{"id":713709,"date":"2026-01-29T10:03:26","date_gmt":"2026-01-29T10:03:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/713709\/"},"modified":"2026-01-29T10:03:26","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T10:03:26","slug":"packers-hire-bobby-babich-former-bills-dc-to-coaching-staff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/713709\/","title":{"rendered":"Packers hire Bobby Babich, former Bills DC, to coaching staff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The Green Bay Packers made their first new hire to the supporting staff for new defensive coordinator Jonathan Gannon, and it is a big one. With the team on the hunt for a new defensive backs coach to fill the vacancy created with Ryan Downard\u2019s departure to Miami, they are bringing aboard a coach who has multiple years of experience as a defensive coordinator.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">That individual is Bobby Babich, who served as the Buffalo Bills\u2019 DC for the past two years. <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/tompelissero\/status\/2016550753800769671?s=46&amp;t=XovjDziWcTvaI_Vu3HxrxA\" rel=\"nofollow\">According to Tom Pelissero of NFL Network,<\/a> Babich is coming aboard the Packers staff with the titles of secondary coach and defensive pass game coordinator.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">If Babich\u2019s name sounds familiar to Packers fans, there is good reason for it. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.acmepackingcompany.com\/2024\/1\/26\/24052042\/packers-defensive-coordinator-interviews-tracking-confirmed-candidates-staley-durde-babich-parker\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">He interviewed for the DC job in Green Bay two years ago<\/a>, but took the Bills job instead, getting a promotion from his prior position as Buffalo\u2019s linebackers coach; the Packers then hired Jeff Hafley one day later.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Babich does have a deep background coaching defensive backs, however. He was almost exclusively a DBs coach prior to his two years coaching linebackers in Buffalo, having served as the Bills\u2019 safeties coach for four seasons from 2018 to 2021. He also has experience coaching DBs with the Cleveland Browns, serving as assistant DBs coach under head coach Mike Pettine, who would eventually become the Packers\u2019 defensive coordinator.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The titles Babich will hold in Green Bay raise a question about the future of Derrick Ansley, Green Bay\u2019s current defensive pass game coordinator. Ansley has held that position in Green Bay for the last two years, but this news suggests that he will either be taking a different role under Gannon or may be departing Green Bay for a new job elsewhere.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Green Bay still needs to find a replacement for one major hole on the coaching staff: the linebackers coach. Sean Duggan is joining Hafley and Downard in Miami, and one candidate to watch is Nick Rallis, Gannon\u2019s former defensive coordinator in Arizona.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Green Bay Packers made their first new hire to the supporting staff for new defensive coordinator Jonathan&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":713710,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2072],"tags":[7,41,345,97481,2702,2514,2513,6,428],"class_list":{"0":"post-713709","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-green-bay-packers","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-green-bay","10":"tag-green-bay-packers","11":"tag-green-bay-packers-coaching-staff","12":"tag-green-bay-packers-news","13":"tag-greenbay","14":"tag-greenbaypackers","15":"tag-nfl","16":"tag-packers"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115977821126386205","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/713709","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=713709"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/713709\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/713710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=713709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=713709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=713709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}