Joe Barry takes blame for having Preston Smith on Davante Adams in the Packers' Monday Night Football game vs. Raiders

Green Bay Packers defensive coordinator Joe Barry called it the "worst play" of the night for his unit in the team's 17-13 disheartening loss to the Las Vegas Raiders.

If you watched the Monday night game on Oct. 9, you know the play Barry's talking about. On the broadcast, ESPN analyst Troy Aikman could only laugh on the replay.

It was late in the third quarter after the Packers had just regained the lead, 13-10, when the Packers' 265-pound linebacker Preston Smith was lined up against Raiders' All-Pro wide receiver Davante Adams, a player who can make even the best cornerbacks look average.

After the former Packers star schooled Smith at the line, Adams caught the short pass from Jimmy Garoppolo before running for the first down. The Raiders would score the eventual game-winning TD on that drive. Fans on social media, not surprisingly, were left stunned by the personnel coverage of Barry's defense.

Packers defensive coordinator Joe Barry takes blame for having Preston Smith on Davante Adams

Earlier this week, Barry, the often-criticized defensive coordinator, addressed the play for the first time with the Packers returning from their bye.

"That's totally on me," Barry said Monday in an 18-minute news conference. "For us to be able to put him in that situation we got to have a mechanism to get out of it. And we just have to have a built-in check, which we will and we can do. But based on the personnel that they were in, we never thought it would come up. Ended up being a bad play. That was me. It was not Preston."

With Jaire Alexander and Rasul Douglas on the field at the same time, Barry was asked why the players couldn't have switched who they were lined up against.

Barry said the Packers didn't have the "mechanisms" to get out of the situation when he called a coverage that required Smith to be in that position, while the Raiders put Adams in the slot at the boundary.

"I wish it was that easy," Barry responded.

Barry at one point got defensive as he continued in his answer, looking at the reporter on why that play was the basis for his question and not Adams' other catches. The Packers limited Adams to just four catches for 45 yards, which up to that game were season lows.

"You almost have to just, if you're Preston, you almost have to just survive the down and try to keep it to as minimal as you can," Barry reiterated. "But that's a poor matchup for him to be in."

Pressed on why Smith and Douglas, who were lined up next to each other, couldn't adjust on the fly, Barry again said the team was out of options: "Cause Preston isn't a corner. You got mechanisms to survive the down and I didn't give him one. It was probably the worst play of the night, unfortunately."

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Joe Barry wants to see more consistency from the Packers defense rest of season

During the press conference Barry also discussed what he's looking for from his unit moving forward — it's something he spoke about in the offseason as well.

"Consistency is a word that I use a lot and consistency is the truest measure of performance. That's our focus," said Barry, whose defense held last year's NFL rushing leader Josh Jacobs to just 69 yards on 20 carries a week after the Detroit Lions' David Montgomery pounded them for 121 yards and the Packers allowed 211 total rushing yards.

The Packers defense will look for this consistency beginning with the team's Week 7 game against Russell Wilson and the 1-5 Denver Broncos on Sunday.

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