Matt LaFleur questions poor Packers offense in testy press conference They whipped us. They manhandled us

Matt LaFleur questions poor Packers offense in testy press conference They whipped us. They manhandled us

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The Packers played one of their worst halves of football in recent memory. The offense mustered just three points, the beneficiary of a first-drive interception by the defense, and had only two total yards of offense in the first half against the Lions on "Thursday Night Football."Coach Matt LaFleur was asked about what could cause that to happen, and before the question could be finished, LaFleur had begun his response."We got our a kicked," LaFleur said. "If I knew, it wouldn't have happened. That's a BS question."The Packers managed to make the score more respectable in the second half, ultimately scoring 20 points, but fell to Detroit 34-20 to drop to second in the division behind the first-place Lions.MORE: There were a lot of i sues that piled up for Green Bay. For starters, left tackle David Bakhtiari was placed on the injured reserve before the game, with speculation that he could mi s the remainder of the season. Without Jordan Love's blind-side blocker Tony Dungy Jersey and a stout lineman for Aaron Jones in the run game, there was little the team could do to push back a ferocious Detroit defensive line, even when it wasn't blitzing."It wasn't good enough. They whipped us. They manhandled us," LaFleur said when asked why the team couldn't protect against four-man pre sures. "Again, if I knew the answer to that, it wouldn't have happened."Love finished with decent, if unspectacular, numbers from the outing. He completed 23-of-36 pa s attempts for 246 yards with a touchdown and two interceptions. He also rushed twice, scoring once.But the biggest i sues on offense came in the running game and with Love handling pre sure. Chasing a large deficit for most Chaz Green Jersey of the game, the Packers largely abandoned the running game, with Aaron Jones and AJ Dillon each tallying just five carries, the former for 18 yards and the latter for 11. Love rushed twice for a lo s of two yards. He was also sacked five times for a lo s of 43 yards."It's hard throwing on your back. We've got to protect him better, we've got to look at some of the things we're asking our guys to do," LaFleur said.MORE: Chasing that large deficit was also due in no small part to the offense. Green Bay's offense went three-and-out on half of its six first-half drives. One non-three-and-out was an interception on the first play of the drive, effectively a one-and-out. The next was a first down granted only by a defensive penalty, but the offense stalled after that. The final was the half-ending drive that ended when Love was sacked two plays after the offense's first real first down.LaFleur explained that the offense's inability to give the defense a chance to rest was a contributing factor in the defense's first-half struggles, where it gave up 27 points to put Green Bay in an early 27-3 hole."It was very humbling and sometimes that happens, but we can't continue to go backwards. We keep going backwards from third-and-long situations. We knew they were going to be a challenge to run the football against, they've done a nice job with that," LaFleur said. "We had some run-pa s options, some can plays and give credit to them, they did a good job because when we threw it we weren't very effective throwing the football either so or at least early on, I think as the game went on, we were able to get some stuff going but obviously it was way too little, too late."LaFleur was asked whether the offense had considered going back to the two-minute offense that led to the succe s coming back against the Saints, but he said that would not ultimately fix the i sues for the Packers. Ultimately, Green Bay has fallen into nearly insurmountable holes in back-to-back weeks.The Packers made an improbable comeback in Week 3 against the Saints. That bid came up well short in Week 4."At some point, we've got to try to get a normal offense going," LaFleur said. "I think that's something that we'll take a good hard look at over the course of the next 10 days, over the weekend, trying to find the ways to when it's not going right, how do you flip the momentum, how do you get it going in your favor, but it just give credit to them, they've got a good defense, they fly around, they're very physical and Alan Faneca Jersey they play really hard so they just they did a nice job. They out-competed us and out-executed us tonight."
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