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Green Bay Packers head coach Matt LaFleur made a major decision amid rumors he could be on the hot seat<\/p>\n
Following the\u00a0Green Bay Packers\u2019 10-7 Week 10 loss to the\u00a0Philadelphia Eagles\u00a0on \u201cMonday Night Football,\u201d head coach Matt LaFleur was immediately bombarded with questions about his job security.<\/p>\n
Though he has a 72-36-1 record in six-and-a-half seasons with the Packers, LaFleur has come under fire in recent years for his third-, second-, and third-place finishes in the NFC North, respectively, the last three seasons.<\/p>\n
Some might say it\u2019s a bit premature to put LaFleur on the hot seat, but others like\u00a0The Athletic\u2019s Matt Schneidman, believe the 46-year-old could be coaching for his job the rest of the season.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ll leave that for everybody else to decide,\u201d\u00a0LaFleur said\u00a0about whether he thinks his job is at risk. \u201cI\u2019ll just focus on the day-to-day. \u2026 I feel like you\u2019re always coaching for everything in this league, you know? \u2026 That\u2019s just my mindset and that will be my mindset \u2019til they tell me not to coach anymore.\u201d<\/p>\n
While the calls for LaFleur\u2019s job will likely only get louder with each Packers loss, some feel he could have quelled some of those unruly fans wanting him ousted if he had done one simple thing: relinquish his offensive play-calling duties.<\/p>\n
However, as LaFleur informed reporters during Wednesday\u2019s media availability, that\u2019s not something he\u2019s willing to do at this moment.<\/p>\n
\u201cWith a chuckle, Matt LaFleur says he isn\u2019t giving up play calling,\u201d Schneidman tweeted.<\/p>\n
With a chuckle, Matt LaFleur says he isn\u2019t giving up play calling.<\/p>\n
While the Packers are playing championship-caliber defense through 10 games, the same can\u2019t be said of the offense.<\/p>\n
Green Bay ranks 12th in yards per game (349.3), 15th in points per game (23.7), and it has the 20th-ranked rushing offense. The Packers also have the sixth-worst average yards per rush (3.9).<\/p>\n
Those numbers, while not terrible, don\u2019t exactly paint the picture of an offense poised to make a deep playoff run.<\/p>\n
LaFleur admitted that he knows changes have to be made.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think that, especially as the play-caller, you\u2019re trying to put people in the best position possible to go out there and have success,\u201d\u00a0LaFleur added, via ESPN. \u201cAnd when we\u2019re not having collective success \u2026 you have to challenge yourself to do better, to find something else in order to go out there and move the ball and score points.\u201d<\/p>\n
GettyGreen Bay Packers QB\u00a0Jordan Love\u00a0recently stated he has full confidence in head coach Matt LaFleur despite the team\u2019s offensive struggles<\/p>\n
Offensive struggles are something new for the Packers under LaFleur.<\/p>\n
In his previous six season, Green Bay had a top-11 offense four times, including having the fifth-best offense last season.<\/p>\n
That track record is likely why star quarterback Jordan Love hasn\u2019t lost faith in his head coach. After Monday\u2019s loss, Love stood up for his head coach, stating no one should be counting LaFleur out just yet.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ve got a lot of trust in Matt,\u201d\u00a0Love said. \u201cThat\u2019s something that\u2019s not wavering at all. I\u2019ve been with Matt since I got here. I know exactly what he\u2019s capable of, what the whole staff is capable of; that\u2019s not wavering. It comes back to all of us \u2014 players, coaches, everybody \u2014 finding ways to improve and get better.\u201d<\/p>\n
(Photo by Michael Hickey\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n
INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA – FEBRUARY 28: Marshawn Kneeland #DL41 of the Western Michigan Broncos speaks to the media during the 2024 NFL Draft Combine at Lucas Oil Stadium on February 28, 2024 in Indianapolis, Indiana. (Photo by Michael Hickey\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n
It\u2019s not even been a week since the tragic apparent suicide of\u00a0Cowboys\u00a0end\u00a0Marshawn Kneeland, and still, the news is raw for most around the organization. It\u2019s even more painful, of course, for those who were closest to Kneeland, especially his longtime girlfriend, Catalina Marcena, who has been his partner since Kneeland was a collegiate player at Western Michigan.<\/p>\n
It was Marcena who alerted police back on November 5 that Kneeland was armed and could be a danger to himself, warning of his history of mental illness. In the days since, Marcena has remained out of the spotlight, but she did finally speak this week, at first\u00a0telling the Daily Mail, \u201cIt\u2019s too much.\u201d<\/p>\n
She went on: \u201cI\u2019m grieving hard right now. It will be a long time before I\u2019ll feel ready to talk at any length.\u00a0\u00a0We\u2019re still in the early stages of everything. We are working on the funeral arrangements. I don\u2019t know where it\u2019s going to be yet.\u201d<\/p>\n
Marcena, who founded a clothing line called, SZN Stitches,\u00a0posted to Facebook\u00a0this week, writing, \u201cmy sweet baby, words could never express how broken I feel, you\u2019re my everything. I\u2019ll love you forever my beautiful angel.\u201d<\/p>\n
Kneeland was just 24 when he died. Marcena is 22.<\/p>\n
FacebookCowboys defensive end Marshawn Kneeland and girlfriend Catalina Marcena, from her Facebook post.<\/p>\n
Kneeland\u2019s death came 20 months after the death of his mother, Wendy.<\/p>\n
Back on February 18, 2024, just days before the start of the\u00a0NFL\u00a0Combine in Indianapolis, where Kneeland would solidify his professional future after his\u00a0 career at Western Michigan, Wendy, died suddenly of an undisclosed illness. Kneeland headed into the Combine with a heavy heart, of course, but did not go public about his mother\u2019s death.<\/p>\n
He said at the time, \u201cA lot of people don\u2019t know because I really don\u2019t talk about it too much \u2026 It was tough, it still is, but I know at the end of the day the thing that gets me through it is she spent all her life trying to get me to go here and supported me as much as she could to get me to the NFL.\u201d<\/p>\n
Around the NFL this week, there were moments of silence held for Kneeland as the Cowboys were idle in their bye week. The Cowboys are returning to practice, and trying to return to business as usual, as much as possible, in preparation for Monday\u2019s game against the\u00a0Raiders.<\/p>\n
Team owner Jerry Jones first addressed Kneeland\u2019s death publicly in a radio interview in Dallas this week,\u00a0saying he was, \u201cdevastated.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI think we all have unfettered feelings about the people we love, people we work with, and this is just a time when you acknowledge that there\u2019s no answers,\u201d Jones said on 105.3 The Fan in Dallas. \u201cIt makes you want to live life to the fullest. It makes you want to look for the very best in what we have for each other. And in some way make sense out of these times in terms of what they can mean from helping those that are here on Earth right now.<\/p>\n
\u201cAll of those things are very natural, come to mind, but his death is such a national awareness thing that it takes on some of that light when we think about how we go forward.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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