The Green Bay Packers appeared poised to take down the Chicago Bears on the highway.
Then, Ben Johnson’s uber-aggressive teaching type bought the very best of Matt LaFleur, with the house group rallying again from a 21-3 halftime deficit. That is not the primary time LaFleur has gotten too conservative after leaping to a giant lead. That price the Packers a number of occasions this season and all through his whole tenure with the group. Nonetheless, Micah Parsons nonetheless does not need to hear something about his coach being fired. If something, that is on the gamers.
Micah Parsons defends Matt LaFleur after playoff exit
The previous Dallas Cowboys star admitted that LaFleur was a giant a part of what he wished to be with the Packers. Greater than that, he thinks they only caught a foul break within the loss.
“You speak about do your job, proper? You speak about coach, I imply this group put up … 27 factors? In a playoff recreation, I’ve all the time informed you, if my group places up 21 factors, we must always win that recreation,” Parsons told ESPN’s Rob Demovsky. “We put up 27 factors and we missed six, seven on particular groups. That’s 34 factors, and also you’re speaking about you need to do away with a coach.”
Parsons additionally believes it is as much as the gamers to take accountability for a way issues went down.
“At one level, gamers need to have accountability. And that’s one thing that I’m difficult us as gamers that we have to take. We have to have accountability,” Parsons continued. “How can we let that recreation go? Like, teaching can solely accomplish that a lot. It’s about timeouts and Xs and Os — nice. Typically, it’s about enjoying soccer on the similar time.”
Regardless of the criticism and the large pattern measurement of blown leads, the Packers reportedly nonetheless need to give LaFleur a contract extension. The roster wants some retooling and getting again to full energy, and so they may need to discover a alternative for defensive coordinator Jeff Hafley, a scorching commodity within the head-coaching cycle. For now, nonetheless, evidently LaFleur has the help of the locker room.
