Dean Lowry doing the 'dirty work' up front for Packers' defense

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Inside linebackers coach Kirk Olivadotti


It's getting aligned correctly, putting your eyes in the right spot and, when your key tells you to do something, go ahead and do it. He trusts what he sees and he's going to do those things. A lot of that is, to his credit, he's looking forward to it and he's ahead of plays sometimes because of the study that he does during the week. The reaction that we had, when you're in the backfield unblocked, we like that. Now, finishing the play, there were some things leading up to the actual miss … there's things that we can correct before he even got to the guy that will help him make those plays. Obviously, he made the second one, so he self-corrected there.


Run defense, it truly is a team game. The defensive line has been doing a tremendous job and the safeties and the corners, those guys are doing a really good job. The outside backers have to set the edge. Run defense is a team thing and everybody has to do their part in that. It's about consistency. It's about doing it every time. You have to be stubborn with it. You have to be stubborn with stopping the run. When teams are stubborn with running the ball, they're just going to keep on going and keep on running. There's going to be the same play over and over and you can't get bored at executing correctly. That's the challenge is we have to stubborn with our run fits.