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Aaron Rodgers may have a whole new coaching staff to work with next season with the Green Bay Packers Jermaine Whitehead Jersey , but don’t expect the offense to change too much under the new regime.According to PackersNews.com, offensive coordinator Nathaniel Hackett said on Monday that the new coaching staff isn’t looking to completely tear down the type of playbook that Rodgers has thrived in throughout his run as a starter in Green Bay.“You don’t want to necessarily treat it as a start over because he’s done so many great things,” Hackett said. “I think the whole thing is about working together and kind of bonding together and understanding this isn’t about me, it’s not about (head coach) Matt (LaFleur), it’s not about Aaron. It’s about the Green Bay Packers. It’s about what’s best for the entire organization and the offense and I think it’s just about making that relationship with him.”Hackett joined Matt LaFleur’s staff with the Packers this offseason after being fired by the Jacksonville Jaguars in late November. On one hand, the Packers needed to switch up the situation in Green Bay as the Aaron Rodgers/Mike McCarthy marriage had clearly run its course. On the other hand, Rodgers has been among the league’s best quarterbacks for a long time and there isn’t a need to completely reinvent the wheel.That doesn’t mean there won’t be some tweaks and changes to the system LaFleur and Hackett will implement moving forward.“A lot of the same concepts kind of cross over Antonio Morrison Jersey ,” Hackett said. “I just think kind of some of the emphasis of some of the thing that we want to do are going to be different. When you take a guy like Aaron Rodgers – who is a very good football player, I mean, he’s kind of one of those guys where you can kind of pretty much do a lot of everything. I think a lot of it is going to carry over. I think some of the language will be different but it’s going to be a lot of the same premises for him.” Donald Penn acknowledged being a big rusty when he got his first game action in more than nine months at an unfamiliar position.He was beaten for a sack on the opening drive for the Oakland Raiders and allowed a few other pressures in his first NFL start at right tackle after 170 games and three Pro Bowl selections on the left side."I was excited to get out there and try it out live," Penn said. "It's a different speed in practice than it is in the game. I wish I could have done some things a lot better than I did. I saw some things that I need to fix and some things I need to work on. The biggest part of it was just trying to build up my confidence, trying to get some confidence in this foot, pushing off on it and planting and sustaining against other big guys going into me. That was the biggest part."The 35-year-old Penn had not played a game since Dec. 15 when he injured his right foot in a game, leading to a season-ending surgery. Penn missed the entire offseason program and watched as the Raiders planned for life after he's done by drafting Kolton Miller in the first round to be the team's long-term left tackle.Penn started training camp on the physically unable to perform list and took a pay cut for this season before being activated two weeks ago. He was then immediately moved to the right side Jimmy Graham Jersey , where he had played only 24 career snaps in an emergency back in the 2016 opener.Penn said he's still getting used to the switch, which he has equated to learning how to write with the opposite hand. Penn has spent extra time on the practice field since coming back from the injury and vows to be ready for the season opener Sept. 10, against the Los Angeles Rams.He said he's even open to playing the exhibition finale on Thursday night at Seattle just to get more work even though the rest of the starting offense is expected to sit out."The biggest thing I need from myself is just more repetition, just more practice," he said. "The good thing is, time is on my side. I have time to get this stuff fixed, time to get more comfortable over there and get a better feel on that side and the different mechanics and techniques over there. That's one thing I'm happy about is that time is on my side."Penn showed he still needs some work after getting 20 snaps in the exhibition game against Green Bay.Oakland's opening drive that game stalled when Packers linebacker Reggie Gilbert bull-rushed Penn and knocked him into quarterback Derek Carr Elgton Jenkins Green Bay Packers Jersey , forcing a fumble that the Raiders recovered. That turned a possible touchdown into a field goal.Penn was beaten a couple other times but coach Jon Gruden said he was pleased with the overall play."I'm sure people will point to that and say it wasn't a good performance," Gruden said. "But I thought for his first time back on the field in a long time, going against the first team in the Packers, I thought he did some good things."