Six years into the MLF regime…and have they ever looked sharp and buttoned up in week one? I’m just saying…🤨

MLF seems too passive and nonconfrontational to get into his coaches and players to make certain things a mandate or else. That's why we get to see him often at his press conference constantly saying the same annoying stuff about having to get better, I need to be better, we need to do better, it won't happen again. He needs to grow a pair and get those coaches into a room together and tell them to knock it off or they're gone. Until he demands better tackling from players or they will be replaced, they won't tackle better. This is the NFL here, not some IVY League school where everyone is worried about their feelings. Speaking of feelings, ya know what feels good? Winning. Being told to get something done and you f'n do it. It's called accomplishment. When it happens it feels good. I see a lot of complacency from the coach and it bleeds into the personality of the team. They can't just play lights out for 8 or 9 games a year and then decide to just not show up at for the others. Great teams don't do that.

This is about 1/5 of the reason I was aghast at the idea of MLF ad coach of the year. Hopefully he'll be most improved this year, and maybe even a contender for one of the best.

GPG!

Youngest Team (again) in the NFL can overcome relative lack of experience with solid communication.

I would have thought Matt would have demanded focus on this important component of game planning.

It will be this week. Let's see it in the game.

Not an excuse, but a question. Does anyone else know if other teams experience this communication ever or even as often as the Packers?

Cool Hand Luke

The car wash scene made quite the impression on me when I was a youngster. Yummy.

Being here in Minny and not a vike fan I do know year in year out the vikes are always one of the least penalized teams. That's communication, spending time on rules and situations so players don't f it up.
What I read is clear indications LeFleur failed to include communication situations into training camp.
Nixon should have known day two of training camp, do not run ball out of end zone ever, problem solved. This is on lefleur

Tackling--will they or won't they? (I think it's optional in GB)

Maybe I don't watch enough of the other league games but I'm trying real hard to remember the last time I ever saw a twelve men on the field penalty given to the offense. Not saying it hasn't happened, but it has to be pretty rare.

I think in the communication round table they can discuss just how damn rare that one is.

MLF is in his 6th season as an NFL Head Coach and he is still having the same issues he had as a rookie HC. The list of mistakes that AL published in his weekly polluted mindset is a sad commentary on MLF as a 6th year HC.

I realize that the Packers are a young team and it was only the first game of the season but we see the same mistakes game after game and season after season.

Eventually one or more of the many mistakes that we watch allowed to continue all season gets the Packers eliminated from the playoffs. While the Packers are good enough to overcome their mistakes during the season they can’t get past the well coached and well prepared playoff teams which exploit the mistakes the Packers allow all season.

Maybe this is the season it improves but the first game hasn’t given any evidence that will happen. Let’s see what week 2 brings. But Mike McCarthy had communication issues and MLF seems to be carrying on what is now a Packer tradition.
Thanks, Since ‘61

It is early but the 2 teams already showing cohesion, dominance and sophisticated play-calling are the Niners and Chiefs.
MLF is not on the level of those coaches who keep one step ahead, adjust in-game and are innovative.
Matt needs a really sharp OC and Stenavich is not that person.

As always, it's the perpetual "the coach on our side of the fence is always greener" routine. Cool.

I'll stop just short of saying that MLF was a home-run hire. Not a lot short, but a little short.

Multiple MVP seasons out of Rodgers when he looked totally washed under McCarthy. Multiple 13 win seasons. Playoff wins. Jordan Love's development from a league-wide punchline to everybody now crapping their pants because of his very temporary injury.

Casual fans tend to be the least realistic people on the planet.

I think it’s pretty obvious that Rodgers wasn’t a LaFleur redemption by this point. A massively improved roster, which Ball’s years had left threadbare. A commitment to last dances and encores at vast future cap cost. Rodgers revising his technique independently and then clearly gaining a great amount of control over personnel and the O. Three, perhaps 4, years of being out coached when it matters or undone by issues that had festered openly for all to see.

I’d say your statement is a classic example of “fan goggle” assessment that ignores widely known factual context. LaFleur’s record is not as glowing or above legitimate question as you suggest. It’s probably somewhere between the above position and yours, but he inherited a hall of fame QB and yet could win nothing with him even with a stacked roster. Our best hope is that he’s learned and is a better coach now.

Relax folks. First game of the year. This was not the sh*t show like the NO game a few years back. Philly's a good team, and GB had a legitimate chance to win this game.

Nixon taking the ball out of the end-zone should be totally on Richy B. Man has coached special teams how long? I'm making that old fart (even though he's younger than me) run laps during practice on the first day back from Brazil.

Knowing that the first season game would be a warm-up unless starters played some in the pre-season, one half of first team players in the last preseason game only makes sense. If you don't do that, sloppy play and players are more likely to get hurt in the first "Real" game, non? Pay me now or pay me later.

My expectations have been tempered.

Good ideas