Fewer than 30 days. That is all the time Green Bay Packers general manager Brian Gutekunst and head coach Matt LaFleur have to shape their team for 2020. There will be no preseason games and a balance to strike between getting starters necessary practice repetitions and finding out who else can impact the team.
“I think we’re going to have enough opportunity to evaluate these guys fairly,” Gutekunst said. “There’s going to be a lot of opportunities for them. But, again, I think being in games and being able to make those decisions under the kind of pressure that a real game brings with 85,000 in Lambeau, that’s hard to replicate.