The Green Bay Packers may be heading to the NFL Playoffs for the second year in a row, but many fans are not feeling optimistic. Green Bay lost their last two regular season games, both to division rivals, and fell to 1-5 against NFC North this season.
What is more, the Packers could have increased their seeding if they had beaten the Minnesota Vikings in Week 17. As it stands, they face the reality of going on the road to play the 14-3 Philadelphia Eagles in the Wild Card Round.
Due to Green Bay’s stumble to the finish line to end the regular season, as well the their irritating tendency to start games slow, many fans have began to wonder if head coach Matt LaFleur might be on the hot seat.
Green Bay Packers Fans Are Not Happy with Matt LaFleur
After the Packers lost to the Chicago Bears in Week 18, fans were livid with LaFleur. Forgotten was the fact that it was first loss to the Bears in his tenure as head coach. The Wild Card matchup with the Eagles, in the minds of many fans, is already lost.
Packers were fingertips away from going 0-6 against the division. Matt LaFleur is a fraud who will never win anything here. Packers should fire him but won’t because he’s a regular season merchant.
Embarrassing team.
— Brooks (@EBrooksUncut) January 5, 2025
1 fluke blocked FG from being 0-6 in our division
Lafleur Has To Go
— Matt (@TragicallyHigh) January 5, 2025
Fire LaFleur. Why would you hike the ball so fast during the field goal kick. Why give the Bears that much time.
— Sam Engelbrecht (@SamEngel56) January 5, 2025
That clock management by Lafleur at the end of that game was a disaster. Should be a fireable offense. Been saying Lafleur is overrated for years. Good coordinator mid head coach
— Greg Landry (@PalmTreeG23) January 6, 2025
Obviously, these fans have also forgotten, or not realized, that LaFleur has now taken the youngest team in the NFL to the postseason two years in a row. This year’s squad is the second-youngest team ever to make the NFL Playoffs.
Only last year’s Packers team was younger.
Former Green Bay Packers Wide Receiver James Jones Does Not Believe Matt LaFleur Should Be Fired
One of Green Bay’s biggest supporters over the years has been one of their former wide receivers, James Jones. Now an NFL analyst, Jones frequently defended the Packers when they made the decision to move on from Aaron Rodgers, his former teammate.
And he is now defending his former team’s head coach:
https://t.co/Uq9qzIW82S pic.twitter.com/x9eqdVvp7X
— James Jones (@89JonesNTAF) January 7, 2025
Jones, who never played for LaFleur, is obviously a big fan of the job that he has done since taking over the Packers.
While it is true that a 1-5 division record and frequent mistakes are less than ideal, the argument can easily be made that LaFleur has taken this team to a higher level quicker than most head coaches could.
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