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GREEN BAY — Ron Zook’s special teams units might not have been good enough in 2018, but the now ex-Green Bay Packers special teams coordinator is no dummy. After four decades in coaching, he knows full well how the life of a coach works.

“They used to always say there’s two kinds of coaches, those that have been fired or those that are going to get fired,” Zook said late in the Packers’ 6-9-1 season. “And, for the most part, that’s probably true. It’s just the way it is.”

On Thursday, as new Packers coach Matt LaFleur began building his first coaching staff in earnest, Zook got the word he surely wasn’t surprised by: that LaFleur was not retaining him from ex-coach Mike McCarthy’s staff.

ESPN.com was first to report Zook, who coached the special teams for four seasons after taking over for Shawn Slocum following the 2014 NFC Championship Game, was out in Green Bay.

ESPN also reported wide receivers coach David Raih will not return to LaFleur’s staff. The Arizona Cardinals, coached by Kliff Kingsbury, are interested in Raih, as the two coached together at Texas A&M in 2013.

Zook, 64, is under contract for the 2019 season, and he seemed to know what was coming after McCarthy, who brought him to Green Bay, was fired on Dec. 2.