2024 Weekly Report Card: Matt LaFleur

[milani]

Maybe we will stage a miraculous second half comeback and can reassess if/when that happens but so far this isn’t going much to dispel the notion that LaFleur tends to get out-coached in big games/when it counts. Yet another game where our opponent looks dramatically more well-prepared than us.

May see Willis come out. Not worth the risk of letting Love get his head knocked off. We get uphill and stopped running the ball.

 

[OldSchool101]

May see Willis come out. Not worth the risk of letting Love get his head knocked off. We get uphill and stopped running the ball.

Sad part is we got anxious. Had we just run the ball and get to this point and get to 14 points it’s still in reach.
14-28. We just hit the panic button too early.

 

[milani]

Sad part is we got anxious. Had we just run the ball and get to this point and get to 14 points it’s still in reach.
14-28. We just hit the panic button too early.

Lot of what ifs. 1st drive we get a crucial false start, a drop that could have gone for a TD, and a missed FG. If we get to the 10 yard line he makes that.

 

[XPack]

Week 4: vs Vikings

Another scratchy coaching outing for MLF. The game plan looked to be for a prime in-form Love, rather than one playing his first game back from injury. (Over) Ambitious and backfired quick. Easy to blame Narveson, but problems are more deeper than that. Very mixed gameplan that neither never really utilized either the pass nor run game well till HT.

The problems with adapting to a moving game seems to be MLFs weakness. If his gameplan doesn't work, he just takes too long to make adjustments, rather preferring to push through hoping it clicks later on. We should have had far more runs and short/screen passing and gradually ease Love in. It worked well with Willis so not reason it won't work well with Love at least till Q2.

Coach rating: C-

Sidenote: Despite the loss, this actually boosts my confidence on Love especially in adverse game like this. We can always come back as long as he's in there. Had this with Aaron & Brett and now getting the same vibe with JL.

 

[milani]

Week 4: vs Vikings

Another scratchy coaching outing for MLF. The game plan looked to be for a prime in-form Love, rather than one playing his first game back from injury. (Over) Ambitious and backfired quick. Easy to blame Narveson, but problems are more deeper than that. Very mixed gameplan that neither never really utilized either the pass nor run game well till HT.

The problems with adapting to a moving game seems to be MLFs weakness. If his gameplan doesn't work, he just takes too long to adjustments, rather preferring to push through hoping it clicks later on. We should have had far more runs and short/screen passing and gradually ease Love in. It worked well with Willis so not reason it won't work well with Love at least till Q2.

Coach rating: C-

Sidenote: Despite the loss, this actually boosts my confidence on Love especially in adverse game like this. We can always come back as long as he's in there. Had this with Aaron & Brett and now getting the same vibe with JL.

In the 2 Willis games we were not up against potent offenses with experienced QBs and few weapons. So our D allowed us to be in the game. The pressure of trying to match the Vikings drive for drive was not wise. You want to keep their offense on the sideline as long as you can. It rests your defense if nothing else. But the reality of having to play uphill without a kicker pushed MLF to dial it up. You could see his anger at the end of the half.

 

[tynimiller]

To me MLF deserves a freaking A for the second half, D- for the first half and a C or C- as a whole. Just how it felt for me.

 

[OldSchool101]

Sidenote: Despite the loss, this actually boosts my confidence on Love especially in adverse game like this. We can always come back as long as he's in there. Had this with Aaron & Brett and now getting the same vibe with JL.

While it sucks to watch MN move to
4-0 they have deserved it. I still believe they have caught teams at the right time also, which has aided their perfect record. The Packers came nowhere close to playing their best football. I’m trying to be fair MN because they get credit for causing some disruption, but many plays were broken down because it’s early season and Love missed time. Imo that partially led to a lethargic start and a host of missed opportunity.

I don’t like to blame injuries but they do factor some. Missing J’aire did not help. Although I was proud of us holding the Vikings to a measly 120 ground yards at 3.5 per carry

Love was obviously a little gimpy and couldn’t put ideal velocity on many passes. I believe that led to several throws arriving a hair late and also a smidge off ideal target. Overall Love did do ok and gave us a chance to win.

After watching us bounce back, I’m optimistic we can overcome some of these deficiencies and clean up our game as the season progresses. Love looked like Brett Favre out there today. He left it all on the field and was really several catchable but dropped passes and 1 INT from otherwise having a good day.

 

[milani]

To me MLF deserves a freaking A for the second half, D- for the first half and a C or C- as a whole. Just how it felt for me.

3rd quarter was more of a C. 4th quarter better. We forced turnovers but made some more ourselves.

 

[OldSchool101]

I’m not sure what defines a C grade. But this was a rollercoaster ride.
I’m going with a C grade coaching
We are going to need to even out the porpoise ups n downs. I would give Matt a C+ but he HAS to get the penalty count down to normal or below.

Got out of control early, but we willed our way back into respectable. The play calling wasn’t that bad, the execution is where we faltered more. It’s not Matt’s fault we dropped like 5+ Catchable balls and found a way to miss like 5+ more passes due to poor ball placement. I’ve never seen so many passes that were close, but a hair late or a hair off the mark or hit the target but were drops. I think we literally went 0/10 on drops that were catchable passes. In a normal day you catch 4-6 of those 10 so it was almost irritating how it unfolded

 

[XPack]

I still believe they have caught teams at the right time also, which has aided their perfect record.

Yeah. Love will get better and it's a matter of time when Darnold get back to his usual tricks.

 

[milani]

I’m not sure what defines a C grade. But this was a rollercoaster ride.
I’m going with a C grade coaching
We are going to need to even out the porpoise ups n downs. I would give Matt a C+ but he HAS to get the penalty count down to normal or below.

Got out of control early, but we willed our way back into respectable. The play calling wasn’t that bad, the execution is where we faltered more. It’s not Matt’s fault we dropped like 5+ Catchable balls and found a way to miss like 5+ more passes due to poor ball placement. I’ve never seen so many passes that were close, but a hair late or a hair off the mark or hit the target but were drops. I think we literally went 0/10 on drops that were catchable passes. In a normal day you catch 4-6 of those 10 so it was almost irritating how it unfolded

Maybe the last 2 weeks with so few passes thrown and a different QB dismantled the chemistry. Obviously, the game plan and opponent was very different. What stands out are two iotas: We are still the youngest team in the NFL and perform sporadically in the spotlight rather than consistently. But what is consistent is that our kicker is not dependable. Not even close to the caliber we have seen in the rest of the league through 4 weeks. Even last week he missed another that was taken off the board because of a silly Titan penalty. In today's game the quality of the kicking game must be better.

 

[OOMPA Tailgate]

For the past - I despised the coach - But that turned around in this last game. He showed fire and a schmige (sp?) of Ditka. Mr Matt ; you have a fan in me. This game was the best learning loss for the team in a long long time

 

[Krabs]

This one is difficult. I would have to go with a C. I'm not going to go so far as to say that the coaching stunk in this game. I think a lot of it had to do with mistakes from the players. You can say that it is a reflection in coaching and some of it probably is. However, Love was off with his throws, which led to a lot of drops, which led to more and longer possessions for MN. I don't think any gameplan going into this game was to turn the ball over that many times and miss FGs. Blame whomever you want, but this is not all on the coaching. I would actually say that a lot of it is not on MLF.

Now, I'm also not going to start banging the drum for Hafley to get fired. That's not my message here. What I would say is that Hafley gets a solid D for his first half gameplan. Darnold had all day to sit back and pick the Packers apart. I was oddly reminiscent of a Barry led defense last year. Zero pressure on the QB. In the 2nd half when the game had gotten a bit out of control they had to go to it. Once they did they started seeing some successes. Alas, it was too late.

 

[Magooch]

Now, I'm also not going to start banging the drum for Hafley to get fired. That's not my message here. What I would say is that Hafley gets a solid D for his first half gameplan. Darnold had all day to sit back and pick the Packers apart. I was oddly reminiscent of a Barry led defense last year. Zero pressure on the QB. In the 2nd half when the game had gotten a bit out of control they had to go to it. Once they did they started seeing some successes. Alas, it was too late.

Equally concerning to me in this regard is that it felt like the only time we were really able to buckle down on defense was in the second half when Minnesota had clearly let off the gas a bit and were trying to work the clock some more. As soon as they felt a bit of pressure and needed to move the ball again, for the most part they were able to again do so at will.

 

[milani]

Will try to do one every week.

Week 1 - D

Team looked woefully under prepared. Play calling wasn't convincing and overall quite sloppy. Going in with a random new QB and K wasn't ideal and we'll see how good that turn out to be.

Overall, a disappointment as this is way below his ability as a coach.

O'Connell had him beat from the get go.

 

[Krabs]

Equally concerning to me in this regard is that it felt like the only time we were really able to buckle down on defense was in the second half when Minnesota had clearly let off the gas a bit and were trying to work the clock some more. As soon as they felt a bit of pressure and needed to move the ball again, for the most part they were able to again do so at will.

I don't disagree. Some might have been due to how long the defense had been on the field. Regardless, that is accurate. When we needed a stop to keep it within one score it didn't happen.

 

[OldSchool101]

I’m not sure, but it feels like we are missing that dominant, game changing DLineman. What is up with Gary? Hes just almost disappeared and he was many people’s favorite to be our Packer DPOY. Is he hurt or something? He looks like he’s going backwards and we needed him here.

Kenny seems to be just playing a support cast. He's not bad or anything like that. He’s was just very average to almost negligible as a difference maker. Someone needed to step up and it took a DB to race in to get a Sack. Maybe we needed more DB Blitz calls. I know TJ is a block eater, but we are missing that 1 interior disruptive. Wyatt is our closest thing but he might be missing sometime idk

 

[Krabs]

I’m not sure, but it feels like we are missing that dominant, game changing DLineman. What is up with Gary? Hes just almost disappeared and he was many people’s favorite to be our Packer DPOY. Is he hurt or something? He looks like he’s going backwards and we needed him here.

Agreed, just made similar comments in studs and duds. Guess where I put him.

Kenny seems to be just playing a support cast. He's not bad or anything like that. He’s was just very average to almost negligible as a difference maker. Someone needed to step up and it took a DB to race in to get a Sack. Maybe we needed more DB Blitz calls. I know TJ is a block eater, but we are missing that 1 interior disruptive. Wyatt is our closest thing but he might be missing sometime idk

Totally agree on this as well. Wyatt seemed to be overpassing Clark and we pay that dude a lot. At this point he seems like just a dude. We need more out of him especially with Wyatt being carted off. Hope it is not too bad of an injury.

 

[Magooch]

I’m not sure, but it feels like we are missing that dominant, game changing DLineman. What is up with Gary? Hes just almost disappeared and he was many people’s favorite to be our Packer DPOY. Is he hurt or something? He looks like he’s going backwards and we needed him here.

Kenny seems to be just playing a support cast. He's not bad or anything like that. He’s was just very average to almost negligible as a difference maker. Someone needed to step up and it took a DB to race in to get a Sack. Maybe we needed more DB Blitz calls. I know TJ is a block eater, but we are missing that 1 interior disruptive. Wyatt is our closest thing but he might be missing sometime idk

Getting OT for this thread in particular but I've been wondering the same. For all the investment (cash/draft capital) put into our defense and particularly the front seven it seems we aren't getting an adequate return. And that's after multiple coordinator changes too. Makes me wonder if there doesn't need to be some sort of fundamental change to the way we scout/target and sign defenders. What exactly that is, I don't know, but that seems to be about the only variable here we haven't tried changing - we have our "profile" that we want to draft and tend to stick within those lines.

 

[GBkrzygrl]

Week 4: vs Vikings

Another scratchy coaching outing for MLF. The game plan looked to be for a prime in-form Love, rather than one playing his first game back from injury. (Over) Ambitious and backfired quick. Easy to blame Narveson, but problems are more deeper than that. Very mixed gameplan that neither never really utilized either the pass nor run game well till HT.

The problems with adapting to a moving game seems to be MLFs weakness. If his gameplan doesn't work, he just takes too long to make adjustments, rather preferring to push through hoping it clicks later on. We should have had far more runs and short/screen passing and gradually ease Love in. It worked well with Willis so not reason it won't work well with Love at least till Q2.

Coach rating: C-

Sidenote: Despite the loss, this actually boosts my confidence on Love especially in adverse game like this. We can always come back as long as he's in there. Had this with Aaron & Brett and now getting the same vibe with JL.

One of the things that helped the Packers win the last 2 weeks was sticking to the gameplan by persisting with the run game. I felt like ML was nervous and that transferred to the team. He wasn't confident and neither was the team. Love seemed more relaxed or confident in the 2nd half and began to trust his knee more. But the whole team seemed off from the get-go.

 

[RicFlairoftheNFL]

I can't give LaFleur a bad grade for yesterday, It wasn't coaching, it wasn't strategy, it wasn't play calling....it was execution in a lot of areas, and that's on the guys with their names on the backs of jerseys. I'm gonna say B for this week.

 

[tynimiller]

I can't give LaFleur a bad grade for yesterday, It wasn't coaching, it wasn't strategy, it wasn't play calling....it was execution in a lot of areas, and that's on the guys with their names on the backs of jerseys. I'm gonna say B for this week.

I’ve now watched the game three full All22 times and I concur.

You cannot give him an A due to loss and your team executing is a small factor of coaching but a coach cannot control execution really - only preparation.

 

[gopkrs]

I’m not sure, but it feels like we are missing that dominant, game changing DLineman. What is up with Gary? Hes just almost disappeared and he was many people’s favorite to be our Packer DPOY. Is he hurt or something? He looks like he’s going backwards and we needed him here.

Correct me if I'm wrong but I only see a bull rush from Gary. You can't get to the QB very often if you don't have any more moves than that. Unless you are up against a lousy OT.

 

[RicFlairoftheNFL]

Correct me if I'm wrong but I only see a bull rush from Gary. You can't get to the QB very often if you don't have any more moves than that. Unless you are up against a lousy OT.

The interior O-Line is a dumpster fire that puked up a **** show.

 

[Magooch]

Correct me if I'm wrong but I only see a bull rush from Gary. You can't get to the QB very often if you don't have any more moves than that. Unless you are up against a lousy OT.

Just saw today that GB has the lowest pass rush win rate in the league thus far this season and Gary himself is at a paltry 3% (THREE) win rate....