Green Bay Packers: Biggest Matchups Facing Ha Ha Clinton-Dix in Rookie Season

May 24, 2014   ·   Bob Fox   ·   Jump to comments

The Green Bay Packers are hopeful that rookie safety Ha Ha Clinton-Dix will be a playmaker for their defense in 2014. The unit coordinated by Dom Capers needs one badly, as the defense plummeted statistically in the second half of the 2013 season.
Going into their Week 9 game against the Bears last year in Green Bay, the Packers were ranked 11th in total defense and fourth in rushing defense. By the time the season ended, the Packers fell all the way to the 25th ranking in total defense and also to 25th in rushing defense.
That is quite a fall. The pass defense wasn't much better, as the Packers were ranked 24th in that category.
The biggest eyesore on the defense was the play of the safeties last season. Not one of the safeties had an interception, and that hasn't happened in over 60 years. Additionally, the tackling in the secondary was abysmal at times, and the safeties led the way.
As noted by Bob McGinn of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Morgan Burnett led...

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