Packers LB Blake Martinez makes PFF’s All-Pro team for start of 2018 season The Green Bay Packers are a team defined by Aaron Rodgers and their offense Geronimo Allison Jersey , but it is a defensive player who is earning some individual honors for his excellent start to the 2018 season.Pro Football Focus has compiled “All-Pro” teams for the first four weeks of the season, and linebacker Blake Martinez is the one player they listed on their equivalent of a first-team unit. Last year, Martinez finished in a three-way tie for the NFL’s lead in total tackles, matching Preston Brown of the Bills and Joe Schobert of the Browns with 144. However, Martinez had the most solo tackles of the group with 96, and also the most pass breakups with nine.This season, the former Stanford linebacker sits in a tie for tenth overall in tackles with 34, including one sack. However, he has seemingly taken a big step forward in his coverage abilities Aaron Jones Jersey , as PFF notes:Joining Martinez on the first team is Seattle’s Bobby Wagner, who has three first-team All-Pro honors from the AP. But Martinez sees his name on this group ahead of Luke Kuechly, who earned an honorable mention (PFF’s equivalent of a second-team). The Packers did land three players on the list in that honorable mention section, however. Two names should come as no surprise to Packers fans: left tackle David Bakhtiari, who has been a rock on the blind side, and rookie punter JK Scott, whose hang time and net punting average are among the very best in the NFL.However, the third name might be a bit of a surprise: safety Ha Ha Clinton-Dix, who comes in as an alternate behind Seattle’s Earl Thomas. Although Clinton-Dix has had a few lapses in coverage and reading routes Lane Taylor Jersey , he does have an interception in three straight games, and his overall performance against Buffalo was one of his best games since his 2016 Pro Bowl season. And then there were seven.Eight days after the conclusion of the 2018 regular season, the first of eight head-coaching jobs has been filled. The Packers, PFT has confirmed, have hired Titans offensive coordinator Matt LaFleur.The 39-year-old LaFleur, who played college football at Saginaw Valley State, started his coaching career there in 2003. After five years as a college coach, LaFleur became an offensive quality control coach with the Texans. Two years later, LaFleur joined Washington. Four seasons later Blake Martinez Jersey , he served as quarterbacks coach in Atlanta, working with Kyle Shanahan. LaFleur then become offensive coordinator with the Rams for one year, before taking that same job in Tennessee (where he was working with a defensive coach, giving him more control over the offense).Now, LaFleur becomes the man in charge of the Packers, with the No. 1 task of working with, and getting the most out of, quarterback Aaron Rodgers. LaFleur has worked with the likes of Matt Schaub, Donovan McNabb Jake Ryan Jersey , Robert Griffin III, Kirk Cousins, Matt Ryan, Jared Goff, and Marcus Mariota. Rodgers will, by far, be LaFleur’s best quarterback and, in turn, his biggest challenge.As Rodgers Davante Adams Jersey , only four years younger than LaFleur, enters the stretch run of his career, LaFleur will be charged with trying to get the most out of a guy who, as it relates to the pursuit of championships, has underachieved in recent years. With G.M. Brian Gutekunst ready to spend on free agents, things could get very interesting very quickly in Green Bay.
