Green Bay Packers fans are not happy with head coach Matt LaFleur at the moment.
What at halftime looked to be a statement that an up-and-down regular season was nothing more than a mirage as the Packers dominated the Bears turned into a nightmare by the end of the night. After dropping an 18-point lead to their NFC North rival, with Jordan Love falling to his knees following one of the best games of his career, everything that could go wrong went wrong for LaFleur.
Although LaFleur has been one of the most consistent head coaches in the NFL since taking over in 2019, making the Super Bowl has eluded him and his team.
In the regular season, he is a staggering 76-40-1, the type of leader you’d expect to one day be dining in Canton at the Football Hall of Fame if he continues his trajectory for another decade-plus.
But then you look at the playoffs, where he is now 3-6 for his career. 2025 was supposed to be a turning point for the Packers after meeting expectations and clearing them the previous year, but it wasn’t.
As it’s happened for the Packers since Aaron Rodgers took them to the Super Bowl almost two decades ago and won it all over the Steelers, the Packers were eliminated heartbreakingly.
LaFleur has one year left on his contract with the Packers, but that did not stop reporters from asking him, following the game, if he believes he will return to Green Bay following the historic collapse.
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“With all due respect to your question, now’s not the time for that,” he answered. “I’m hurting for these guys. I can only think about what just happened. And there will be time for that.”
The Packers will now have to watch as the Chicago Bears, a team that has been blown up, rebuilt, blown up, and rebuilt again since LaFleur was named Green Bay head coach, march forward in their own quest to reach the Super Bowl.
If LaFleur were fired, he would join the dismissed John Harbaugh atop every team’s whiteboard that is currently looking for a new head coach.
Chicago will celebrate tomorrow and watch to see if they’ll be playing the Philadelphia Eagles or Los Angeles Rams at home next week in the divisional round.
LaFleur will be picking up the pieces and wondering what needs to change in Green Bay to take that necessary step forward for a franchise stuck one rung below greatness.
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