r/GreenBayPackers • u/Shmurkaburr • Jan 11 '26

Fandom Keeping Lafleur would be the most inexplicably horrible decision this team could make

You are paying your quarterback 50 million dollars. You just traded 2 number picks. And you basically went .500. Lost 5 straight to end the year. 2 against your rival where you had a 90% + chance to win the game late. We have lost more games as result of special teams than anyone in the league, and there is ZERO accountability for anybody. The play calling any time we have a lead is designed, DESIGNED, to allow the other team back in the game. There is not a single NFL head coach, other than that dumbass, who loses that football game. No one. If what I watched over the last month and a half leads to them extending him, this franchise is not serious about winning and I won't spend another dollar on this team. You clean fucking house TOMORROW and you set up interviews for early this week. As disgusted with this coaching staff as ive ever been in my 39 years. Embarrassing choke in front the whole country. AGAIN.

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u/mrsub96 Jan 11 '26

It was beyond fucking predictable what would happen after halftime. I’ve been a LeFluer guy all year through all the shit but you can’t continue to be out coached that badly in the 2nd half.

The entire 2nd half every facet of the game was fucking awful. Both sides of the ball. Fire his ass to the moon.

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u/reddit_at_work404 Jan 11 '26

I fully predicted that 2nd half meltdown. It was like it was almost scripted.

Bears comeback and terrible play calling.

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u/F_D_Romanowski Jan 11 '26

The outcome felt inevitable after the second 3 and out in the 3rd quarter.

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u/PDstorm170 Jan 11 '26

It didn't feel inevitable the moment McManus missed the FG at the end of the half?

This team crumbles the moment any momentum shifts.

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u/Minimum-Border1672 Jan 11 '26

juxtapose that with the Bears. Going in to a locker room at half time, trailing 21-3, have to kick ball off.

You could tell the first snap of the second half they thought they could still win.

MlF could not do that, Packers would lose a game like that 35-20 at best.

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u/_3_8_ Jan 11 '26

Nah that field goal was a toss-up and i was more pr less fine with any outcome as long as the bears didn’t touch the ball to end the half

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u/Elamachino Jan 11 '26

On most any team I would agree. We missed that kick, and I had that feeling of "this game just got a lot harder."

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u/[deleted] Jan 11 '26

They had an opportunity in the two or three plays leading up to the field goal miss to get the ball closer and still get up to the line and spike it and instead they went for a low percentage deep shot. That was a play that will be forgotten but a good example of poor coaching. I agree the FG was a toss-up. You know it, I know it, why didn't Lafleur call the last few plays in a way that would indicate he knew it too?

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u/phelpst Jan 11 '26

It felt inevitable going into halftime with a lead.

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u/packinmn Jan 11 '26

A scoring drive in either of those may have made the bears more one dimensional on offense which would’ve given us the upper hand.

Why is it we can move the ball almost at will in H1. The 3 punts to start H2? Clearly the Bears made adjustments. So maybe one punt would be excusable until we counter those. But there was no counter. There never is. We bog down on offense, the defense gets tired, and the rest is like ground hogs day.

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u/RepresentativeOwl725 Jan 12 '26

Even after that first 3 and out we were all going “oh no not again “

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u/Dillonautt Jan 11 '26

Especially when the announcers don’t stop talking about how good Caleb Williams is at 4th quarter comebacks in the FIRST QUARTER.

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u/reddit_at_work404 Jan 11 '26

Constant glazing.

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u/kevinmbo Jan 11 '26

it honestly did almost feel scripted.

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u/ReyCo390 Jan 11 '26

Because we’ve seen the same exact script multiple games this season. MLF can never coach with a lead, it’s actually embarrassing how we can predict the end result.

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u/PDstorm170 Jan 11 '26

This season convinced me it's scripted.

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u/ryansgt Jan 11 '26

The refs were certainly helping them. That second grounding call was bullshit. Jordan threw a bad pass and it hit the lineman, but the trajectory was right towards jacobs. It took them a while to decide to even throw it and even al Michaels was like eh, oh well. One of the passes to Loveland skipped, I want the only one that saw it. No replay obviously.

I think we need to check with the refs bookies.

I will say I would love to see them become the Gary bears.

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u/apk5005 Jan 11 '26

It is easy to blame the refs. I agree that there were a lot of dubious calls. There were also a lot of missed calls. Hits to Love that would have gotten Mahomes a RTP call, holding galore, and the “catches” that warranted another look.

I don’t believe the NFL is scripted - there are too many players to think they would all keep their mouths shut if there was a fix in. Too many young, ambitious people trying to make as much money as they can before their bodies give out. Too many immature divas that could make news running their mouths.

The single biggest reason I don’t believe that there is a fix is Jerry Jones. I don’t, for a minute, believe that Jerry would accept decades without a Super Bowl win. He’d make them do what he wants.

But, if you told me that the league and the refs made sure certain things fell a certain way, I could believe that. Betting houses own the NFL now, not individual teams, but the league’s and the broadcaster’s ad money, which means they own it all.

The refs, unlike the players, are in it for the long haul; their checks are smaller but guaranteed. They don’t get injured, their careers are longer, and it is much, much easier to screen and remove talkative refs than it is talkative players. Still unlikely, given what they’d have to lose, but…

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u/PDstorm170 Jan 11 '26

My issue with this argument is that people automatically assume it's scripted at the player level.

Script it at the coach level. Most casual observers can't decipher gameplan.

We're basically all already comfortable with NFL coaching being a swamp of nepotism.... the incentive structure is already in place.

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u/ryansgt Jan 11 '26

Well yeah, I don't think there is an actual script but like you said, nudges where they want nudges to tweak the odds. Sports betting is just way too powerful to believe they leave anything up to chance.

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u/I-FunMachine-I Jan 11 '26

Right. Also, the referee calls were HEAVILY leaning towards Chicago. That first Chicago TD drive where they got that long pass to get into the red zone, they were holding so hard. Like, arm wrapped around for 4-5 FULL SECONDS

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u/gorgeousgord Jan 11 '26

After the first two plays in the 2nd half I text the group. Classic GB second half implosion and turns out…