2024 Weekly Report Card: Matt LaFleur

[OldSchool101]

Interesting recent acquisition. Luke Getsy was recently rehired by the Packers as a “Defensive Consultant”
You might recall Luke was Rodgers QB’s Coach in 2019
and eventually our QB Coach/Passing Game Coordinator in 2020-2021.

Luke Getsy left GB to take tours as an OC with the:
Chicaco Bears 2022-2023
Las Vegas Raiders 2024

 

[milani]

Interesting recent acquisition. Luke Getsy was recently rehired by the Packers as a “Defensive Consultant”
You might recall Luke was Rodgers QB’s Coach in 2019
and eventually our QB Coach/Passing Game Coordinator in 2020-2021.

Luke Getsy left GB to take tours as an OC with the:
Chicaco Bears 2022-2023
Las Vegas Raiders 2024

He Gets it. Now we get him.

 

[Heyjoe4]

He Gets it. Now we get him.

Getsy's name is familiar but I wasn't aware of his recent history. He sounds like one of those guys who got promoted one level too high, in this case to coordinator. Sounds like they are using him as a defensive consultant the same way they did with Saleh.

 

[OldSchool101]

Hopefully Getsy sheds some light on why we have been unsuccessful earlier in games. Then help put a plan in place to overcome that trend.

 

[Magooch]

McCarthy 2.0

Loss is 99% on him today honestly. What a crummy time to have one of the worst coaching outings of your career.

 

[Team Ronny]

The last 2 games have been flops! Sleepwalking thru the first half on offense. Poor coverage and tackling on sts and that end of game defense..not to mention poor coaching.

 

[DoURant]

McCarthy 2.0

Loss is 99% on him today honestly. What a crummy time to have one of the worst coaching outings of your career.

Especially after telling the team you wanted a mistake free game.

 

[Sunshinepacker]

McCarthy 2.0

Loss is 99% on him today honestly. What a crummy time to have one of the worst coaching outings of your career.

Not totally sure how a punt return TD, Love and Watson getting hurt, and a fumble by the running back deep in Bears' territory is 99% him. Obviously, he deserves some blame but I'm not sure why you think the actual players or just simple bad injury luck have no bearing on the outcome of this game.

 

[OldSchool101]

Not totally sure how a punt return TD, Love and Watson getting hurt, and a fumble by the running back deep in Bears' territory is 99% him. Obviously, he deserves some blame but I'm not sure why you think the actual players or just simple bad injury luck have no bearing on the outcome of this game.

That was probably the biggest concern. Looks like we just lost one of our 2 best WR’s for the season.

Mist don’t think about we played without Watson, Doubs. That’s 2 of our top 3 WR.
Then only played Love, Jacobs and Musgrave for less than 18 of a 60 minute contest.

KC played without their Starters and they lost 0-38. We lost in a fumble and punt Return and a walk-off FG
Big difference. Much of Our Bench played their 1st string for 3 Quarters and still had the lead with :02 sec

 

[Magooch]

Not totally sure how a punt return TD, Love and Watson getting hurt, and a fumble by the running back deep in Bears' territory is 99% him. Obviously, he deserves some blame but I'm not sure why you think the actual players or just simple bad injury luck have no bearing on the outcome of this game.

Because in spite of all that I'm *extremely* confident that we win that game if he doesn't catastrophically mismanage the final ~two minutes or so. The Bears tried their hardest to gift-wrap that game to us and we managed to turn around and give it right back. Situational awareness was borderline nonexistent for the last few minutes.

KC played without their Starters and they lost 0-38. We lost in a fumble and punt Return and a walk-off FG
Big difference. Much of Our Bench played their 1st string for 3 Quarters and still had the lead with :02 sec

I mean, you know this is a false equivalency, right? Look at who the Chiefs played/rested and who we had out there. It wasn't even "play a bit and rest," half their starters didn't even dress to begin with. Most fans wouldn't even recognize 3/4ths of the players they had out there today. These two situations were not even comparable lol

 

[Sunshinepacker]

Because in spite of all that I'm *extremely* confident that we win that game if he doesn't catastrophically mismanage the final ~two minutes or so. The Bears tried their hardest to gift-wrap that game to us and we managed to turn around and give it right back. Situational awareness was borderline nonexistent for the last few minutes.

Even if true, two minutes accounts for about 3% of the game. If you’re going to blame him for 99%, then he’d have needed to screw up about 59 minutes and 20 seconds of the game.

 

[Magooch]

Even if true, two minutes accounts for about 3% of the game. If you’re going to blame him for 99%, then he’d have needed to screw up about 59 minutes and 20 seconds of the game.

Yeah, I mean I guess in the most pedantic interpretation possible that’d be correct. Although on second thought if we really want to be precise we’d also have to assume he did absolutely nothing wrong for the prior 58 minutes for that to be accurate.

I suppose then by that measure when Karl Brooks blocked the Bears’ field goal with 0:03 on the clock he only deserves credit for 0.08% of that win. The more you know!

 

[Schultz]

Because in spite of all that I'm *extremely* confident that we win that game if he doesn't catastrophically mismanage the final ~two minutes or so. The Bears tried their hardest to gift-wrap that game to us and we managed to turn around and give it right back. Situational awareness was borderline nonexistent for the last few minutes.

I mean, you know this is a false equivalency, right? Look at who the Chiefs played/rested and who we had out there. It wasn't even "play a bit and rest," half their starters didn't even dress to begin with. Most fans wouldn't even recognize 3/4ths of the players they had out there today. These two situations were not even comparable lol

Why in the world do they snap the ball so soon on the 3rd down loss of yards running play before the 55 yard FG. Just plain terrible clock management.

 

[Magooch]

Why in the world do they snap the ball so soon on the 3rd down loss of yards running play before the 55 yard FG. Just plain terrible clock management.

That is (in part) what I am referring to. Just defies all logic. I know we can say this game didn’t matter (and in some ways it didn’t, sure) but LaFleur CLEARLY wanted to win it and made that decision?? I can’t comprehend it

 

[milani]

That is (in part) what I am referring to. Just defies all logic. I know we can say this game didn’t matter (and in some ways it didn’t, sure) but LaFleur CLEARLY wanted to win it and made that decision?? I can’t comprehend it

MLF admitted his error. If he calls a timeout he should wait and run it down. I think a lot was going through his head like should I go for it. Nevertheless, McManus..Thank you. We should have got the first down on 3rd and short and then ran some more plays.

 

[adambr2]

Elephant in the room:

Matt Lafleur is really, really bad at managing an NFL game clock. Today was not the first time.

I don’t know if he doesn’t realize that he is, or just doesn’t think it’s that important.

I don’t know what he needs to do to get better at it. I don’t know if he needs help with it. But this is absolutely a situation where he needs to acknowledge that this is a problem and do something about it.

You can’t just say “that’s on me” and do nothing differently and fly by the seat of your pants again week after week. Yes, it’s on you. Yes, you need to do something about it.

 

[gopkrs]

I guess blame has to go to defensive play calling. Pitiful. We play good d most of the game and suddenly play off and with no pressure. Good thinking

 

[adambr2]

MLF admitted his error. If he calls a timeout he should wait and run it down. I think a lot was going through his head like should I go for it. Nevertheless, McManus..Thank you. We should have got the first down on 3rd and short and then ran some more plays.

Admitting your errors is great.

Admitting your errors and actually doing something to avoid those errors in the future is better.

“Should I go for it” should have already been known as soon as the whistle was blown.

“What yardline do we need to be at to try a FG on the next play if we don’t convert this” should have been the question on his mind, and he should have had the answer in his mind ready to go.

 

[milani]

I guess blame has to go to defensive play calling. Pitiful. We play good d most of the game and suddenly play off and with no pressure. Good thinking

The Bears have little of an offense to stop as it is. Our D had chances to stop Detroit, Minny, and Chicago on final drives and we could not.

 

[Heyjoe4]

Not totally sure how a punt return TD, Love and Watson getting hurt, and a fumble by the running back deep in Bears' territory is 99% him. Obviously, he deserves some blame but I'm not sure why you think the actual players or just simple bad injury luck have no bearing on the outcome of this game.

It was a loss that involved the whole team. Everyone is culpable for that disaster, and disaster is being too kind.

 

[Heyjoe4]

Elephant in the room:

Matt Lafleur is really, really bad at managing an NFL game clock. Today was not the first time.

I don’t know if he doesn’t realize that he is, or just doesn’t think it’s that important.

I don’t know what he needs to do to get better at it. I don’t know if he needs help with it. But this is absolutely a situation where he needs to acknowledge that this is a problem and do something about it.

You can’t just say “that’s on me” and do nothing differently and fly by the seat of your pants again week after week. Yes, it’s on you. Yes, you need to do something about it.

FWIW MLF should be managing the entire game, not just the offense. I'm not happy with HCs calling plays. And it's the way I've felt all along. Yesterday was just another good (bad) example of a distracted HC.

 

[adambr2]

FWIW MLF should be managing the entire game, not just the offense. I'm not happy with HCs calling plays. And it's the way I've felt all along. Yesterday was just another good (bad) example of a distracted HC.

I don’t expect any HC to be perfect. What I do expect is him to learn from his mistakes and correct them.

I don’t know that he has shown that he does. We see the same mistakes repeated over and over again. He’s just wrapping up his 6th NFL season as an HC. He should have some grasp of clock management by now and some ability by now to think on the fly.

His saving grace yesterday was that the game was ultimately meaningless. Can you imagine if he had called a timeout next week in that same situation and given Hurts and Philly that extra time to drive down the field and win the game?

If I had full confidence that he’ll never repeat something like this again, I could easily write this off as a meaningless blip on the radar. I don’t.

 

[Heyjoe4]

I don’t expect any HC to be perfect. What I do expect is him to learn from his mistakes and correct them.

I don’t know that he has shown that he does. We see the same mistakes repeated over and over again. He’s just wrapping up his 6th NFL season as an HC. He should have some grasp of clock management by now and some ability by now to think on the fly.

His saving grace yesterday was that the game was ultimately meaningless. Can you imagine if he had called a timeout next week in that same situation and given Hurts and Philly that extra time to drive down the field and win the game?

If I had full confidence that he’ll never repeat something like this again, I could easily write this off as a meaningless blip on the radar. I don’t.

Well put and I agree. He frequently burns at least one TO each half as well. The team should be practicing clock management and that includes MLF. The last few weeks have been ok on that front, but I agree that the costly TO management yesterday is an example of an ongoing problem. And you're right, after six years he should have this down.

 

[GBkrzygrl]

IMO ML runs hot and cold. Sometimes he calls a great game and other times a real stinker. It's like he never watched any film on Chicago. But the biggest surprise was Hafley's choice for play call on the last play of the game. In fact his game plan wasn't so great either.

Sorry Gang but this team and coaches are not ready for the playoffs.

 

[OOMPA Tailgate]

Horse collar tackle penalty - true
Horse collar tackle - horse poop