Struggles in zone coverage make Kevin King’s long-term fit with the Packers a question

Photo by Lachlan Cunningham/Getty ImagesThe Green Bay Packers’ defense wasn’t bad last year, which is a nice change. What’s not a nice change is just how much it looked like a Dom Capers defense in that they really focused on pass defense while suffering mightily on run defense, and that lack of run-stopping eventually cost the team in the playoffs. Green Bay was also extremely dependent on interceptions to get stops, which is a dangerous place to be in the modern NFL.

While they were a pretty good defense, they also never seemed to add up to the sum of their parts. By DVOA, they were 9th against the pass and 23rd against the run, good for 15th overall. That’s fine, but between the Smiths…