Breaking: LaFleur Reveals Unexpected Packers’ Offense Issue
The Green Bay Packers outgained the Detroit Lions, 411 yards to 261 on Sunday. They had 20 first downs, against 17 from the opponent. Yet, Green Bay lost 24-14 — and it was 24-6 until late in the fourth down. Certainly, Jordan Love‘s pick-six was a part of it. But head coach Matt LaFleur is more concerned about another factor.
The Packers got in the red zone four times throughout the game, but ended up with only one touchdown to show for it.
“You can’t put yourself in a situation where it becomes a game in which you’re throwing it on almost every single down. I don’t think that’s gonna be winning football, especially in these types of elements,” LaFleur evaluated. “We dug ourselves in far too deep of a hole, and we have an opportunity to get there, we don’t convert in the red area. That’s been a problem, obviously. One of four is not good enough. So we gotta take a hard look at that over the course of next week and figure out what we gotta do to get better. When we have opportunities, we’re not making the play, so we gotta really look at it and see what we’re asking our guys to do, just gotta do a better job.”
According to LaFleur, the mistakes by everyone — not only Jordan Love — have been costly to the offense.
“A lot of it stems back to the penalties,” LaFleur added. “I would think that’s a big part of it. We had back-to-back snaps where the ball was snapped on the ground, so that’s another one. We didn’t capitalize on it.”
After all, for Matt LaFleur, the Lions’ ability to avoid negative plays and big mistakes is what made them win the game at Lambeau Field.
“They played a clean game, much cleaner than we did. I was disappointed by the number of penalties, just self-inflicted booms that we had,” LaFleur said. “You can’t do that against a really good football team. When you look at the sequence, in terms of them kicking the points right before the two-minute drive, then we have a pick-six, and then they come out in the second half and score a touchdown, that’s a lot to overcome right there. Obviously, we didn’t do a good enough job to be able to overcome that.”
Mistakes have been a trend throughout the Packers season. Now, they have a week off to evaluate everything and correct what’s possible. Green Bay is 0-2 in the division, two home losses to the Minnesota Vikings and Detroit Lions, so the next game against the Chicago Bears is even more relevant — and mistakes can’t be a part of it.
