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It's too late to salvage season, but Packers must make big changes on defense | Opinion

GREEN BAY – There’s something rotten with the Green Bay Packers defense and even though coach Matt LaFleur is up to his ears figuring out how to score more than a touchdown or two per game, he should be making plans for big changes.

By no means does defensive coordinator Joe Barry shoulder all the blame for the Packers’ 27-17 loss to a short-handed Tennessee Titans team Thursday night at Lambeau Field, but whatever it is he is doing or LaFleur is making him do isn’t working.

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The number of screwups in the secondary has become so glaring that the Packers can’t even cover a two-man route featuring the past-his-prime Robert Woods and rookie Treylon Burks – who has been a non-factor the past five weeks – with four defenders.