Packers Must Negate Bears' Special-Teams Edge

News Bot · Sep 10, 2009

Shawn Slocum couldn't ask for a better opportunity to make a good first impression.

The Packers' new special teams leader, put in charge of turning around units that in Head Coach Mike McCarthy's words "took a step back" in 2008, has a whale of a challenge in his debut as an NFL coordinator on Sunday night.

The Chicago Bears bring to Lambeau Field not only the best special teams units in the NFC North in recent years, featuring return dynamos in Devin Hester and Danieal Manning and veteran legs in kicker Robbie Gould and punter Brad Maynard, but also a group that has regularly made game-changing plays against the Packers in the McCarthy era.

"I think they do a great job," Slocum said of Chicago. "I love the way they play. Just from a football fan's standpoint, I like the way they play. Now, we're going to play highly combative special teams regardless of who we play. We need to be productive, and it just so happens we're playing a very good unit."

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Source: Packers.com

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