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Packers' Matt LaFleur keeping Joe Barry as coordinator while vowing to take bigger role in defense

But one thing he won’t do, at least for now, is relieve defensive coordinator Joe Barry of his duties.

“If I thought that was the best solution today, then we’d make that decision,” LaFleur said Monday, one day after the Packers’ 34-20 home loss to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.

LaFleur then explained why he didn't think Barry was to blame. He believes the Packers’ immediate concern is to fix the communication problems on defense that bedeviled them as Bucs quarterback Baker Mayfield picked them apart.

“What’s so disappointing to me is the fact that it was poor communication,” LaFleur said.