The Green Bay Packers swung for the fences by hiring Matt LaFleur as their new head coach. After an explosive offseason article detailed the dysfunction in the organization and the tension between Aaron Rodgers and former coach Mike McCarthy, the Packers have been engulfed in drama.
They're looking forward to finally getting back to football, and are hoping LaFleur can inject some much-needed energy back into the franchise. Kristopher Knox of Bleacher Report recently ranked the riskiest move each NFL team made this offseason, and he chose the hiring of LaFleur for the Packers.
“These are the last few years of Rodgers' prime, and if LaFleur proves not to be head-coaching material, then they could feel like wasted years.”
Hiring LaFleur was definitely a risk, but in today's NFL, you can't really afford not to take them. LaFleur is only 39 and had never called plays before last season, but that doesn't mean he isn't right for the job.
Hiring a retread of the scrap heap certainly wasn't what Rodgers needs at this point in his career. The Packers' brain trust bet on the fact that LaFleur would be able to reinvigorate and push Rodgers, and there's a good chance they're right.
So far this offseason all the reports have indicated that the new duo is getting along well, and there's no way the relationship between the two could get worse than it was between Rodgers and McCarthy. The move might've been risky, but a risk might be exactly what the Packers need at this moment.
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