Don’t expect to see the Green Bay Packers’ new defensive coordinator straddling the sidelines on game days this year. Mike Pettine plans on staying in the booth, where he says he can maximize the amount of information he can digest.

“I’m an information guy,” Pettine said Tuesday, “so I’ll have a lot of information spread out in front of me. When you’re on the sideline you’re usually limited to what you’re carrying.”

In 2013, Pettine said he decided to call the defense from the sideline based on how offenses were going up-tempo, so he tried to economize the communications process by calling plays directly on the sideline, which would cut out the middleman responsible for relaying the plays to the players.

Aside from that one year in Buffalo, Pettine has spent his remaining time as a coordinator in the booth, including all his time in New York with the Jets.

“I found in Buffalo, when I called (plays) from the sideline…that I felt I was shooting from the hip a little bit too much and regretted it,” Pettine said.

Pettine said he prefers to look at his call sheet and cross out the plays he’s called, which was something he couldn’t do fingering through a laminated packet on the sideline.

“I don’t wanna be the guy looking like he’s flipping through a Cheesecake Factory menu,” Pettine joked.

For him, it’s simply more beneficial to be the eye on the sky.

“The positives of being up top and being in that quieter atmosphere where there’s less emotion and it gives me access to more information…I just think the positives outweigh the ability to be on the field,” Pettine said.

Whereas the sideline can be a little chaotic, the booth offers a library-like workspace for Pettine, where he can use the relative peace to think through his plan, especially between series when he said he likes to study the data and information and refine his approach.

And while being in the booth does have its benefits, Pettine’s main concern – communication with players – is no longer the issue it once was, especially since he has trust in his pass and run game coordinators, Joe Whitt Jr. and Patrick Graham, respectively.

Pettine said he and the pass and run game coordinators will have a communication system in place for making two sets of corrections after every series. On the first line, they will make the pass corrections. On the other, they will make the run corrections. From there, they’ll relay the information to the players.

If need be, Pettine will call down to talk to a player directly but he said he has faith in the information Whitt and Graham, whom Pettine called “outstanding coaches,” can communicate to the players in real time.

The game-changer, so to speak, has been the fact that he knows he can speak directly to whoever has the communication helmet (likely to be Blake Martinez), which means no middleman and little lag between calling the play and getting it on the field.

“I debated it before but the fact that I can speak directly to the linebacker from the press box cinched it for me,” Pettine said.

One other benefit? The players won’t be the direct recipients of the wrath from an angry Pettine.

“I think the guys will be I’m happy I’ll be in the booth. I can be a bit of a hot-blooded Italian every now and again,” Pettine said. “I think they’d rather have me upstairs than ranting and raving on the sideline.”