HEART BROKEN: Green bay coach has just died now…

Green Bay — Former Packers assistant coach Kevin Greene, 58, died on Monday at his home in Alabama.

Greene was Green Bay’s outside linebackers coach under Mike McCarthy from 2009 to 2013, including the Packers’ Super Bowl XLV title season.

“The Packers were saddened today to learn of Kevin Greene’s passing,” Packers President/CEO Mark Murphy stated. “He was an excellent coach for us and played a key role in our team’s Super Bowl winning season. He had a lot of enthusiasm and desire. Our guys enjoyed playing for him.

“We extend our sincerest condolences to Kevin’s wife, Tara, and their entire family.”

Greene was a star for four different teams throughout his playing career, earning All-Pro and Pro Bowl honors with the Rams, Steelers, and Panthers, as well as a double-digit sack season with the 49ers. Greene was drafted in the fifth round by the Rams in 1985 following a successful collegiate career at Auburn. During his 15-year NFL career, he recorded 160 sacks, ranking third all-time when he retired after the 1999 season.

He recorded double-digit sacks ten times, appeared in a Super Bowl with Pittsburgh in 1995, and was elected into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 2016.

Greene applied his knowledge and experience to teaching, joining the Packers’ staff after Dom Capers was promoted as defensive coordinator in 2009, coinciding with outside linebacker Clay Matthews’ first season.

Matthews, a first-round draft pick in 2009, went on to earn Pro Bowl honors throughout his first four seasons in the league under Greene’s supervision.

“To have him as my coach was tremendous in my development here,” Matthews remarked a few months after Greene’s Canton induction. “I believe he was able to impart a lot of what he would call principles and tactics for setting the edge on the run, including hand and head positioning. Small nuances throughout the game.”

Greene is famous in Packers mythology for an NFL Films clip of him telling Matthews, “It is time,” during Super Bowl XLV against Pittsburgh after defensive captain Charles Woodson left the game due to injury. Matthews would force a fumble by Steelers RB Rashad Mendenhall, which proved critical to Green Bay’s victory.