The Nitro package may finally be seen in all its glory in the upcoming season, only it won’t be called that, won’t really look like that, and will be called by Mike Pettine instead of Dom Capers. OK, so I’m fudging it a little.
When the Green Bay Packers drafted Oren Burks, the former safety-turned-linebacker from Vanderbilt, it signaled a paradigmatic continuation of Green Bay’s play to become a group of interchangeable, athletic pieces on defense. Capers wanted to play three safeties, with one as a de facto linebacker in order to guard against spread offenses while maintaining some semblance of size in the box.