GREEN BAY, Wis. — Hopefully, everyone has caught up on sleep by now after staying up past your bedtimes to watch two professional football teams tie.
I haven’t, but this mailbag is powered by grit and determination.
Let’s dive in.
Note: Submitted questions have been edited for clarity and length.
Why is this team so disorganized and sloppy every year, regardless of the changing players? What gives? — Jerry S.
Teams are always going to make mistakes — it’s the NFL — but I asked Matt LaFleur on Sunday night basically whether it was discouraging seeing this sloppiness still show up in Year 3 of this era of the Green Bay Packers. They’re still young, but general manager Brian Gutekunst has touted that youth’s experience. It’s more a feeling watching the team, like I’m assuming you’re going off, rather than any concrete sloppiness analytics. LaFleur wasn’t necessarily buying where I was going.
“I mean, every year’s a new situation,” he said. “You got a lot of new players out there, so it’s never the same. I think any time mistakes happen, it’s disappointing, whether it’s Year 3 with your group of guys or you got a rookie in there. It really doesn’t matter at the end of the day, because nobody cares. Bottom line is you gotta get it right.”
As Micah Parsons said, taking ownership of mistakes only goes so far. The Packers must do something about it.
Would you fire Rich Bisaccia? This is now four years running of terrible special teams play. — Brad G.
This is the hot topic on the Green Bay streets right now. Perhaps the best measure for special teams success is Rick Gosselin’s annual rankings. The Packers finished 22nd and 29th in them in 2022 and 2023, Bisaccia’s first two seasons in charge of Green Bay’s special teams. Gosselin stopped ranking special teams groups last season, but the Packers ranked 15th in special teams DVOA last season, according to For the Numbers’ Aaron Schatz. This year, specifically the last three games, Bisaccia’s special teams have been underwhelming because of penalties, two critical kicks blocked, several explosive returns allowed and questionable kick return strategy. I’m not going to call for his job in this mailbag, but I don’t blame fans who are leaning that way.
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If you’re Ed Policy, do you extend MLF? — Matthew P.
I received a couple of questions about LaFleur’s job status, so I’ll tackle them in one answer here. If I were Policy and had to make a decision tomorrow, yes, I would extend LaFleur. Think of it like this. If the Packers fired LaFleur, how many teams would take him over their current head coach? The answer is probably a lot. That, in part, should tell the Packers not to fire him. Now, there’s plenty of season left. If the Packers play the last three quarters of the season like they have the first quarter (wildly inconsistently), sneak into the playoffs and bow out early in Year 3 of the Jordan Love era, is it possible Policy doesn’t think LaFleur is the guy to take the Packers from good to great? Sure. I would be surprised, but it’s possible. For now, though, I don’t think there is any legitimate reason to consider moving on. LaFleur certainly has his flaws — dissecting his overall resume could be a whole other feature that I’ll maybe do at a later date — but he’s a well-above-average football coach.
What do you expect the offensive line to look like coming out of the bye? Will there be more shuffling of positions, and is the unit expected to come back to some level of decent health? — Peter H.
I don’t know the exact return timelines for Zach Tom, Aaron Banks and Anthony Belton, but what the Packers got Sunday from their offensive line wasn’t good enough. Sure, Love lit it up, but according to PFF, left tackle Rasheed Walker and right tackle Darrian Kinnard each allowed five pressures, and left guard Jordan Morgan and right guard Sean Rhyan each allowed four (center Elgton Jenkins allowed none). Add in more penalties for Kinnard, Morgan and Rhyan, and the Packers could certainly use Tom and Banks back in the lineup. The Dallas Cowboys ranked 26th in pressure percentage through three weeks (29.6) and Sunday, pressured Love on 16 of 43 dropbacks, according to TruMedia. That 37.2 pressure percentage would’ve ranked sixth last season in team pressure percentage. Love completed only six passes for 47 yards on those 16 attempts.
Is it time to start getting alarmed with the run game production and Josh Jacobs? When is it time to start sounding the alarm bells? — John K.
John Kuhn, is that you? I’m a little surprised this question comes after what they did on the ground against the Cowboys. The Packers didn’t start well at all on the ground, but Jacobs and Emanuel Wilson each ripped off a couple of productive runs, and the Packers finished with 35 carries for 164 yards (4.7 yards per carry). In the first three games, the Packers ran 25 times for 3.1 YPC, 30 times for 4.5 YPC and 31 times for 2.6 YPC. Statistically, Sunday night was their best performance of the season running the ball, coinciding with what Jacobs said about the running game taking a couple of weeks to get fully in sync and firing off the ball.
Saw a post where MLF referred to problems in the locker room, and if things don’t change, things could spiral and the season could be lost. Any truth to this, and what are you hearing? — Danny C.
That was a fake quote graphic made by Lord knows who. Please, I beg of you, listen to and follow the real reporters who go to all the games, home and away, and talk to players and coaches daily.
What’s the status of Devonte Wyatt’s injury? — R.H.
It’s never good when you’re ruled out with a knee injury, but we don’t know the extent of it just yet. LaFleur talks at 2 p.m. CT Tuesday this week since they got back to Green Bay early Monday morning. Parsons said Sunday in a comment about Wyatt’s value to the team that Wyatt told him he’s going to get healthy and added, “Hopefully, we get him back soon.”
“We missing D-Wy, like just that depth, that dominant player that he is,” Parsons said of the defensive drop-off against the Cowboys. “His energy is so contagious. I think he’s underlooked in his value on this team … you lose a great player like that, it kind of stings.”
Jordan Love is in his third year as a starter and continues to make two random, poor decisions with the football. 0 or 00 comes up on every roulette wheel. — Chip S.
Love just completed 31 of 43 passes for 337 yards and three touchdowns while the offense helped score 40 points. And we’re complaining about quarterback play? You should know by now that there might be a couple of dicey moments every game from Love. That’s how he plays. The Packers don’t want to scale back his aggressiveness because it helps them more than it hurts them. You can nit-pick a lot from that game, but his play isn’t anywhere near the top of that list.
Do you think that playing four different times with short and long weeks for each of the first four fixtures has had an impact on the rhythm and consistency of the Packers so far? — Sam R.
I doubt it, and it shouldn’t. The best teams find a way to overcome that stuff, so it’s not an excuse or even justification. They dominated on a short week against the Washington Commanders and lost on a long week against the Cleveland Browns. There’s no real rhyme or reason to it other than anything can happen in any given game in this league.
Why is it always something different for the Packers? One week it’s the offense, another our defense is atrocious. Going into this season, Green Bay was considered a Super Bowl-contending team, but do you think that they are too inconsistent to make it far in the playoffs? — Ez28756
Let’s acknowledge first that they emphatically beat the Lions and Commanders in the first two weeks with sound complementary football. The last two weeks have been a different story, with the offense to blame in Cleveland and the defense to blame in Dallas, plus a sprinkle of special teams blame in both games. I don’t look at the Packers quite as highly as I did two weeks ago, but it’s a long season and narratives can change in the blink of an eye. I’m not ready to make a hard-and-fast declaration about their playoff fate because of the first four weeks.
