Earlier this season I wrote about all the reasons Matt LaFleur deserved to win the coach of the year award. In that post, I also detailed the argument against LaFleur for COTY:
Really, the case against should be that when faced with a bottom of the league special teams and middle of the league defense at the end of last season, LaFleur blinked. He promoted an internal special teams’ coach to coordinator and hired a familiar face as defensive coordinator.
In the end, that flaw turned out to be fatal. There were plenty of other reasons for the loss, and we’ll go over them here, but put any competent coach in charge of the special teams’ unit and Green Bay is onto its third straight championship game right now.