{"id":513073,"date":"2026-01-13T12:22:21","date_gmt":"2026-01-13T12:22:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/513073\/"},"modified":"2026-01-13T12:22:21","modified_gmt":"2026-01-13T12:22:21","slug":"packers-matt-lafleur-asked-about-his-potential-2026-staff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/513073\/","title":{"rendered":"Packers\u2019 Matt LaFleur asked about his potential 2026 staff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Green Bay Packers head coach Matt LaFleur still doesn\u2019t want to talk about his contract situation in Green Bay, at least in front of the media. On both Saturday, after the team\u2019s loss to the Chicago Bears, and Sunday, he said some version of \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.acmepackingcompany.com\/green-bay-packers-coaching-staff\/78111\/matt-lafleur-now-is-not-the-time-to-talk-contract-extension\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">now is not the time to talk about this<\/a>\u201d when peppered by questions about whether he will be the team\u2019s head coach in 2026.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">What he would dabble in, though, is hypotheticals about his 2026 staff. When asked if he will bring back all of his assistants next year, if he is back, he said that\u2019s something the team is working through right now.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">He was also asked if the team would look at an external hire to replace defensive coordinator Jeff Hafley. His response: \u201cAll options are on the table.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">This is notable, considering the way things have been done in Green Bay. Most of the staff are from internal promotions. Below is a breakdown of how many years the Packers\u2019 coaches have held (at least) positional coaching jobs with another NFL team:<\/p>\n<ul class=\"duet--article--unordered-list _1nfb3k4i feuejx0 ls9zuh1\">\n<li class=\"feuejx1\">Offensive coordinator Adam Stenavich: 0 years<\/li>\n<li class=\"feuejx1\">Passing game coordinator Jason Vrable: 0 years<\/li>\n<li class=\"feuejx1\">Quarterbacks coach Sean Mannion: 0 years<\/li>\n<li class=\"feuejx1\">Running backs coach Ben Sirmans: 4 years (a holdover who was originally a member of Mike McCarthy\u2019s staff)<\/li>\n<li class=\"feuejx1\">Receivers coach Ryan Mahaffey: 0 years<\/li>\n<li class=\"feuejx1\">Tight ends coach John Dunn: 2 years<\/li>\n<li class=\"feuejx1\">Offensive line coach Luke Butkus: 0 years<\/li>\n<li class=\"feuejx1\">Defensive Coordinator Jeff Hafley: 6 years<\/li>\n<li class=\"feuejx1\">Defensive line coach\/run game coordinator DeMarcus Covington: 6 years<\/li>\n<li class=\"feuejx1\">Passing game coordinator Derrick Ansley: 6 years<\/li>\n<li class=\"feuejx1\">Linebackers coach Sean Duggan: 0 years<\/li>\n<li class=\"feuejx1\">Defensive backs coach Ryan Downard: 0 years<\/li>\n<li class=\"feuejx1\">Special teams coordinator Rich Bisaccia: 20 years<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The Packers haven\u2019t exactly built an experienced staff of grizzly vets, except for Bisaccia. Bisaccia has held an on-field coaching gig with non-Green Bay programs for 20 years before his stint with the Packers. The rest of Green Bay\u2019s staff, 12 coaches combined, have 24 years on their resumes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">If there were an internal promotion to defensive coordinator, it would probably come by way of Covington or Ansley, who have prior NFL experience as defensive coordinators. In all likelihood, Hafley will take one of those assistants to be his defensive coordinator, wherever he ends up landing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Generally, when a coach leaves the Packers, Green Bay\u2019s answer is to promote the guy leaving with the guy who used to get him coffee, because it is cheap. If you think the team searched the globe for the best receivers coach when Jason Vrable was promoted to passing game coordinator, only to find out that the best man for the job globally was their own assistant offensive line coach, Ryan Mahaffey, then I don\u2019t know what to tell you.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">They\u2019ll pay a lot when they mess up big time, like after two straight misses \u2014 which happened at both special teams coordinator and defensive line coach under LaFleur \u2014 but those are mostly exceptions to the rule. If they lose two of Hafley, Covington and Ansley, that\u2019s 12 of the 24 years of non-Packers NFL experience that the non-Bisaccia assistants on the 2025 staff have combined. Based on the team\u2019s trends, the club won\u2019t exactly want to spend good money to replace that experience, either.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">LaFleur said that he \u201cfully anticipates [Hafley] getting one of these\u201d head coaching jobs this cycle.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">When asked about his relationship with new Packers president and CEO Ed Policy, who has been with the team since 2012, LaFleur responded, \u201cIt feels like since I got here,\u201d essentially claiming that Policy is fairly close to Mark Murphy day-to-day.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">LaFleur was finally asked whether he would come back to the Packers if the team didn\u2019t extend him and had him on a \u201clame duck season\u201d in 2026. He answered that the questions \u201care for another time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">I will say this: It\u2019s going to be hard to hire from the outside, at any position, if the rest of the staff is on one-year deals. Based on the tone of his Sunday press conference, though, it sure doesn\u2019t sound like LaFleur believes he\u2019s out. Read into that what you will.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Green Bay Packers head coach Matt LaFleur still doesn\u2019t want to talk about his contract situation in Green&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":513074,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[229253,19629,1232,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-513073","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl","8":"tag-green-bay-packers-coaching-staff","9":"tag-green-bay-packers-news","10":"tag-nfl","11":"tag-sports","12":"tag-united-states","13":"tag-unitedstates","14":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115887770309738701","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/513073","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=513073"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/513073\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/513074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=513073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=513073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=513073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}