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GREEN BAY, Wis. \u2014 Green Bay Packers coach\u00a0Matt LaFleur<\/a>\u00a0was more interested in talking about his team\u2019s future than his own a day after the biggest playoff collapse in the franchise\u2019s storied history.<\/p>\n

How long the two are connected remains uncertain.<\/p>\n

LaFleur said Sunday that he spoke briefly with team president and CEO Ed Policy on the flight back to Green Bay after the Packers\u2019\u00a031-27 loss<\/a>\u00a0to the Chicago Bears in an NFC wild-card playoff game Saturday night. LaFleur expected to meet with Policy again either later Sunday night or Monday.<\/p>\n

What You Need To Know<\/p>\n

Green Bay Packers coach Matt LaFleur is more interested in talking about his team\u2019s future than his own
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LaFleur spoke to reporters Sunday, a day after the biggest playoff collapse in the franchise’s storied history
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He says he spoke briefly with team president and CEO Ed Policy on the flight back to Green Bay after the Packers\u2019 31-27 loss to the Chicago Bears in an NFC wild-card playoff game Saturday night
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But he declined to comment on whether he expected to keep his job after the Packers made their third straight playoff appearance but lost their final five games<\/p>\n

But he declined to comment on whether he expected to keep his job after the Packers (9-8-1) made their third straight playoff appearance but lost their final five games.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s not the focus right now, to be honest with you,\u201d LaFleur said. \u201cWe\u2019re fresh off this loss. My sole focus is on our players, our team, and just trying to find ways to get better.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Packers became the fourth team in NFL history to lose a playoff game after leading by at least 15 points to start the fourth quarter. Green Bay led 21-3 at halftime and 21-6 after the third period.<\/p>\n

LaFleur reiterated Sunday how much he wants to keep the job he\u2019s had for the last seven seasons.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is one of one,\u201d LaFleur said. \u201cI love this place.\u201d<\/p>\n

LaFleur and general manager Brian Gutekunst have one year remaining on their contracts. Policy said last summer he would prefer not to have his coach and GM enter the final year of their contracts without extensions, saying it \u201ccreates a lot of issues.\u201d<\/p>\n

That seemingly makes extending LaFleur\u2019s contract or firing him the most likely options.<\/p>\n

LaFleur was asked Sunday if he believed it could be feasible to return next season without an extension, or whether his contract status would cause too many distractions.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s not my focus right now,\u201d LaFleur replied. \u201cThose conversations will be had in a very short period of time.\u201d<\/p>\n

LaFleur also was asked why he believes he\u2019s the right coach to get Green Bay over the hump.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t think those are questions for me,\u201d LaFleur said. \u201cLike I said, I think my sole focus is just trying to find solutions to some of our issues and why things went awry yesterday. And you know, it\u2019s disappointing. I\u2019m as disappointed, obviously, as, as all you guys, as our fans, as everybody in our organization, because we had plenty of opportunities to slam the door shut and we didn\u2019t get it done.\u201d<\/p>\n

Green Bay is 76-40-1 in the regular season but 3-6 in the playoffs under LaFleur. The Packers have made six postseason appearances in LaFleur\u2019s seven seasons.<\/p>\n

The Packers led by at least nine points in the second half of four of their eight losses this season, and they also squandered an early 13-0 advantage in a 40-all tie at Dallas. LaFleur said at his postgame news conference Saturday that \u201cwe\u2019ve just got to do a better job of keeping our composure as a football team,\u201d specifically in critical moments.<\/p>\n

LaFleur clarified those comments Sunday by saying he believed Green Bay\u2019s issues were more from a lack of execution than a lack of composure. He noted that the execution problems came from coaching decisions as well as from players\u2019 actions.<\/p>\n

He also discussed what the Packers could do differently to avoid a similar fate next season, assuming he returns.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think we have to look at everything, from how we train to how we practice,\u201d LaFleur said. \u201cThese are conversations that I\u2019ve already had with some of our people. Just trying to find maybe different ways to do things 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.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"GREEN BAY, Wis. \u2014 Green Bay Packers coach\u00a0Matt LaFleur\u00a0was more interested in talking about his team\u2019s future than…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":671578,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2072],"tags":[1615,1613,2910,7,41,345,2514,2513,88,6,428,9,1004,991],"class_list":{"0":"post-671577","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-green-bay-packers","8":"tag-app-sports","9":"tag-app-top-stories","10":"tag-associated-press","11":"tag-football","12":"tag-green-bay","13":"tag-green-bay-packers","14":"tag-greenbay","15":"tag-greenbaypackers","16":"tag-news","17":"tag-nfl","18":"tag-packers","19":"tag-sports","20":"tag-top-stories","21":"tag-wisconsin"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115882576138539922","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/671577","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=671577"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/671577\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/671578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=671577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=671577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=671577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}