"It's been great," Barnes said. "I've really enjoyed it so far. I really enjoyed the opportunity to be involved with special teams and I will remain involved with special teams. But I'm just really passionate about coaching defense. So, for me, I've really enjoyed the opportunity to dive headfirst into defense.
"Kerry and I have worked in chorus through this transition and Kerry remains to be very involved with our defensive backs. But I think this is something that is helping him, because the back-end is so involved. I think maybe taking some of that off his plate and alleviating some of that stress or time spent allows him to really dive into the coordinator role and see some things that maybe you don't see as well when you're immersed in the defensive backfield. You maybe don't see the whole picture quite as well type of thing.
"So, hopefully it's allowing him to have some more time to really focus on the coordinating."