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Rob Demowski
Green Bay, Wis. Scored seven points against — philadelphia eagles In defeat on “Monday Night Football”. There was a thirteen point loss a week ago carolina panthersLoss of 3 by 10 points in a week cleveland browns,
And in every one of those games, green Bay Packers‘The defense held its opponent to 16 or fewer points, including Monday’s score lost 10-7 At Lambeau Field.
no surprise jordan love Said, “You feel like as an offense you’re wearing down the defense.”
The Packers’ performance against the Eagles was not only one of the worst offensive games in Love’s three seasons as the starting quarterback, but also in Matt LaFleur’s seven seasons as head coach.
“I know defensively, they definitely have every reason to look at us and say, ‘What are you guys doing? You guys need to figure it out and help us and get some more points,’ because they’re doing a great job,” Love said. “It’s disappointing, but we’ll stick together. We’ll keep the energy high and find ways to get better and get better as an offense.”
If this sounds familiar, that’s because there were similar fears after a 16-13 loss to the Panthers a week ago and a 13-10 loss at Cleveland in Week 3.
“We’re in the middle of the season, we can’t just say, ‘Okay, we’re going to address it,'” the Packers running back said. josh jacobs Said. “We have to find real answers to our problems. I honestly don’t know what those answers are [are]I think everyone has to dig deeper and believe and give more. I mean, it’s not easy. We can’t survive by doing what we did last year or not, we have to live in the moment.”
That’s where the offensive playcaller, LaFleur, comes in. He has one year left on his contract and new team president Ed Policy, who took over in July, has not yet offered him or general manager Brian Gutekunst an extension, according to sources. Neeti also said that he does not believe in useless coaches or general managers.
If LaFleur thinks he’s coaching for his job, he won’t say so.
“I’ll leave it up to everyone else to decide,” LaFleur said. “I’ll just focus on the day-to-day… I feel like you’re always coaching for everything in this league, you know? It’s just my mentality. It’s always been that way. You can never breathe. You’ve always got to keep pushing. That’s just my mentality and it’s going to be my mentality until they tell me not to coach anymore.”
LaFleur didn’t have much of an answer for why the offense struggled so mightly on Monday. A week ago, they lost perhaps their best playmaker, tight end tucker craftDue to a season-ending knee injury. Against the Eagles, they lost Love’s most targeted receiver, Romeo DoubsFor chest injury in the second part, and in the center elgton jenkins to one broken lower leg,
But that doesn’t explain why he struggled to get much done in the running game, even though that was the centerpiece of LaFleur’s game plan against the Eagles. Jacobs rushed 21 times for 74 yards (3.5-yard average) and scored the only touchdown on a 6-yard run with 5:49 remaining.
“We’re in the middle of the season, we can’t just keep saying, ‘Okay, we’re going to solve this.’ We have to find real answers to our problems. I honestly don’t know what they answer [are]I think everyone has to dig deeper and believe and give more.”
Packers running back Josh Jacobs
“We wanted to try to establish the run game and try to get that going,” LaFleur said. “I thought there were some moments where we did a good job, but ultimately it wasn’t enough. I felt like when we got in those critical moments, it wasn’t necessarily first and second downs, it was more money downs, third downs, fourth downs, where we just played poorly.”
And it doesn’t explain why the Eagles knew what the Packers were going to run on their last real chance — fourth-and-1 with 1:30 left, which the Eagles stuffed and forced Jacobs to fumble.
“He called for it,” Jacobs said. “We called our play. They [said it’s an] ‘Inside area, it’s coming right here.’ So I kind of didn’t want to run right there, but you know…yeah, that’s how it happened.”
According to ESPN Research, Love threw for only 176 yards, and his 4.9 yards per attempt were the lowest in any game of his NFL career as a starter.
When Love was asked how he has been playing lately, he said, “Not very well.”
The Packers (5-3-1) fell from first to third in the NFC North. In all three losses, they have given up 16 or fewer points. New York Jets Is the only other team to have lost multiple times this season by giving up 16 or fewer points.
“Honestly, it’s extremely disappointing,” Packers defensive end Micah Parsons Said. “But it’s just one of those things, like we’ll win together, we’ll lose together, regardless of the outcome, and just being there for our teammates, no matter who’s playing better or which side is playing better. It’s just important that we hold each other up until they step up. When everyone steps up, we’ll be a really good team.”
