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In the same weekend that the Green Bay Packers fired their longest-tenured defensive assistant coach Womens Muhammad Wilkerson Jersey , Joe Whitt, they find themselves needing to replace their longest-tenured coach overall. James Campen had been coaching the offensive line in some capacity in Green Bay since 2004, before Mike McCarthy’s arrival as the head coach. Now, he is moving on to a new opportunity.Campen has agreed to become the associate head coach/offensive line coach for the Cleveland Browns, taking that position under new head coach Freddie Kitchens. ESPN’s Rob Demovsky first reported the news. That first title is a step up for Campen, who spent 2018 as the Packers’ offensive run game coordinator and o-line coach after coaching just the offensive line since 2007.According to Ryan Wood of Packersnews.com, Campen was under contract with the Packers for 2019 http://www.packerslockerroom.com/authentic-demetri-goodson-jersey , which means that the Packers had to agree to allow him to interview elsewhere for non-head coaching positions. The fact that they did so suggests that new Packers head coach Matt LaFleur wants to make his own hire rather than retaining Campen, who was widely expected to be a candidate to remain in Green Bay.In addition to landing Campen, the Browns have hired an intriguing offensive coordinator candidate as well. Todd Monken accepted that position in Cleveland on Sunday, one day after he interviewed for the same job in Green Bay under LaFleur. That now sets up an intriguing and exciting offensive staff for the Browns, as Kitchens had great success with rookie Baker Mayfield down the stretch in 2018 and Monken led the high-flying Buccaneers’ passing game in recent years.For now, the Packers’ attention for offensive coordinator will likely shift to Nathaniel Hackett or another as-yet-unknown candidate. In the meantime, LaFleur will also need to bring aboard a new offensive line coach as well. The first snippet emerged on Friday Muhammad Wilkerson Jersey White , and it wasn’t a great look for a franchise quarterback with a propensity for passive-aggressive commentary. The full story has now landed, and it’s clear that both Packers coach Matt LaFleur and Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers currently don’t see eye-to-eye regarding the issue of audibles, and that they’re not bashful about publicly discussing it.“Aaron and I have had some good talks, and we’re going to have to talk a lot more — and one thing we have to work through is the audible thing,” LaFleur told Mike Silver of NFL Media. “We’re running a system I first picked up while working with Kyle [Shanahan] in Houston a decade ago, and we’ve never really had a quarterback who’s had complete freedom to change plays at the line, because that’s not really the way the offense is set up. But http://www.packerslockerroom.com/authentic-deshone-kizer-jersey , I mean, this is Aaron Rodgers. He’s had a lot of freedom to make those calls, and deservedly so. Now, how do we reconcile that, and get to a place where we put him in the best position to succeed?”However they do it, it’s clear that Rodgers wants more control than the offense currently gives him. Here’s the full version of the quote that made a stir over the weekend.“It’s a conversation in progress,” Rodgers told Silver. “I don’t think you want to ask me to turn off 11 years [of recognizing defenses]. We have a number of ‘check with mes’ and line-of-scrimmage stuff. It’s just the other stuff that really not many people in this league can do. That’s not like a humble brag or anything; that’s just a fact. There aren’t many people that can do at the line of scrimmage what I’ve done over the years. I mean http://www.packerslockerroom.com/authentic-lane-taylor-jersey , obviously, Tommy [Brady] can do it, no doubt. Peyton [Manning] could do it. Drew [Brees] can do it. [Patrick] Mahomes will be able to do it. Ben [Roethlisberger] has called the two-minute for years. There are a few of us who’ve just done it. It’s kind of second nature. And that’s just the icing on the cake for what I can do in this offense.”The real question is whether LaFleur wants his cake to be iced.“[W]e pride ourselves on having concepts that have answers for whatever,” LaFleur said. “Now, it might not always be the best answer, but you have an answer. But when there are plays that are called that have maybe not a very good answer, we typically call two plays and we run one or the other Vince Biegel Jersey , based upon the look that the defense is giving us. The quarterback chooses, and there are criteria: We try to teach him the criteria for why we would want this play over the other play.”There’s the core of the debate. LaFleur’s system has two plays and one or the other is used. Rodgers would like to have the freedom to broaden that menu. The challenge for LaFleur will be to get Rodgers to buy in to the approach, and then to perhaps exercise some discretion when it’s time to go through his reads.