Former Packers QB calls out Matt LaFleur’s scheme

Inexperienced Bay Packers head coach Matt LaFleur has come below fireplace due to his workforce’s awful begin within the post-Aaron Rodgers period.

The Packers are 2-3 and driving a two-game dropping streak coming off a beatdown by the hands of the Detroit Lions on “Thursday Night time Soccer” adopted by an uninspired efficiency in opposition to the Las Vegas Raiders on “Monday Night time Soccer.”

LaFleur’s offense is ranked twenty eighth within the league in yards per recreation and his quarterback, Jordan Love, appears to be regressing game-by-game. As soon as considered an offensive guru from the teaching tree of Kyle Shanahan and Sean McVay, LaFleur appears uncovered with out a future Corridor of Famer guiding his offense.

However is it Love, or is it the offense?

In response to somebody who is aware of that offense, former Packers backup quarterback Kurt Benkert, it is truly the scheme that is the issue.

“It’s outdated, and there’s a higher technique to play offense proper now,” Benkert mentioned on X, the platform previously referred to as Twitter.

It is price noting that Benkert was additionally open about the truth that he and LaFleur butted heads fairly a bit when he was with the workforce. He additionally did not have a ton of expertise with LaFleur and the Packers. He was a apply squad participant for many of 2021, however he did make the energetic roster in December because of Love being positioned on the reserve/COVID-19 checklist.