Matt LaFleur won’t need to wait long to have his meeting with the Green Bay Packers‘ new team president to discuss his future as the team’s head coach.
During his end-of-season press conference on January 11, LaFleur was asked multiple questions about his job status with the team after their 2025 campaign ended with five consecutive losses and a first-round exit from the NFL playoffs at Chicago’s hands.
Largely, LaFleur repeated the same thing he had said in the postgame of their 31-27 loss to the Bears: that his job status is “not the focus right now” on the heels of elimination. He did, however, concede that he planned to meet with Ed Policy — the team’s new CEO and president — to discuss his future either late January 11 or “sometime” January 12.
“We talked briefly on the plane,” LaFleur said Monday about Policy, “and there’s going to be a time when we’re going to get together, either tonight or tomorrow sometime.”
“We all know what type of business this is. The focus for me was, at least today, to take a look at the tape and try to figure out why and what went wrong [against the Bears], so that’s where all my focus lies. And in that process, you start thinking about, ‘Alright, what are the things that we need to do to get better?’ That’s just where I’ve put all my mental energy.”
Update: According to ESPN’s Adam Schefter, the Packers “now are expected to try to work out a deal in the coming days to keep head coach Matt LaFleur in Green Bay,” but he did not make it clear what circumstances might prevent them from reaching a deal.
Matt LaFleur Has Success, but Playoff History is Iffy
LaFleur is not a coach that many expected to see on the hot seat at the onset of the 2025 NFL season. Sure, Policy had made it clear that he did not like having a head coach or a general manager with just one year left of their contract, implying they would decide on the futures of both posts after the season. Even still, LaFleur seems reasonably safe.
Given how the 2025 season unfolded, though, there are legitimate questions that the Packers need to ask themselves about LaFleur before signing a new contract with him.
LaFleur has an impressive regular-season track record with the Packers, having won 13 games and the division title in each of his first three seasons as head coach from 2019 to 2021. During that stretch, he also played a critical role in helping quarterback Aaron Rodgers resurge to win his third and fourth career MVPs, finding an effective dynamic between them that guided them to two consecutive conference championship games.
Since their last NFC title game appearance in the 2020 playoffs, though, the Packers have won just one of their five playoff games, suffering losses in their first game of the postseason on three occasions — including at home as the No. 1 seed in 2021’s playoffs.
This time around, the Packers not only lost in the first round but capped their season with five straight losses — two to the Bears — that took all the wind out of their sails.
“I think you’re always trying to evaluate and making sure you’re putting your players in position to make plays,” LaFleur said. “And ultimately, it’s going to come down to that. These games are tight, the margins are small. And when you have those opportunities, you’ve got to take advantage of them.”
Matt LaFleur Declines to Make Case for Remaining HC
The Packers have reached a crossroads with LaFleur. He needs just 13 more wins as their head coach to move into an all-time tie with Vince Lombardi, but he has struggled to deliver on the team’s championship aspirations, particularly since losing Rodgers.
Meanwhile, Tom Silverstein of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel has reported that the Packers may need to offer a significant amount of money — in the range of $12-15 million — to persuade their head coach to remain in his post for an eighth season.
When asked if he believes he is the person who can get the Packers over the hump and back in proper Super Bowl contention, though, LaFleur deflected to the right now.
“I don’t think those are questions for me,” LaFleur said. “Like I said, I think my sole focus is trying to find solutions to some of our issues and why things went awry yesterday. It’s disappointing. I’m as disappointed, obviously, as all you guys, as our fans, as everybody in our organization, because we had plenty of opportunities to slam the door shut and we didn’t get it done.”
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