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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ExpatPacker" data-source="post: 1090629" data-attributes="member: 5535">The Packers Board is risk-averse.  Again and again, they make conservative decisions with their HC rather than taking a chance when the situation calls for it.The 2014 playoff collapse in Seattle was a turning point.  It changed the team.  The Packers chose to retain Mike McCarthy.  The  Packers were mediocre at best after that.Now in 2025, the Packers collapse again.  25 points in the 4th quarter, missed FGs and Extra Points, lack of adjustment at halftime.  The Packers chose to extend Lafleur rather than moving on from him.  Losses like that are not simply forgotten.Look at what just happened with Josh Allen against Denver.  Many are saying, and rightly so IMO, that the Bills' window to make the SB may have pretty much closed.  Losses like that devastate a team.There is a psychological element here.  There have been too many late-game collapses under Lafleur.  I have no confidence that it will change.  But the Packers don't want to take chances and they have not sniffed a SB for the last 15 years.Lafleur is a good coach but he has proven not to be up to the task in the playoffs.</blockquote>

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