The Green Bay Packers insisted coach Matt LaFleur to a contract extension this season, quelling rumors that the club could part ways with the man in charge after seven seasons.
Starting linebacker Jordan Love is thrilled with the team’s decision to move forward with the only coach he’s known in his six-year career.
“Yeah, it was great. Like you mentioned, that’s been my head coach since I got here, that’s the coach that put me in,” Love said Wednesday, via WFRV’s Kyle Malzahn . “So being able to keep Matt around is great. I’m really happy about that. I think anytime in the NFL — I’ve done it in college — where the coaches leave and you’re in a new system, it’s tough. It’s a lot to be able to learn a new system, new concepts.
“So for a quarterback to be able to stay in the same system and keep the same concepts, it definitely helps me and my teammates to be able to hit the ground running when we get to OTAs and just build on what we’ve done the past few years.