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Defense Has Always Been First and Foremost for Steelers

DALLAS -- In July and August, Rob Pratte and the folks for whom it's all Steelers all the time every week on KDKA Pittsburgh's "Black and Gold Sunday'' were convinced that Ben Roethlisberger's four-to-six game suspension would sink the season. A couple predicted an 0-4 start, one was optimistic enough to suggest they might...

Packers Talk Up Energetic Practice

The Green Bay Packers say they're peaking at the right time. Packers players and coaches told reporters Thursday morning that they had a great practice on Wednesday, their first practice of Super Bowl week. "I felt the energy," Packers defensive coordinator Dom Capers told Gregg Rosenthal of Pro Football Talk. "I felt...

Dom Capers, Dick LeBeau Have Packer, Steeler Defenses in the Zone

DALLAS -- When Kevin Greene joined the Pittsburgh Steelers as a linebacker in 1993, he often wondered what went on at the evening meetings where head coach Bill Cowher plotted defensive strategy with Dom Capers, his defensive coordinator, secondary coach Dick LeBeau and linebackers coach Marvin Lewis. "I would have...

Dom Capers' Hard Work Finally Results in Super Bowl Trip

ARLINGTON, Texas -- Josh Gordy, 23, was born in 1987. He nimbly maneuvered through the Super Bowl XLV media day mass on Tuesday. Gordy is a Packers rookie cornerback. One NFL season in ... Super Bowl dream fulfilled. Dom Capers, 60, was born in 1950. His first coaching job was at Kent State in 1972. When Gordy was born...

The Top 5 Reasons the Green Bay Packers Are in the Super Bowl

For the past 10 years, the NFC had 10 different representatives in the Super Bowl, so one of the 16 teams from the conference had to go to Dallas on Feb. 6 to play in the biggest game in all of sports. But to the Packers' credit, they were one of the few legit teams from the NFC predicted to go to the Super Bowl. While...

dom capers News From the Web

05/31/12 M.D. Jennings entering Packers safety mix - M.D.... Source: Rotoworld.com Undrafted out of Arkansas State, Jennings played 15 games as a core special teamer last season.
05/01/12 Northeast Ohio to host Division II Winter National... Source: Cleveland.com The NCAA has announced that the Greater Cleveland Sports Commission and Notre Dame College of South Euclid will host the 2013 Division II Winter National Championships Festival at Spire Institute in Geneva.
04/30/12 Packers restock Capers' defense Source: Leader-Telegram - Eau Claire WI Green Bay Packers general manager Ted Thompson can talk all day long about how he let the draft board dictate his choices in the 2012 draft, but let the record show he selected six straight defensive players just four months after his team finished 32nd in the NFL in defense.
04/29/12 Tom Oates: Packers got just what they needed Source: Wisconsin State Journal - Madison WI A postseason statistical analysis by Green Bay Packers coach Mike McCarthy revealed two major culprits in the great defensive collapse of 2011.
04/28/12 Packers go with more defense in round 4, pick Iowa DT... Source: Oconto County Reporter - Oconto WI The Packers run on defensive players continued with Iowa defensive tackle Mike Daniels with the first of their two fourth-round compensatory selections.

Background on dom capers

Ernest Dominic "Dom" Capers (born August 7, 1950) is an American football coach. He is the current defensive coordinator of the Green Bay Packers, and the only man to serve two different National Football League expansion teams as their inaugural head coach.

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