GREEN BAY — If there was one overarching theme in the days and weeks that followed the Green Bay Packers’ season-ending loss to the San Francisco 49ers in the NFC Championship Game four months ago, it was undeniably this: Head coach Matt LaFleur could not wait to get back into his Lambeau Field office/Xs and Os laboratory and start working on how Year 2 of his offensive scheme would look.
The rookie coach had created an amalgamation of his own scheme and some holdover concepts from the system of his predecessor, Mike McCarthy, and the results were mixed.