No, the Green Bay Packers’ 27-2 loss at the Denver Broncos on Sunday night wasn’t just a meaningless preseason game. “We’re going to have to … take a long, hard look in the mirror,” coach Matt LaFleur said.
Maybe it was the fatigue of a few days in the Mile High City that were capped by playing a night game.Maybe it was the byproduct of playing backups against starters.Green Bay Packers coach Matt LaFleur isn’t one for making excuses. And he wasn’t about to offer any after seeing his team get squashed like a big on a windshield during Sunday night’s preseason game at the Denver Broncos.
“Certainly, I was hoping our guys would come out with more strain, effort, grit after kind of getting humbled the other day in practice. And then to have it happen again not where you want to be.” Those were the critical sentences. Winning and losing is irrelevant in August. Winning and losing is especially irrelevant when you put your backups on the field against another team’s starters.The $220 million quarterback hasn’t torn apart Green Bay’s defense at training camp and didn’t fare any better against the Broncos on Friday.
Certainly, to borrow one of LaFleur’s favorite words, he is a bit worried about his team’s trajectory. It will be a gut check – and a pride check – this week with the Baltimore Ravens coming to Green Bay for a joint practice on Thursday and a preseason game on Saturday.
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