{"id":688540,"date":"2026-01-19T11:39:28","date_gmt":"2026-01-19T11:39:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/688540\/"},"modified":"2026-01-19T11:39:28","modified_gmt":"2026-01-19T11:39:28","slug":"matt-lafleur-brian-gutekunst-will-both-report-to-packers-ceo-ed-policy-directly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/688540\/","title":{"rendered":"Matt LaFleur, Brian Gutekunst will both report to Packers CEO Ed Policy directly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">It has long been wondered if new Green Bay Packers president and CEO Ed Policy would change his stance on the organization\u2019s structure. Before 2018, the year Brian Gutekunst replaced Ted Thompson as general manager, the head coach reported to the general manager, who in turn reported directly to the president and CEO.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Many speculated that Policy wanted to reinstall that system, rather than the one they currently have, where both the head coach and general manager report directly to the president and CEO, separately.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">And it\u2019s possible that the Packers wanted that structure, but <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/TomSilverstein\/status\/2012691358553641398\" rel=\"nofollow\">according to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel\u2019s Tom Silverstein<\/a>, the current structure will remain, following the extensions of head coach Matt LaFleur, general manager Brian Gutekunst and executive vice president\/director of football operations Russ Ball (better known as the team\u2019s cap wizard). Each will report to Policy independently, as they have in the past.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The real power is going to be that LaFleur will, at minimum, be able to make his case to Policy, directly, instead of leaving the potential of an out-of-the-blue clipping on the table if his communication with the president and CEO had been more limited during a tough stretch. Again, I don\u2019t think that\u2019s a major deal with how Gutekunst\u2019s relationship stands with the coaching staff, but it is at least somewhat of a small power victory for LaFleur (ultimately, it might not matter at all), if Policy indeed wanted to move back to the pre-2018 model.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It has long been wondered if new Green Bay Packers president and CEO Ed Policy would change his&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":688541,"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-688540","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\/115921575456405777","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/688540","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=688540"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/688540\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/688541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=688540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=688540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=688540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}