The Green Bay Packers were manhandled in every facet of the game in their 34-20 loss to the Detroit Lions at home at Lambeau Field last Thursday night. While almost a week has passed since the debacle, fans (and hopefully the players and coaches) are still frustrated by the product that was put on display.

Indeed, former Packers players are not happy with what is being put on the field either. One of these players, Packers Hall of Famer Gilbert Brown, was in attendance for the home loss to the Lions and, as a native of Detroit, Michigan, was not happy.

In fact, Brown went so far as to say the display on the field made him, for the first time in his life, embarrassed to be a Packer.

Gilbert Brown Has Strong Words of the Green Bay Packers Defense Under Joe Barry

Every Monday morning, Brown appears on The Earl Ingram Show for his segment “Under the Helmet with the Gravedigger.” Host Earl Ingram asked Brown about what he thinks went wrong for the Packers against the Lions. Brown replied:

“The Detroit Lions have heat for us. They playing their best game against us because they have never been in this position before. So it’s a different game.

“We got beat up front so bad that I am embarrassed. Don’t put nothing on Jordan Love. Don’t put nothing on the running backs. Don’t put nothing on the defensive backs. Don’t put nothing on the linebackers.

“We got beat between the tackles like mama came down the stairs and caught you doing something you had no business doing.

“We got embarrassed at home, up front, period.”

Ingram then asked Brown about what he would say to the defense if he had been one of the coaches. Brown responded:

“Here’s the thing, Earl. You sitting up there watching the game, you see the scheme. You see what the Lions are trying to do, and defensively, defensive line, me and Santana [Dotson] are sitting there watching the game.

“And sometimes, things happen where it’s like, either you got to be coached up, or your ability has to be better. It was lose and contain, they were getting two-hatted or scooped blocked, and you got to ask yourself, ‘If you’re getting coached up, how does that happen?’

“Are these guys that much better than our defensive line that their scheme of blocking beating our defensive line like that?”

He later said:

“They are getting embarrassed, and I hate to say that because I love me some Kenny Clark, I love me some TJ, I love all them boys, but they got their butts kicked.”

On how he would have reacted as a coach:

“If I’m the defensive line coach, and I walk into that meeting room, I’m losing my job. From what I saw, the things that they were doing were things that can be fixed.”

It should be noted that Brown was watching the game from the Alumni Box, up above the field. Fans may recall that defensive coordinator Joe Barry also moved up to a box to watch and call defensive plays from this year.

If Gilbert Brown and Santana Dotson could see what the Lions were scheming to do, and if they knew how to fix it, there is no excuse in the world for Joe Barry not to have been able to figure out what to do to stop the run and overcome the Lions’ blocking schemes.

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