Tramon Williams is a veteran cornerback in the league, and he has been a part of a few different defensive schemes. He played under Dom Capers with the Green Bay Packers from 2007 to 2014. He then went to the Cleveland Browns and the Arizona Cardinals before coming back to the Packers this NFL offseason.

Williams is excited that the Packers brought in Mike Pettine who was his head coach when he was with the Cleveland Browns.

“Mike (Pettine) is a really big addition,” Williams told Aaron Nagler of the USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin. “Obviously, I think a new scheme and look to this defense is what we really needed. To bring him in, a guy whose defense has performed at a high level pretty much everywhere he has went … From the Jets to Baltimore, even in Cleveland we had a really great defense.

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For Pettine, he has been able to adapt to the changes that NFL offenses have had which in turn have forced the way that defense is played. For former defensive coordinator Dom Capers, he was stuck in playing an old-school style of defense, and that allowed teams to pass him by.

“To bring him in here … I think his defense is modern day. I was here in the era when Dom first came in. When he first came in, the defense was modern era and obviously, the league caught up to it. … You have to make certain adjustments and over the years those adjustments weren’t made.”

For Capers, a lot of the defensive issues the Packers had over the last few years was masked by what Aaron Rodgers did. The Packers did win a lot of games when Capers was the defensive coordinator, but that was more about what Rodgers did rather than what his defense was able to do.