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"Green Bay Packers outside linebackers coach Kevin Greene has made the decision to step away from coaching.The announcement was made Friday by Head Coach Mike McCarthy.\u201CI am stepping away from the NFL at this time in order to spend more time with my wife, Tara, and our children, Gavin and Gabrielle,\u201D said Greene. \u201CI will miss coaching and will try to return after our kids move on to college if a team will have me.\"In Greene\u2019s five seasons with the team (2009-13), the Packers registered 204 sacks, No. 4 in the NFL over that span, with the outside linebackers accounting for 91.5 of those sacks. In \u201909, Greene was part of a staff that guided the Green Bay defense to a No. 2 overall ranking in the league, the highest mark since the 1996 team finished as the No. 1 defense.\u201CMy experience here with the Green Bay Packers has been nothing but positive. I am eternally grateful for the opportunity that Mike McCarthy and Ted Thompson have blessed me with. I have a peace about the productivity that I helped bring forward in all of the fine young men that have been entrusted to me these past five years. I am most proud of all their accomplishments and the fine young men they've become in this league.\u201DUnder Greene\u2019s direction, LB Clay Matthews earned four straight Pro Bowl selections (2009-12) as he became the first player in franchise history to be named to the all-star game in each of his first four seasons in the league.\u201CKevin approached me recently to express his desire to step away from coaching so that he could spend more time with his family,\u201D said McCarthy. \u201COn behalf of the entire organization, I want to thank him for all of his contributions and hard work over the past five seasons with the Packers.\""^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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