Matt LaFleur actually said he would kick the field goal again
By John Buhler
Green Bay Packers head coach Matt LaFleur has no regrets taking the ball away from Aaron Rodgers.
With the 2020 NFC Championship Game on the line, Green Bay Packers head coach Matt LaFleur opted to kick a chip-shot field goal with Mason Crosby from 26 yards out. This instead of going on 4th down from the Tampa Bay 8-yard line down eight points. With Aaron Rodgers.
In the moment, it was a terrible idea and it is not getting any better in the days since LaFleur’s boneheaded decision. He is doubling down on his thought process to kick it down eight points at home with minutes left to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers than put the ball in Aaron Rodgers’ hands. He doubted Rodgers’ ability to get him three additional yards, which is absolutely absurd lunacy.
Packers coach Matt LaFleur says if given the same opportunity again, he'd still kick the field goal. pic.twitter.com/wZFCYMxTlV
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2016 Atlanta Falcons Super Bowl 51 stank NEVER leaves you!
Even if the Packers were unable to score a touchdown down eight points on fourth-and-goal to go from the Tampa Bay eight-yard line, nobody was going to question that decision-making process. It would mean LaFleur trusted the presumptive 2020 NFL MVP to go out and make the play of his life. This is a future first-ballot Pro Football Hall of Famer with a dang Super Bowl trip on the line.
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While LaFleur has had great regular-season success in his first two years leading the Packers, his team has come up painfully short in back-to-back NFC Championship Games. People forget that he was Matt Ryan’s quarterbacks coach on the 2016 Atlanta Falcons, the team that infamously blew a 28-3 lead in Super Bowl LI. As sad as it may be, that festering stank never leaves you.
This was an awful decision Cheeseheads will never let LaFleur live down under any circumstance.