The Green Bay Packers are working to finalize a contract extension for head coach Matt LaFleur and general manager Brian Gutekunst according to ESPN’s Rob Demovsky. Both LaFleur and Gutekunst were headed into the final year of their deals.
All signs pointed to this outcome after Packers president Ed Policy, LaFleur and Gutekunst were spotted together Thursday night at the American Club in Kohler, Wisconsin. They discussed the future, and all are working to get something done to keep the trio intact.
The Packers have gone 76-40-1 in the regular season under LaFleur and have made the playoffs in six of his seven seasons. But they have not reached the Super Bowl in that time and have not been to a conference championship game since the 2020 season, the second of back-to-back appearances in LaFleur’s first two years.
Gutekunst has worked for the Packers since 1999 and has been their general manager since 2018. He helped hire LaFleur before the start of the 2019 season and helped orchestrate several organization-altering moves during his time as GM, including drafting quarterback Jordan Love in 2020, trading franchise icon Aaron Rodgers in 2023 and landing Micah Parsons in last summer’s blockbuster trade with the Dallas Cowboys.
The Packers’ season ended in disappointing fashion last Saturday night when they squandered an 18-point lead in a 31-27 loss to the rival Chicago Bears in the NFC wild-card round. Multiple high-profile Packers players, led by Parsons, publicly endorsed LaFleur in the days after the season-ending loss.
