GREEN BAY — If the Green Bay Packers do indeed move forward with Matt LaFleur as their head coach — and that continues to appear like that’s the direction it is trending — there will still be changes in the aftermath of the team’s season-ending, gut-wrenching playoff loss to the rival Chicago Bears last Saturday night. 

And no one knows that better than LaFleur.

“I think,” LaFleur said earlier this week, “we have to look at everything.”

What might everything entail? Here are three places LaFleur can start:

• Examining conditioning, training and practice — LaFleur immediately spoke of the team’s barrage of injuries, with ACL tears claiming their best player on each side of the ball — tight end Tucker Kraft on Nov. 2 and defensive end Micah Parsons on Dec. 14 — that derailed the season.

A decade ago, then-head coach Mike McCarthy decided to make drastic changes to the practice schedule, choosing yoga, massages and soft-tissue focused treatments to minimize injuries.

Whether such an approach would have helped this season considering how many of the Packers’ injury problems were caused by contact, LaFleur doesn’t know. But he wants to examine everything.

“From how we train to how we practice, these are conversations that I’ve already had with some of our people just trying to find maybe different ways to do things,” LaFleur said. “But those are all the conversations that are ongoing right now, just taking all the data that we have, comparing to other teams or whatever it may be.

“Certainly this year, we had the injury bug a little bit. Can we do something different to avoid that? Now a lot of those were just unavoidable, like when a guy gets his ankle landed on and breaks his fibula [like Devonte Wyatt]. Or a guy gets cut and kicks Tucker Kraft in the knee. I don’t know if those are necessarily avoidable.

“But from a training standpoint, just making sure that we’re trying to build up our players, so that they can go out there and they can compete at a high level for a long period of time.”

• Staff changes/new ideas — LaFleur has historically been slow to make staff changes, struggling to dismiss special-teams coordinators Shawn Mennenga and Maurice Drayton despite their units’ subpar performances.

But with defensive coordinator Jeff Hafley interviewing for no fewer than six head-coaching opportunities, the inconsistency the Packers showed with LaFleur and offensive coordinator Adam Stenavich on offense and up-and-down performances by the special teams under the supervision of coordinator Rich Bisaccia, it’s not out of the realm of possibility that LaFleur will be replacing all three of his coordinators this offseason.

But more importantly, the Packers might benefit from some fresh ideas, especially on offense where the staff has been largely unchanged since LaFleur arrived. Offensive line coach Luke Butkus could pay the price for the line’s uneven play, and this offseason could bring opportunities to bring in coaches with differing, outside-of-Titletown concepts and wrinkles.

“I think you’re always trying to evaluate and making sure that you’re putting your players in position to make plays. And ultimately it’s going to come down to that,” LaFleur said. “These games are tight, the margins are small. And when you have those opportunities, you’ve got to take advantage of them. And unfortunately for us, [we haven’t]. You always look and see when it gets tight, if a guy makes a mistake, why are we making a mistake? And so those are constantly at the forefront of our mind.”

There’s also the matter of the Packers’ inconsistent execution, a catch-all criticism that could be a function of how concepts and plays are taught by the coaches, or simply players not focusing on the details of their jobs.

“It’s going to sound cliché, but I think it’s just the execution. There were some things that we did up front there in the [playoff] game that … just can’t make those mistakes in a playoff game,” injured right tackle Zach Tom said. “Part of that falls on me, that’s something where I need to improve. I need to be a better leader. I need to take control. There are some things that we did on Saturday night that just can’t happen.”

• Developing a killer instinct — Multiple players insisted during locker-room cleanout that there’s nothing wrong with the Packers’ locker-room culture, and despite their late-season swoon, there didn’t seem to be any finger-pointing or discord — two telltale signs that a team’s culture is failing.

But having blown a 21-3 halftime lead to the Bears and four other double-digit leads during the season, that is clearly an issue.

“We’ve got to continue to be aggressive. Players, coaches, everybody. As a team, we’ve got to continue to be aggressive when you got your foot on somebody’s neck,” safety Javon Bullard said. “We’ve got to be that team that’s going to put people out when they down. We ain’t do that this year. We didn’t do it in the last game, we ain’t do it in the previous game [against the Bears] before that, so that’s something that we’ve got to find within ourselves to be better next year.”

Added Parsons: “We let some get away. This is a good football team. One thing I just challenged the guys is, I wasn’t here before. I don’t know what it looked like before. But I tell guys get ready to embrace this mentality of doing more than what your job requires because we’ve got to get ready to fight [into the] deep water.

“There’s a lot of reality checks that us as players need.”

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