GREEN BAY, Wis. — Seven factors scored towards the Philadelphia Eagles in a loss on “Monday Night time Soccer.” 13 factors the week earlier than in a loss to the Carolina Panthers. Ten factors in a Week 3 loss to the Cleveland Browns.
And in each a type of video games, the Inexperienced Bay Packers’ protection held their opponent to 16 or fewer factors, together with Monday’s 10-7 defeat at Lambeau Discipline.
No marvel Jordan Love mentioned, “You are feeling like as an offense you are letting the protection down.”
The Packers’ efficiency towards the Eagles was not solely one of many worst offensive video games in Love’s three seasons because the beginning quarterback, but in addition in Matt LaFleur’s seven seasons as head coach.
“I do know as a protection, they undoubtedly have each cause to have a look at us and say, ‘What are you guys doing? You guys have to determine it out and assist us out and put up some extra factors,’ as a result of they’re doing an excellent job,” Love mentioned. “It is irritating, however we’ll keep collectively. We’ll preserve the power excessive and discover methods to get higher and be higher as an offense.”
If that sounds acquainted, it is as a result of there was the same chorus after the 16-13 loss to the Panthers per week earlier, and after the 13-10 loss at Cleveland in Week 3.
“We’re halfway by the season, we won’t simply preserve saying, ‘All proper, we will deal with it,'” Packers operating again Josh Jacobs mentioned. “We have got to seek out precise solutions to our issues. I actually do not know what these solutions [are]. I really feel like all people’s obtained to dig deep and have the idea and provides extra. I imply, it is not straightforward. We won’t reside off of what we did final 12 months or nothing like that, we have got to be within the second.”
That is the place LaFleur, the offensive play caller, is available in. He has one 12 months remaining on his contract and new group president Ed Coverage, who took over in July, has not provided him or common supervisor Brian Gutekunst an extension but, in accordance with sources. Coverage additionally mentioned he does not imagine in lame duck coaches or common managers.
If LaFleur thinks he is teaching for his job, he wouldn’t say so.
“I will depart that for everyone else to resolve,” LaFleur mentioned. “I will simply concentrate on the day-to-day … I really feel such as you’re at all times teaching for every part on this league, you recognize? That is simply my mindset. It is at all times been that manner. You’ll be able to’t ever exhale. You gotta at all times be pushing. That is simply my mindset and that can be my mindset ’til they inform me to not coach anymore.”
LaFleur didn’t have many solutions for why the offensive struggled so mightily on Monday. Per week earlier, he misplaced maybe his finest playmaker, tight finish Tucker Kraft, to a season-ending knee harm. In opposition to the Eagles, he misplaced Love’s most-targeted receiver, Romeo Doubs, to a chest harm within the second half, and heart Elgton Jenkins to a fractured decrease leg.
Nevertheless it does not clarify why they struggled to get a lot going within the operating recreation, despite the fact that that was the point of interest of LaFleur’s recreation plan towards the Eagles. Jacobs carried 21 occasions for 74 yards (a 3.5-yard common) and had the one landing on a 6-yard run with 5:49 remaining.
“We’re halfway by the season, we won’t simply preserve saying, ‘All proper, we will deal with it.’ We have got to seek out precise solutions to our issues. I actually do not know what these solutions [are]. I really feel like all people’s obtained to dig deep and have the idea and provides extra.”
Packers operating again Josh Jacobs
“We needed to attempt to set up the run recreation and attempt to construct off of that,” LaFleur mentioned. “I believed there have been some moments the place we did an honest job, however in the end it wasn’t sufficient. It appeared to me that after we obtained in these crucial moments, it wasn’t essentially the primary and second down, it was extra the cash down, third down, fourth down, the place we simply malfunctioned.”
And it does not clarify why the Eagles appeared to know what the Packers had been going to run on their final actual probability — a fourth-and-1 with 1:30 left that the Eagles stuffed and compelled Jacobs to fumble.
“They known as it out,” Jacobs mentioned. “We known as our play. They [said it’s an] ‘inside zone, it is coming proper right here.’ So I type of like did not need to run proper there, however you recognize … yeah, that is simply the way it performed out.”
Love threw for simply 176 yards, and his 4.9 yards per try had been the fewest in any recreation of his NFL profession as a starter, in accordance with ESPN Analysis.
“Not ok,” Love mentioned when requested how he has been enjoying of late.
The Packers (5-3-1) fell from first within the NFC North to 3rd. In all three losses, they’ve allowed 16 or fewer factors. The New York Jets are the one different group that has a number of losses this season when permitting 16 or fewer factors.
“Actually, it is simply tremendous irritating,” Packers defensive finish Micah Parsons mentioned. “Nevertheless it’s simply considered one of them issues, like we will win collectively, we will lose collectively, whatever the consequence, and simply being there for our teammates, no matter who’s enjoying higher or which aspect is enjoying higher. It is simply necessary that we maintain one another up, till they get rolling. When everybody will get rolling, we’ll be a extremely good group.”