3 Packers most to blame for horrible season so far

Packers that deserve the most blame: 1. Matt LaFleur

While the players themselves have been underperforming, the overall coaching job that LaFleur and his staff have done has been poor. Rodgers was openly critical of LaFleur’s offensive scheme, claiming that it needed to be simplified with so many young players trying to learn a complex system on the fly.

LaFleur has been operating the Packers as if he still has Adams on the outside, which is not a good way to coach since Green Bay no longer has an elite receiver for Rodgers to work with. The strength of Green Bay should be its running game but the Packers often abandon the run early, relying on Rodgers to make magic happen even when it isn’t necessary.

This is the first real moment of adversity for LaFleur, who hadn’t lost consecutive games as Green Bay’s head coach over his first three seasons. Good coaches find a way to rally their teams out of funks and LaFleur still has plenty of talent at his disposal to make a postseason run in the NFC.

The fact that Green Bay has squandered games against the Giants, Jets and Commanders will make LaFleur’s job much harder. If those three games end up costing the Packers the playoffs, LaFleur will enter 2023 on a very hot seat as the architect of this disaster.