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Six minutes with defensive coordinator Joe Barry

It’s been a busy offseason for Washington, hiring a new general manager, picking up the quarterback’s contract option and drafting 10 college players. So busy, perhaps, one could almost forget that defensive coordinator Jim Haslett has been replaced by Joe Barry, a respected coach who many fans wouldn’t recognize if they were sitting beside one another on a plane. So much of this coming season rests on what Barry gets out of his newly beefed-up unit, and yet we’ve hardly heard him speak.

Joe Barry, left, here talking to Manti Teo in June 2013 as linebackers coach with the San Diego Chargers, xxxx (Denis Poroy/Associated Press)
Joe Barry, left, here talking to Manti Teo in June 2013 as linebackers coach with the San Diego Chargers, xxxx (Denis Poroy/Associated Press)

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