Did you happen to pay attention to who won this past Wild Card weekend?
Teams with DEFENSE won.
San Diego held Peyton Maning to 1 TD through the air and shut down Joseph Addai and company to 65 yards rushing and only 1 TD.
Arizona….who knew that they could play defense like that?  Harassing Matt Ryan into a couple of costly errors and holding Michael “The Burner” Turner to 42 yards on 18 carries with a score.
Baltimore, well come on, they were relentless against Chad Pennington and the Dolphins forcing Pennington into a franchise record 4 INT’s and snuffing out the Wildcat offense.
Then there was the late Sunday battle between the Eagles and the Vikings.  The Eagles pressured Tavaris Jackson all afternoon and stuffed Adrian Peterson for 83 yards on 20 carries but 40 of those yards were on a single scamper by the league’s most prolific running back.  The point of all of this is you win with defense.  The Giants, Panthers, Steelers and Titans all earned first round byes with their defense. 

The Packers aren’t too far away from being above average on offense; it’s their defense, or lack thereof, that was their Achilles heel in 2008.  With the understandable firing of Bob Sanders, their former defensive coordinator, comes a new opportunity to find someone from the outside to take a look at the talent or deficiencies with a fresh set of eyes.  Don’t get me wrong, it’s still going to take a concentrated effort on GM Ted Thompson’s part to solidify the trenches for this unit to be effective.  The fly in the ointment is Winston Moss, the Packers current linebackers coach.  Moss has interviewed for the Rams job with no second interview scheduled.  Moss was made the Assistant Head Coach, by Mike McCarthy, when McCarthy took over the Packers franchise.  Would McCarthy be so loyal as to promote Moss to D-coordinator simply because he’s the next in line?  It’s not that I’m anti-Moss, it’s more of a fact that there’s significant experienced talent on the open market right now, talent that brings quality credentials and could have an immediate impact for this franchise.  Moss can’t bring the same claim.

UPDATE:  Mike McCarthy has canned the rest of the defensive coaching staff except for Winston Moss.

This is an obvious indicator that whoever gets the coordinator’s job, will hand pick his defensive staff.

Those released are Defensive Coordinator Bob Sanders, Defensive Ends Coach Carl Hairston, Defensive Tackles Coach Robert Nunn, Secondary Coach Kurt Schottenheimer, Defensive Nickel Package/Cornerbacks Coach Lionel Washington and Strength & Conditioning Coordinator Rock Gullickson.