GREEN BAY, Wis. Did Green Bay Packers defensive coordinator Joe Barry consider matching Jaire Alexander against Vikings star Justin Jefferson on Sunday?No, Barry said on Thursday, though he left open the door for doing it in future matchups.Barrys supposedly dominant defense was di sected by Jefferson for nine catches, 184 yards and two touchdowns in Week Julius Randle Jersey 1. , Barry went with his preferred zone defenses in hopes that the overall talent in Green Bays secondary would be enough to slow the indomitable Jefferson.Jaire is definitely worthy of that, Barry said. I think hes a type of corner that you can do something like that with, and we will. Im sure there will be weeks where we want to do that. We think that Jaire Alexander, if not the, hes one of the best corners in the National Football League. But we feel pretty good about Eric Stokes and Rasul Douglas, as well.Barry had one of the highest zone-coverage rates in the NFL last season. Its how he prefers to line up. In zone, its practically impo sible to match one cornerback against one receiver if that receiver motions from Point A to Point B, because all the other defensive backs have to move into other zones, as well.Thats not a real big challenge for the guy youre asking to do that, but it is for the other 10 people around him, Barry said.The alternative is to play man, , and put Alexander on Jefferson, Rasul Douglas on Adam Thielen and Eric Stokes on K.J. Osborn. Its much easier to do if you just say, Hey, this week were exclusively going to play man, Barry said. I call it dude coverage. Hey, youre going to go cover that dude every snap. Much easier in man. But in zone, thats where the challenges lie.Scroll to ContinueSo, why not just play man? Whats the Jahlil Okafor Jersey drawback of relying on his three dudes at corner?I dont think theres a drawback, Barry said. I just think theres an overall general philosophy of how you play defense, first and foremost. Basically, what youre going to decide to do that game plan, that week. We are, if you were to cla sify us, were much more of a zone team. But we have many man principles that we can deploy. And the big thing that you guys keep talking about, in traveling a specific player to a specific player, it is much easier to do when youre exclusively playing man. Where in lies the problem is when youre playing zone, especially when they move that player all over the place.Why didnt Barry didnt scrap his plan and let his Jrue Holiday Jersey corners play man? He never did say. Maybe the team spent so much of camp in zone that he didnt feel good about changing midstream. Still, the Packers made Alexander the highest-paid cornerback in the NFL, re-signed Douglas in free agency and used a first-round pick on Stokes. Theres a lot of talent at corner for Barry to use. Thats a luxury we have with not only Ja but Stokesy and Sul, Barry said. We have three guys that Im not afraid to play man coverage at all. We have three corners that can do that. Sometimes, you might have one corner that can go do that, but your other guys are probably, Ehh, I cant play man. Were in a luxury in that we have a secondary that they can play zone, they can play man, whatever we deploy. We just decided going into that game, we felt really good about all three of them, not just one of them. That was our decision. Well learn from it. Maybe well have a different plan next time we see them.Barrys game plan might have been flawed but the execution of it wasnt good, either. Ultimately, Green Bays secondary is too good and too experienced to let premier receivers run through the secondary practically unchallenged. It was a shocking display considering how that unit made life miserable for Aaron Rodgers all summer and gave the Saints fits for two days of joint practices. How is it po sible for a veteran secondary to dominate all summer but get dominated the first time something mattered?Youve got to just go out there and play, secondary coach Jerry Gray said on Wednesday. Its different. Weve got a different team. I know New Orleans Pelicans Hats the expectation of this group is really high, especially coming off from last year. The biggest thing weve got to do is weve got to go back and match that because nothing is ever the same. You cant expect it to be the same unle s you go out there and youre producing. Thats the thing weve got to keep doing in our group.Looking forward, the Packers will host the Chicago Bears on Sunday night before a showdown at the Tom Brady-led Tampa Bay Buccaneers next week. It will be up to Barry and Brandon Ingram Jersey Gray to improve upon the plan and the players to go out and execute it.A lot of times when you experience a game like that, the first thing you wonder and hope is, God, was the effort there? Was the physicality there? And it was, Barry said. We made sure we pointed that out to the guys. There was six or seven really bad plays that, if I had a magic wand, we could go back and change, but the big thing is that we learned from it, we moved on and weve had two great days of practice and were onto the Bears.