Nick Ripp @Nripp

Here is my stance on Matt LaFleur: He was hired in 2019 on a 4 year contract. In his first 3 seasons his teams won 13 games every year, reaching the NFC Conference Championship twice and earning three 1st round playoff byes. He was rewarded with a 4 year contract extension in 2022. On his second contract his teams won 54% of regular season games. Missed the playoffs one year, was the 7th playoff seed three straight seasons with one total playoff victory. This is a major decline. 2025 specifically showcased several epic collapses which unfortunately became expected as falling apart late became baked into the team identity. I fully thought it was time to move on from Matt LaFleur after the 2025 season. The team performance since the first extension was not good enough. I did not need to answer “who would you hire instead?” to know I didn’t think he was the right guy to lead this team. It’s ok to dump somebody you like if you fell they are not “the one” for you long term without knowing who you will date next on your search for “the one”. The Packers instead pointed at his entire Packers resume, highlighting his early success, in their decision to extend him a second time. To me this the main issue. His early success earned him his first extension - rightfully so. But the measuring stick, in my mind, should be the performance during the extension years. His initial years already “did their job” and should be background consideration instead of once again being the focal argument for extension. Now, when Matt LaFleur was hired only 6 teams per conference made the playoffs each season. On this same standard the Packers would have missed the playoffs in each of his seasons on his second contract. Some don’t like this 6 vs 7 teams comparison. Ok, fine. For me, if you want to look backwards to his early resume success as a measuring stick, then we should apply the same measuring stick to his teams’ recent performance - which would have been 4 straight non-playoff worthy performances every year of the extension period, apples to apples. If you don’t want this comparison, then let’s focus entirely on the second contract performance - which again led to 1 total post season win in 4 years - and set aside the early resume. So to me, using either thought process, it just wasn’t good enough and I didn’t see any reason to expect improvement given the cultural collapses on the field which seem baked deep into the Packers DNA. The Packers, however, decided to reward Matt LaFleur to a second contract extension with an uncertain number of more years, making an uncertain, yet significantly higher, amount more fully guaranteed money. So far, nothing I have seen this 2026 has suggested the Packers made the correct decision to re-invest into Matt LaFleur.

Whenever I see Jimmy Kimmel complaining about President Trump I can't help but recall this video:

@POTUS Here I thought Denver was a lock for the worst trade of 2022.

@SenatorDevin @SpeakerVos @SenMarklein @repborn For the people? Let’s make it clear - neither you nor the current Republican Party are “For the people”. You are for the party, or just against whatever the Democrats suggest. As a Republican I am fearful your actions will cost us seats in the next election

@SenatorKapenga Majority of WI is in favor of legalization, what happened to doing what the people want? You don’t have to agree with all his policies, but you can’t reject them all just because he is a different party. I’m a republican and can see you and the party are flat out wrong on this.

@nickdapick36 Had TJ Watt right in our hands. Instead we end up with King who has been horrible since the start. Costly today.

The one thing that’s hard for me to stomach is flagrant stupidity. There are 8 seconds left. How in God’s name does this dude Kevin King - No.20 on the @packers y’all — allow Scotty Miller to get BEHIND him. I mean...how DUMB can you be????

Packers’ failure to draft a WR was a mistake, but it’s only a continuation of the neglect acmepackingcompany.com/2020/5/8/21251…

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@NFLFootballOps That’s absolute garbage NFL. You will lose a lot of viewers, I don’t care what section of the rule book you refer to, it’s a terrible call/rule.

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