3 Packers that deserve the most blame for loss to Lions

The Packers season continued to get worse with a loss to the Lions on Sunday afternoon

The Green Bay Packers fell to 3-6 and handed the Detroit Lions just their second win of the season in Week 9. It didn’t ever look particularly close, but in games like this you always feel like the better team has to prevail.

Not the case in this one. Unless, perhaps, the Lions really are the better team?

The travesty of a season for the Packers rolls on, and they continue to have zero answers for the nightmare they’re putting fans through. Following an inactive trade deadline, it doesn’t feel like there are all that many options to get the team out of the hole they’re in.

To make matters worse, there are injury issues brewing:

Here are the three (well, really, four) Packers that deserve the most blame.

Packers that deserve the most blame: Matt LaFleur and Brian Gutekunst

We know you’re most interested in players that deserve the blame, so we’ll go ahead and lump LaFleur and Gutekunst into one entity here. Both of these non-players are certainly at fault for the loss on Sunday, and there’s a case to be made that they deserve even more blame than the rest of the lot.

Earlier this week, Brian Gutekunst failed to get even a single move done. No receiver help for Aaron Rodgers and the offense, nothing at all that added value or talent.

And for LaFleur, well, there are holes all over his game planning, but one area that continues to be such a sore spot is his resistance to running the ball. This has been an issue all year. Aaron Rodgers was the leading rusher on Sunday and he continued to give Aaron Jones hardly any chances to use his legs.

Jones did leave the game with an injury, but it was before that that LaFleur continued to not use him, even in goal-line situations.

What is the case for not giving him some more attempts? It’s like LaFleur wants to get fired.