The Green Bay Packers gave up 363 rushing yards and three rushing touchdowns against the Philadelphia Eagles on the national stage on Sunday night and it couldn’t have been worse timing for defensive coordinator Joe Barry. Barry was offered the Packers’ coordinator job in 2021 after then-Wisconsin defensive coordinator Jim Leonhard turned it down, leading to Barry getting his third chance to call defenses in the NFL.
Earlier on Sunday, Leonhard — at the time the Badgers’ interim head coach — was passed up for Wisconsin’s head coaching vacancy that ended up going to former Cincinnati head coach Luke Fickell.