Packers hiring LaFleur.

[Bretsky]

Outside candidate that would shock the world, please Bretsky and piss off most of older PackerRats:


Lane Kiffin as OC.

BTW, this guy would NEVER be considered; he's too strong willed and opinionated for Marcia

[Bretsky]

Tyler Dunne @TyDunne

Really enjoyed chatting with Nathaniel Hackett back in August. Energy has been through the roof with the likes of EJ Manuel and Blake Bortles as OC. Imagine coaching Rodgers will ramp that up a notch or two. Seems to have the personality to push 12, too.


Well, he will know what bad looks like.

If I got fired by the Jags I'd be stoked to get a job too

[pbmax]

If I got fired by the Jags I'd be stoked to get a job too

Jags were fifth in points and sixth in yards last year. Bucs were 18th and 9th.

[Teamcheez1]

Jags were fifth in points and sixth in yards last year. Bucs were 18th and 9th.

You’re going to have a hard time reasoning with folks that just want a shiny new toy.

[pbmax]

Might have dodged a bullet. Look at Adam Gase's eyes during his Jets PC.

https://deadspin.com/adam-gases-eyes-introduced-to-new-york-media-1831744683

[Joemailman]

If I got fired by the Jags I'd be stoked to get a job too

He was the scapegoat. Jags averaged just over 9 PPG after they fired him.

[mraynrand]

You’re going to have a hard time reasoning with folks that just want a shiny new toy.

I am sick, sick for toys.

[mraynrand]

Might have dodged a bullet. Look at Adam Gase's eyes during his Jets PC.

https://deadspin.com/adam-gases-eyes...dia-1831744683

[Bretsky]

He was the scapegoat. Jags averaged just over 9 PPG after they fired him.

Is that the word in Jacksonville ? He was there for quite some time, right ??

[texaspackerbacker]

This guy will mean about as much for the Packers as Philbin did with McCarthy - an OC working for an offensive-minded head coach. Has Lafleur said yet if he will call the plays? Very likely that he does, and a sure thing he will design the offense and do the game-planning.

[red]

Captain Obvioius would like to point out the Cleveland jobs seem more appealing to Green Bay anyways

For GOD"S Sake we can't even land Monkey

Anybody else thinking we're hiring a bunch of Hack's.....excuse the pun.....of our next

Offensive Coordinator....fired by the Jags....with a long long list of sub par offenses he's led ((((

our new coaches don't inspire a lot of confidence do they?

gotta wonder if we're just taking what we can get. maybe everyone sees the obvious, we are a shit team with a QB running the show

when cleveland looks like the better option, you know youre fucked

good bye glory years, hello syberia

[pbmax]

Packer Report @PackerReport
For what it's worth, and it's probably nothing, but Rizzi and Mark Murphy were at Colgate in 1993.


Its not the QB we need to be worried about.

[pbmax]

So Shawn Jefferson is getting a chance to interview for WR according to Spoon. https://www.jsonline.com/story/sport...or/2574739002/

In addition to hiring Hackett and pursuing Rizzi, LaFleur has shown interest in Dolphins assistant head coach/offense Shawn Jefferson, according to a source. It is believed LaFleur is looking at him as a wide receivers coach.

Which leaves the question of Karl Dorrell. WR coach for the Jets. Has experience in several offenses including Shanahan's and was a head coach at UCLA. The JSO story originally had him interviewing for the OC job, but it was corrected to WR coach. Wonder if one of these guys gets the QB coach job?

https://www.jsonline.com/story/sports/nfl/packers/2019/01/12/jets-wr-coach-karl-dorrell-emerges-packers-oc-candidate/2552020002/

[Fritz]

Might have dodged a bullet. Look at Adam Gase's eyes during his Jets PC.

https://deadspin.com/adam-gases-eyes...dia-1831744683

Wow. He looks like a cross between Marty Feldman and Pee Wee Herman.

Yikes.

[pbmax]

At some point, some analytic type is going to apply some metrics and logic to football administration and we will finally be at the beginning of the end of hiring coaches who beat our pants off 3 or 4 years ago.

Albert Brea, who is an idiot, but for this moment I am hoping can handle transcription:

WHAT MATT LAFLEUR BRINGS TO GREEN BAY

Here’s how well Matt LaFleur’s interview went with Green Bay—he showed up with three iPads (one for president Mark Murphy, one for GM Brian Gutekunst and one for EVP Russ Ball), planning to use them as a visual aids for a presentation he wanted to give. He never gave that presentation. And he got the job anyways.


“I can’t actually tell you what he was going to show us, becuase I never saw what it was,” Gutekunst told me over the phone on Friday. “But you could tell he’d done a lot of work on it. I’m sure he’s probably thinking to himself, I spent how many hours on these things?”

He doesn’t need to worry about it anymore, of course. The 39-year-old former Rams and Titans offensive coordinator won what was a wide-open process that really began in earnest with the Dec. 2 dismissal of Mike McCarthy. And in the middle of it was the 45-year-old Gutekunst, a first-year GM who came in with no experience in the way of searching for a head coach.

In fact, back when the Packers last hired coach (McCarthy, in 2006), Gutekunst was the team’s Southeast area scout, and far removed from the process. “I was grinding on the road, probably at the East-West game, when all that went down,” he says.

So I called Gutekunst to see what this experience was like for him. Here’s a piece of our conversation.

Was there an advantage to starting the search early?
“I think that allowed us time to really start vetting candidates, to narrow the list. And even though we actually ended up talking to quite a number of people, I just think it helped that. We wanted to start with a wide net, and I think we did that, shortly after Mark relieved Mike.