LaFleur’s clock management is in fact abysmal, and I don’t see much reason to hope for improvement on that.
But as was also discussed earlier, he is such a conservative coach about most of his in-game decisions, too. This is where there should be improvement, because he has demonstrated that he can coach differently:
I haven’t looked at this year’s numbers specifically, but the eye test suggests to me he’s still more in line with 2023-2024 than 2020-2022.
I have two thoughts. One, he obviously had Rodgers in the early part of his tenure, and when combined with a mostly rock-solid O-line this probably gave LaFleur a lot of confidence to let 12 go get it pretty much whenever he thought it was there for the taking. Love and this current line isn’t on that level—and that’s fine to an extent, but I’d like to see them try and get two or three yards on 4th more often.
My second thought, related to the first, is that LaFleur is now gun shy. He seems to be making decisions out of fear of what might happen instead of taking initiative to drive more desirable outcomes, which is what the numbers would also suggest is the right call. I leave it to the reader to decide for themself how much confidence they have in LaFleur ever finding his aggression again. Much may depend on it.