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...

Earlier this week, it was revealed that the Dallas Cowboys requested to interview Green Bay Packers defensive line coach and run game coordinator Demarcus Covington for their open defensive coordinator vacancy. On Friday, the New York Jets announced that they had finished interviewing Covington, along with seven other initial candidates for the job.

The Jets are led by a defensive coach, Aaron Glenn, unlike the Cowboys, but Glenn does not call plays for the defense. Defensive coordinator Steve Wilks held that role until he was fired mid-season and replaced by interim defensive coordinator Chris Harris, who is also up for...

Since we’re still waiting for an answer about whether Matt LaFleur is or isn’t going to be the Green Bay Packers’ next head coach, let’s at least do something productive with our time. One of the biggest questions I get every draft cycle is where NFL draft offensive line prospects have lined up in the past. This isn’t necessarily where they will play at the next level, but it will give us a pretty good sense of the role they’re projected to play.

Based on conversations with scouts I’ve had, the expectation is that this class is actually pretty good...

I agree with many of my APC brethren that there is not a clear upgrade from Matt LaFleur out there at the moment, and that bringing him back is probably, objectively, the correct thing to do.

However, I’m also getting pretty sick of the Green Bay Packers playing like losers. LaFleur is a great play designer, which is why the Packers often build big leads, but as Mike Tyson once said, “Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the face.” When the Packers inevitably get punched in the face, all they do is turtle.

The [nflfastR model’s Win...

With the Packers’ 2025 season now in the books, it’s time to take a look around and see where Packers players ended up on the team’s all-time statistical leaderboards. A minor spoiler: most of the Packers’ offensive climbing had something to do with Tobin Rote. You’ll see what I mean below.

Passing

There was an insane statistical occurrence on the Packers this year: Jordan Love finished the 2025 season exactly tied with Rote for fifth all time in passing yardage. Both have 11,535 yards, the fifth-best total in team history. Love, obviously, should have easily passed Rote, but he missed...

At least we now know what the hangup is in the discussions between the Green Bay Packers and head coach Matt LaFleur. The two sides appear to be some distance apart on the length of the contract, not the average annual salary, with the Packers looking for a shorter-term extension (a year or two) and LaFleur hoping for something in the 5-year range.

Now the question becomes whether the two sides will meet in the middle or if one of them will give in. At this point, LaFleur probably holds more leverage, since he could likely get the deal he’s...

Tom Silverstein of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, one of the best members of the Green Bay Packers’ beat, just wrote an update on where things stand between the Packers and head coach Matt LaFleur, as Green Bay attempts to get a deal done for LaFleur to be the coach of the Packers in 2026 and moving forward. As he put it, “negotiations are dragging.”

Per Silverstein’s sources, the issue “isn’t as much about money as it is length,” which, in my opinion, is a statement that has some merit to it, but is still ultimately about money. Silverstein claims that...

Since we’re all waiting on the news about Green Bay Packers head coach Matt LaFleur and whether he and the team can find a number that makes sense on an extension, I thought I’d make myself useful, take a break from the scrolling and talk about another member of the coaching staff. No, this time it’s not about the inexperienced true assistant pool. In this piece, I want to focus on veteran special teams coordinator Rich Bisaccia, who has 20 years of non-Packers on-field NFL experience, compared to just 27 years for the rest of the coordinators/assistants on the team...

When long-time Green Bay Packers quarterbacks coach Tom Clements (2006-2016, 2022-2024) retired after last season, head coach Matt LaFleur filled the vacancy by hiring Sean Mannion to the role. Mannion, who left Oregon State as a third-round pick and was the Beavers’ all-time passing leader, had previously played for LaFleur in 2017, LaFleur’s one season as the Los Angeles Rams’ offensive coordinator.

Mannion stuck around the league until 2023, and he was hired as a Packers offensive assistant for the 2024 season, his first year coaching. This year, he moved up to being an on-field coach for the first time...

Alright, since we’re all just killing time and refreshing for updates on what will happen with Green Bay Packers head coach Matt LaFleur, I figured I’d open the floor to get people’s predictions on what happens with his future — now five days after the Packers’ brutal choke job against the Chicago Bears in the wild card round.

Name your league-wide insider (who generally get the big news before the local beat, any local beat, at this point), and their story seems to be similar. Whether it’s ESPN’s Adam Schefter, The Athletic’s Dianna Russini or NFL Network’s Ian Rapoport, they...