Matt LaFleur might have work to do to keep his job.
Despite being one of the NFL’s winningest coaches, at least in the regular season, his job security with the Packers is reportedly not firm.
Fox NFL Insider Jay Glazer listed LaFleur in his “time will tell” list of potential head coach firings across the league.
“You’re talking about Matt LaFleur also,” Glazer said on the “Fox NFL Sunday” show. “Why’s he on the board? Matt LaFleur’s job security has been questioned weekly at his press conferences. Which would be crazy to move on from a guy like that, but he’s there.”
The Packers are locked into the No. 7 seed in the NFC, so they did not have anything to play for in their clash against the Vikings on Sunday.
As a result, they rested quarterback Jordan Love, despite him clearing concussion protocol, along with a few other starters.
Currently in his seventh season with the team, LaFleur entered Sunday with a 76-39-1 regular season record, including three-straight 13-win seasons (and three-straight NFC North titles) when he had Aaron Rodgers across the first three seasons of his tenure.
He has only missed the playoffs once in his tenure — in 2022, when the Packers went 8-9.
But he also has repeatedly fallen short in the postseason — last year, the Packers were eliminated in the wild-card round by the Eagles.
And this year marked his fourth straight year not winning the division they once dominated.
The Packers entered this season with massive expectations, having pulled off a blockbuster trade to acquire star edge rusher Micah Parsons and with Love in his third season as a starter.
But Parsons tore his ACL in Week 14 and the Packers have struggled down the stretch of the regular season, carrying a three-game losing streak into Sunday.
With another playoff shortcoming, the Packers could look to shake things up.
“I feel like you’re always coaching for everything in this league, you know? That’s just my mindset,” LaFleur said earlier this season. “It’s always been that way. You can’t ever exhale. You gotta always be pushing. That’s just my mindset and that will be my mindset ’til they tell me not to coach anymore.”
