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Tomlin has to be the most boring, conservative coach in football.

30 yards downfield would been completely fine, that would have not allowed for enough time to spike the ball. Short of the sticks would have been fine as they could not have spiked it being 4th down. All they needed to do was protect the sidelines and a small zone 11-20 yards in the middle, and they should have figured that out during the timeout. The saving grace is that it happened in a game that ultimately meant nothing. So we can only hope they learned from it and make a better call if it comes down to it again in the playoffs.

This was the defense we showed on 3rd and 15 initially: then we called a timeout, and “corrected” it to this as posted before. the majority of the time, I feel like competent people run this organization. Then I see crap like this and I question everything I thought. I am going to lie to myself and say “we didn’t really care about winning and wanted to put something crazy on tape for Philly that we’d never actually do,” because that’s the only way I can actually wrap my head around this.

Came in here hoping your phone just autocorrected an S at the end of Bauer and this thread was for Trevor Bauer. No such luck.

Again, MLF himself admitted that he badly dropped the ball. As far as 1) , he had opportunities to have these conversations with Bisaccia as soon as the turnover happened. It doesn’t all just have to happen pre-kickoff. B ) (?) It’s all part of his job. The “more important things” include clock management. It is all part of a HCs job. I’m not putting the blame on our OC here. 3) Why exactly does MLF need to know how many yards the previous play will gain or lose? He doesn’t. All he needs to know is the exact field position that he’s willing to try a FG at if they face 4th down. 4) Nope, I wouldn’t have, and not even close to the point. I don’t criticize MLF for the sake of doing so. In fact, on the many occasions this year when MLF doesn’t “take the points” and fails on 4th down this year, I defend the aggression. Going for it there was defensible, regardless of result. Going for the FG was defensible, regardless of result . Not being on the same page with your ST coordinator as to what you were going to do is not defensible. Having your ST coordinator shout at you “look at the time!” after the timeout is not defensible. As an aside, can you imagine Andy Reid or Dan Campbell staring at their ST coordinator after that 3rd down, panicking as to what to do, then burning a timeout to give Love a chance to rally for the game winning FG with 50 seconds left and a timeout? Would never, ever happen. 5) They did lose the game because of the timeout. If the timeout was not called, the Packers almost certainly win. Yes, those other things that you mentioned could have turned the game as well. The horrible defensive 3rd and 15 call lost them the game as well. The overwhelming consensus, including from MLF himself, was that he did indeed mismanage the clock. He is not above reproach and it is ok to call it out.

How many times do modern NFL coaches and DCs need to see a play like that executed before they figure out that an opposing NFL offense can indeed snap a ball, throw a quick pass over the middle for 15-20 yards, get back to the line, and spike it, in less than 15 seconds, particularly when they’re coming out of a timeout and all on the same page? They could have even given some cushion over the middle if they had just protected the first down marker at the 35. It would have been 4th down, which would have meant no spike and no time for a fire drill FG. The one thing they couldn’t give up over the middle was first down yardage.

He summed it up perfectly. Great X’s and O’s guy. Zero feel for in-game management.

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Elephant in the room: Matt Lafleur is really, really bad at managing an NFL game clock. Today was not the first time. I don’t know if he doesn’t realize that he is, or just doesn’t think it’s that important. I don’t know what he needs to do to get better at it. I don’t know if he needs help with it. But this is absolutely a situation where he needs to acknowledge that this is a problem and do something about it. You can’t just say “that’s on me” and do nothing differently and fly by the seat of your pants again week after week. Yes, it’s on you. Yes, you need to do something about it.

Me to my buddy this morning: “I think Jeff Hafley has done about as well as he can this year with what he has.” Jeff Hafley, a few hours later with the game on the line and the Bears 15 yards from FG range: “Hey, check this out:”

I guess I don’t blame them, but the Bears’ wild celebration was such a sad little brother moment for them. You just capped off a 5-12 season that began with such high expectations. I’d be re-examining the state of my franchise if that win was so meaningful to me.

By no means am I calling for Jeff Hafley’s head, but Aaron Glenn is making him look really, really bad tonight.

Lost in the many other issues with this game was how bad that last defensive playcall was. I don’t know whether it was Hafley or MLF, probably Hafley, but whoever it was, shame on them. If you’re going to rush 3, which I already hate in general, you damn well better cover the middle of the field. Instead, the Packers just protected the sidelines and left the middle wide open. A modern day NFL offense, especially out of a timeout, is precise enough to do a quick pass for 15-20 yards over the middle, get down, get back to the line, and spike the ball, in less than 15 seconds. Yet no matter how many times we see that happen, teams still leave the middle wide open.

Going to be a major arbitrage opportunity for the gamblers out there who are going to go heavy on Philly early and go back to Green Bay when the line goes to 5-6 by kickoff.

Side note of respect to whichever Bears player it was that was immediately motioning for trainers when Watson went down, I don’t even know if the play was over yet.

He’s the perfect OC. He’s a very smart X’s and O’s guy that knows offensive football, and is creative, although sometimes too cute. But HC is different, and when you ask him to make a decision in the next 5 seconds, he freezes up. It’s just not his strong point. Unfortunately, it’s a really bad trait for your HC to have in huge games. In games, he’s playing checkers too often and not thinking ahead. The last drive was a textbook example of that. A coach who makes good in game decisions already knew exactly what his next move would be based on the down and distance of the 4th down. Again, he wasn’t thinking ahead. They got stuffed for a 2 yard loss and he was standing there with a “Oh crap, now what?” look on his face.

The number of “that can’t happen” we’ve heard from MLF this season is nauseating. What can’t happen is repeatedly having to sheepishly explain that something that did happen during a game can’t happen. Do better at in-game communication and instinctive decision making so you don’t have to keep returning to the podium with that statement. MLF has said numerous times that he makes decisions with “his gut”. Maybe try, I don’t know, trying to think ahead a little bit during the game instead?

Wow. I expect heavy money on Philly to push that to at least 5 by kickoff.

https://www.acmepackingcompany.com/2025/1/5/24336581/green-bay-packers-news-matt-lafleur-on-late-game-clock-mismanagement-that-falls-on-my-shoulders You are the head coach of a professional football team. You needed 2 points with one minute left in the game to win. The opposing team had 1 timeout. How were you not on the same page with your special teams coach regarding the range of your kicker? How had you not discussed that with him prior to 4th down? “That can’t happen” but it did, Matt, it did.

Some NFL head coaches have an assistant with no other purpose than to help manage clock decisions. I don’t know if it’s because of pride or what that he doesn’t have one, but he needs one. He’s hurt the team on numerous occasions with poor clock management. And it’s not a good look at all that MLF and Bisaccia weren’t on the same page on how close they needed to get to try McManus.

You’re completely kidding, right? I can’t believe someone is going to defend that atrocity. It’s called proactive thinking, the best NFL coaches know before that 3rd down play even happens what their max range is that they’re willing to try based on the conditions and direction. They aren’t staring at their special teams coach like a deer in the headlights trying to figure it out on the fly. You don’t get to “think about it”. That decision needs to be known before the snap. Unless you want to give them enough time to drive back down the field and win it, which is exactly what they did. And even if they wanted to “think about it”, they still could have run more time off the clock before going for it on 4th. All they needed to do was get another 10-15 yards and they’re well in comfortable range. 50 seconds is a lifetime of seconds on the clock in the NFL to come back when all you need is 3. Even Matt admitted he screwed the pooch.

Matt Lafleur calling a timeout with 54 seconds left before our FG was an egregious, fireable offense and no one is talking about it. It cost us the game. One of the absolute worst clock management mistakes I’ve ever seen.

If we lose this game, people aren’t recognizing what an egregiously awful timeout and clock management that that was by MLF.

Why would you call timeout? How stupid can you possibly be with clock management? You still have no shot if you miss, and now you’ve given the Bears a free timeout if you make it?

The Malik Willis we’ve seen today is much closer to the one I anticipated seeing earlier this season.