{"id":687243,"date":"2026-01-18T21:29:20","date_gmt":"2026-01-18T21:29:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/687243\/"},"modified":"2026-01-18T21:29:20","modified_gmt":"2026-01-18T21:29:20","slug":"matt-lafleur-isnt-required-to-make-staff-changes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/687243\/","title":{"rendered":"Matt LaFleur isn\u2019t required to make staff changes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Hidden in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/athletic\/6962199\/2026\/01\/17\/matt-lafleur-packers-contract-extension\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">reporting from the Athletic\u2019s Dianna Russini and Matt Schneidman<\/a> on the Green Bay Packers bringing back head coach Matt LaFleur is this quote: \u201cIn their recent meetings, [president and CEO Ed] Policy didn\u2019t mandate LaFleur make changes with his staff, and a source said neither [general manager Brian] Gutekunst nor [executive vice president\/director of football operations Russ] Ball would, either.\u201d If that reporting is true, then staff changes won\u2019t be forced upon LaFleur and probably weren\u2019t a big part of contract talks, which ended up lasting seven days from the Packers\u2019 loss to the Chicago Bears until the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.acmepackingcompany.com\/green-bay-packers-news\/78342\/packers-and-matt-lafleur-agree-to-contract-extension\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">head coach inked a multi-year extension<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">On top of that, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.acmepackingcompany.com\/green-bay-packers-coaching-staff\/78449\/matt-lafleur-brian-gutekunst-will-both-report-to-packers-ceo-ed-policy-directly\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Milwaukee Journal Sentinel\u2019s Tom Silverstein reported<\/a> on Saturday night that the team\u2019s organizational structure will not be changing, as each of Gutekunst, Ball and LaFleur will each individually report to Policy, rather than the general manager being the president\u2019s sole direct report, which was Green Bay\u2019s previous model before then president Mark Murphy changed the structure in 2018.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hidden in the reporting from the Athletic\u2019s Dianna Russini and Matt Schneidman on the Green Bay Packers bringing&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":687244,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2072],"tags":[7,41,345,97481,2702,2514,2513,6,428],"class_list":{"0":"post-687243","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-green-bay-packers","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-green-bay","10":"tag-green-bay-packers","11":"tag-green-bay-packers-coaching-staff","12":"tag-green-bay-packers-news","13":"tag-greenbay","14":"tag-greenbaypackers","15":"tag-nfl","16":"tag-packers"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115918233496822244","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/687243","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=687243"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/687243\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/687244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=687243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=687243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=687243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}