Green Bay Packers defensive coordinator Dom Capers not expected to return next season

Green Bay Packers defensive coordinator Dom Capers, who has been with the team since 2009, is not expected to return next season, league sources told ESPN's Adam Schefter.

This will be the most significant of the off-season changes to Green Bay's defensive coaching staff.

Capers, 67, is coming to the end of his ninth season in charge of the Packers' defense. It's the longest he's spent in any NFL job since he broke into the league with the New Orleans Saints in 1986.

He was twice a head coach -- both with expansion teams (the Carolina Panthers in 1995-98, and the Houston Texans in 2001-2005) -- and was fired from both jobs.

Capers addressed speculation of his job earlier this week by saying "my plans are from week to week in this business."

Dom Capers has been the Packers' defensive coordinator since 2009. He has also served as head coach to two expansion teams -- the Panthers and the Texans. AP Photo/Bob Leverone

"One thing I've learned through a long career is you don't want to spend any time in this business concerning yourself with things that you don't have any control over, you know? You put the blinders on, you go to work, you try to be consistent in the way you do things and try to get guys ready to play," Capers said.

The Packers' defense will finish outside the top 15 in the league rankings for the sixth time in seven years. If the Packers don't improve from their current 22nd overall defensive ranking after Sunday's finale at Detroit, it will be the fourth time in that stretch in which they've finished in the bottom third of the NFL (including a dead-last ranking in 2011).

Capers hasn't fielded a defense ranked in the top 10 since the Super Bowl season of 2010, when it was fifth.

ESPN's Rob Demovsky contributed to this report.