Packers GM’s Job Security Takes Massive Hit After Eagles Loss

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Green Bay Packers GM Brian Gutekunst is reportedly not he hot seat

Green Bay Packers head coach Matt LaFleur may not be the only one who’s feeling the heat after Monday’s underwhelming 10-7 loss to the Philadelphia Eagles.

The Athletic’s Matt Schneidman reported after the game that LaFleur could be coaching for his job over Green Bay’s final eight games — something the46-year-old coach addressed with reporters after the loss.

“I’ll leave that for everybody else to decide,” LaFleur said of his job security, via The Athletic. “I’ll just focus on the day-to-day. … I feel like you’re always coaching for everything in this league, you know?

“That’s just my mindset. It’s always been that way. You can’t ever exhale. You got to always be pushing. That’s just my mindset and that will be my mindset ’til they tell me not to coach anymore.”

While LaFleur may publicly downplay any concern over being fired, that’s likely not the case behind closed doors.

LaFleur has a 72-36-1 record with five playoff appearances and three division titles in six-plus seasons, but the Packers are 0-2 in NFC Championship Games, the team hasn’t made it past the divisional round of the playoffs since 2021, and fans are getting unruly about the team only being the No. 7 seed in the NFC right now.

GM Brian Gutekunst Reportedly On Hot Seat

GettyGreen Bay Packers GM Brian Gutekunst and head coach Matt LaFleur both could lose their jobs at the end of the 2025 season

Though general manager Brian Gutekunst arrived in Green Bay a year before LaFleur did, most consider the two joined at the hip given Gutekunst fired Mike McCarthy during his first season and hand-picked LaFleur as his replacement.

With LaFleur struggling to prove he’s more than a slightly above-average NFL head coach, some consider his failures Gutekunst’s failures too, and according to Pro Football Talk’s Mike Florio, if LaFleur goes at the end of the year, so too could Gutekunst.

“There’s one person with the ultimate power to make the decision (to fire LaFleur), and new Packers president Ed Policy made it clear in June that, for both LaFleur and GM Brian Gutekunst, 2025 will be an important year,” Florio wrote.

“Their contracts run through 2026. Policy said they would not get new deals until after the current season. Policy also downplayed the idea that either LaFleur or Gutekunst would work as lame ducks next year, saying such an approach ‘creates a lot of issues.’ So it likely will be either new deals or pink slips.”

Packers Still Have Time to Turn Season Around

While it’s tough to argue the optics mustering only 13 points against the Carolina Panthers and seven points against the Eagles in back-to-back losses, things aren’t nearly as bad for the Packers as some have made it out to be.

Green Bay currently occupies the seventh playoff spot in the NFC, but the team is just a half-game behind the Detroit Lions and Chicago Bears, who are tied for the NFC North lead at 6-3.

The Packers have two games left against the Bears and one against the Lions, so if the offense can fix its issues, Green Bay can make up ground quickly and potentially vie for the division lead and a top-four playoff seed.

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