find his next job. The Chicago Bears hired the former Green Bay Packers defensive coordinator as a senior defensive assistant Wednesday.
Pettine spent the last three years running the Packers defense but was not retained after he let his contract expire following the 2020 season.
The Packers ranked ninth in total defense last season under Pettine, but a defensive breakdown at the end of the first half in the NFC Championship Game on what coach Matt LaFleur called "a flat-out miscommunication" between him and Pettine on what the call should have been on Tom Brady's 39-yard touchdown pass with one second left in the second quarter ultimately led to LaFleur's decision to move on.