In the press conference leading up to the College Football Playoff National Championship, Indiana head coach Curt Cignetti was asked whether he would ever leave for an NFL job, despite Cignetti having a $15 million buyout (cost to poach) and $93 million in guarantees in his most recent extension. Obviously, Cignetti was never going to say, “Yeah, I’d leave college sports,” ahead of the biggest game of his career, but his response was interesting.

He said, “I’m not an NFL guy. I made that decision a long time ago,” which is a pretty boilerplate statement. Then, he brought up the...

The all-star game slate starts this week as the American Bowl began practices on Sunday. After two practices and a walkthrough, the American Bowl will be broadcast on Thursday, January 22nd, on NFL Network at 7 pm CT. The game will be coached by a mostly veteran staff, as Brian Billick’s Warhawks will be taking on Mike Smith’s Guardians.

I wanted to know who the draftable prospects are who are competing in this game, instead of the East-West Shrine Bowl or Senior Bowl later on down the line. So here’s who I found in the 256 prospects on the [consensus...

Hidden in the reporting from the Athletic’s Dianna Russini and Matt Schneidman on the Green Bay Packers bringing back head coach Matt LaFleur is this quote: “In their recent meetings, [president and CEO Ed] Policy didn’t mandate LaFleur make changes with his staff, and a source said neither [general manager Brian] Gutekunst nor [executive vice president/director of football operations Russ] Ball would, either.” If that reporting is true, then staff changes won’t be forced upon LaFleur and probably weren’t a big part of contract talks, which ended up lasting seven days from the Packers’ loss to the Chicago Bears until...

Green Bay Packers fans saw their team bomb out of the playoffs last Saturday, giving up 25 fourth-quarter points to the Chicago Bears in a brutal 31-27 loss. With that result, the Bears advanced to this weekend’s Divisional Playoffs, where they face a Los Angeles Rams team that is, in the eyes of many NFL analysts, the best team in the NFL.

The Rams had to scrape and claw their way to a win in their own Wild Card game, however, scoring a late touchdown to defeat the Carolina Panthers 34-31 on the road. That game saw those two teams...

It has long been wondered if new Green Bay Packers president and CEO Ed Policy would change his stance on the organization’s structure. Before 2018, the year Brian Gutekunst replaced Ted Thompson as general manager, the head coach reported to the general manager, who in turn reported directly to the president and CEO.

Many speculated that Policy wanted to reinstall that system, rather than the one they currently have, where both the head coach and general manager report directly to the president and CEO, separately.

And it’s possible that the Packers wanted that structure, but [according to the *Milwaukee Journal...

After a few days of drama, the deal is done to ensure that Matt LaFleur will remain the head coach of the Green Bay Packers. LaFleur and the franchise, led by President/CEO Ed Policy, have agreed to a contract extension that will keep him in that role for the foreseeable future.

LaFleur’s previous contract was set to expire after the 2026 season, but NFL teams rarely allow their head coaches to operate as a lame-duck on the final year of their deal. Policy said as much in 2025, suggesting that a decision would be made one way or another on...

Green Bay Packers fans will have to wait until Sunday of the NFL Divisional Playoffs to see if the Chicago Bears’ season comes to an end. Chicago hosts the Los Angeles Rams in the final game of Divisional weekend, with Saturday instead featuring both #1 seeds in action against their conferences’ #6 teams.

First up is the AFC, where the top-seeded Denver Broncos host Josh Allen and the Buffalo Bills. Then it’s yet another NFC West matchup, with the rested Seahawks welcoming in the San Francisco 49ers.

The AFC game is not a rematch of a regular season game from...

According to NFL Network’s Tom Pelissero, Green Bay Packers defensive coordinator Jeff Hafley “has emerged as a frontrunner” for the Miami Dolphins’ head coaching vacancy. This shouldn’t be much of a surprise, considering that Hafley is one of the hottest names on the coaching market. As of now, he’s been requested to interview or has interviewed for six of the eight head coaching openings in the league.

Miami has already pecked away at Green Bay this offseason, as they hired general manager Jon-Eric Sullivan from the Packers to run their front office. Since Sullivan got the job, [the team has...

Well, we’re out, but that doesn’t mean we’re not still interested, and if you’re a Green Bay Packer fan, I think you should have some clear rooting interests in the remaining teams. The Packers have been around for so very long that they’ve had some kind of big moment, for good or ill, against almost everyone, especially in the NFC. And so, this weekend, you can safely be invested in basically every game. For instance:

Buffalo Bills at Denver Broncos, Saturday, 3:30 Central

Screw the Broncos, who defeated the Packers in the 1997 Super Bowl, and who were the opponents...

A week ago,t he Packers were in the playoffs. Today, their attention is on the 2026 season.

Who’s going to be a part of that 2026 team? Not everyone from 2025 can or will come back, and a few of the Packers’ biggest names are in the danger zone due to their high cap numbers for next season. Over the next week or so, I’m going to take a look at a few of the potential cap casualties in Green Bay, starting with edge rusher Rashan Gary.

The Packers selected Rashan Gary with the 12th overall pick in the 2019...

The NFC Wildcard game between the Chicago Bears and the Green Bay Packers evolved into a true coaching clinic, a legendary chess match orchestrated by Bears offensive coordinator Ben Johnson. His layered play-calling and masterful conditioning of the Packers’ defense ultimately led to the game-winning touchdown.

Johnson’s first move was a calculated test of the Packers’ defensive philosophy. In the first quarter, he unveiled a specific “wide bunch” formation positioned to the field side—the wider portion of the field.

The formation inherently threatened the flat and stressed the two deepest defensive backs on that side. Crucially, the Packers’ defense responded...

As it stands now, it sure seems like we’re in the middle of a staring contest between Green Bay Packers president/CEO Ed Policy and Matt LaFleur’s agent, Trace Armstrong of Athletes First. At this point, if Armstrong, one of the bigger agents on the coaching side of things in the industry, doesn’t have a number that another team would be willing to pay, he wouldn’t be doing his job — as we’re now six days removed from the Packers’ season-ending loss.

Per Tom Silverstein of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, “The debate between the Packers and LaFleur’s agent isn’t as much...