Gannon shifting to a 3-4 base system<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\nBut in LaFleur\u2019s eyes, even with Jordan Love heading into his seventh NFL season and fourth as the team\u2019s starting quarterback, it\u2019s also time for an offensive refresh.<\/p>\n
The Packers finished the 2025 season ranked 16th in scoring offense (23.0 points per game), 15th in total offense (332.6 yards per game), 15th in rushing offense (119.8 yards per game), 17th in passing offense (212.8 yards per game), second in third-down offense (a 48.78% conversion rate) and tied for 14th in red-zone efficiency (a 57.63% touchdown rate).<\/p>\n
\u201cCertainly, are we satisfied? Hell no. Not even close. We always want more,\u201d LaFleur said. \u201cUntil you’re hoisting that Lombardi [Trophy], you’re not going to be satisfied. And even then, you’re going to want to do it again.\u201d<\/p>\n
There is one potential difference between McCarthy\u2019s lot in life in 2018 and LaFleur\u2019s current situation: He seemingly has greater job security than McCarthy did back then.<\/p>\n
Whereas then-team president\/CEO Mark Murphy had signed McCarthy to a one-year extension during the 2017 season that meant he was under contract through the 2019 season, LaFleur \u2014 along with general manager Brian Gutekunst and director of football operations Russ Ball \u2014 got a \u201cmulti-year\u201d extension in January.<\/p>\n
Although Murphy\u2019s successor as team president, Ed Policy, has refused to divulge how long those extensions are, it is widely believed that LaFleur is under contract for at minimum two more years, through 2028. And Policy was emphatic when discussing the extensions earlier this week at the NFL Meetings that the deals for all three men aren\u2019t designed to quell talk about their jobs being in jeopardy.<\/p>\n
“Certainly, accountability is a big part of any head coach’s job,” Policy told reporters covering the meetings in person in Arizona. “I won’t speak about any details of his contract, but I would reiterate: Yes, they are very real contracts. For all three of them.<\/p>\n
\u201cThese were not one-year extensions. They were multi-year extensions. They were not prove-it contracts. They were very significant commitments to each of the three.”<\/p>\n
With that security, perhaps LaFleur has more leeway to reinvent the offense. Still, it has to work for it to be worth it.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think that’s the beauty in coaching \u2014 you\u2019ve got to find out what your guys do the best and then put them in the position to go out there and do that,\u201d LaFleur explained after the Arizona Cardinals\u2019 press conference introducing his brother, Mike, as their head coach back in early February.<\/p>\n
\u201cCertainly, [Los Angeles Rams head coach] Sean [McVay] does it as good as anybody in the game, in my opinion, just being able to adapt. Mike talked about being organic throughout the course of the season and how you evolve. And I think there’s so much truth to that. You can’t be rigid.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think the days of rigidness in this profession [of] coaching are long gone. It can’t be, \u2018This is how it’s going to be, because this is the way we’ve always done it.\u2019 It’s, \u2018You got to find out what your guys do well, and then you put them in position. And it organically grows throughout the course of the season.\u201d<\/p>\n
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