Can the Packers Win a Super Bowl With This Coaching Staff?
Packernet Podcast: Daily Green Bay Packers Podcast
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4.7 • 524 Ratings
🗓️ 14 January 2026
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
The numbers don't lie, and Ryan digs deep into the uncomfortable question every Packers fan is asking: should Matt LaFleur remain as head coach? This episode delivers a comprehensive analytical breakdown using coaching philosophy frameworks, statistical evidence, and observable patterns that paint a concerning picture of Green Bay's direction.
Before diving into the coaching analysis, Ryan covers critical injury updates including Zach Tom's partially torn patellar tendon, Devonte Wyatt's broken fibula, Tucker Kraft's rehab progress, and Micah Parsons' emotional recovery comments that raise some red flags. Plus, Mike Tomlin's surprising departure from Pittsburgh after 19 seasons.
The heart of the episode examines LaFleur through a rigorous coaching checklist: player development (or lack thereof), operational cleanliness, timeout management (where LaFleur ranks dead last in unnecessary offensive timeouts), and the team's ability to self-correct. The stats are damning—the Packers lost three games when leading by 10+ points in the final five minutes, more than the previous 54 years combined. LaFleur's overall win percentage has dropped from top-three all-time to 16th, and with Jordan Love as starter, he sits at 53rd.
Ryan examines whether the program is truly self-correcting or simply dependent on perfect conditions to succeed—and the answer isn't encouraging.
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| 0:00.0 | Ladies and gentlemen, welcome once again to the Packernet podcast. |
| 0:12.7 | I am your host and resident fanalyst. |
| 0:14.7 | As always, Ryan Schlipp. |
| 0:16.0 | Check us out online, packernet.com. |
| 0:18.5 | Find me on Twitter pack underscore that app. So we are going to go over some coaching |
| 0:24.6 | stuff. As of this time of recording, there is no news regarding Matt LaFleur. Chargers fired |
| 0:33.3 | offensive coordinator Greg Roman. That's interesting. But we are going to continue the talks about |
| 0:37.8 | coaching, specifically head coaching and a few other things. I want to elaborate on some things to make |
| 0:47.2 | sure that we have all the details right. Obviously, a lot of people have been posting statistics |
| 0:50.9 | and this, that, or the other. I want to continue to zoom in on the Matt LaFleur |
| 0:55.3 | question. As I said, yesterday, that was kind of the plan, but, you know, time was a little |
| 0:59.5 | tight, and I want to make sure I had all my stuff figured out. So I want to kind of go through |
| 1:04.6 | that. And then I want to spend a little bit of time, I guess, investigating the idea of if we keep Matt Lafleur, what is the answer? What |
| 1:14.5 | do we do moving forward? And I said before, I have no idea, and I don't think Matt knows. I don't |
| 1:18.8 | know if anybody knows what the plan is. But I do have a thought. And I want to explore that |
| 1:24.2 | thought a little bit. But before we get started with any of that, for starters, though, |
| 1:30.1 | I want to go through a couple different news and notes items. I'll just kind of go through |
| 1:34.4 | Tom Silverstein's Twitter feed here. Right tackle Zach Tom had a partially torn Pateller |
| 1:40.8 | tendon and tried to come back with a PRP injection, but didn't feel he could pass |
| 1:48.4 | block with it. He'll have surgery soon, and it'll be a six-month recovery. So obviously, |
| 1:55.4 | that'll put him back in time to be able to play. The timing on this stuff is always kind of important. |
| 2:03.7 | Obviously, we've got a pretty long runway here to get guys back in time. So if it's a six-month recovery, then go ahead and |
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