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No Claymaker, No Problem? Packers Stuck in a Quandary at Outside Linebacker

Age is inevitable. Body deterioration is inevitable. Slowing down in the latter stages of a career and not being able to move as swiftly or quickly as one used to — also inevitable.

Long gone are the days of Clay Matthews wreaking havoc on the edge of newly-appointed defensive coordinator Dom Capers' 3-4 scheme, an adjustment that was made after Capers' hiring in 2009. The transition was the first time the Packers ran a 3-4 defensive scheme since 1993 for then-coordinator Ray Rhodes.

Soon-to-be nine years later, Matthews is seen by the vast majority — of social media at least — as a liability.