Story byJustis MosquedaSat, January 10, 2026 at 8:52 PM UTC·2 min readAs ESPN’s Adam Schefter has reported throughout the week, the Green Bay Packers and Matt LaFleur both want to get an extension done to keep LaFleur as the head coach of Green Bay. According to Schefter, the issue is money, which is concerning, considering the team has already been near the lowest-spend clubs in the league for assistants during the LaFleur era, per conversations I’ve had with sources in the agent and coaching worlds (yes, I know they paid Rich Bisaccia, but that does not make an entire coaching pool). Now, NFL Network’s Ian Rapoport is backing Schefter’s reporting, stating that the two sides will talk contract after the year, “with the mutual goal of extending his contract.” Rapoport added, “Yet there is one truth that should not be discounted: LaFleur is not coaching for his job tonight, sources say.”AdvertisementAdvertisementAdvertisementI was told that an extension for general manager Brian Gutekunst could have gotten done this offseason, but that the Packers wanted to announce extensions for both Gutekunst and LaFleur together. (I could not get information on why Green Bay and LaFleur didn’t have an extension in hand this offseason.)Here’s how Rapoport explained the situation:But the entire plan for the Packers had been for the coach’s contract to have two years left when a new CEO took over, so he could process and examine for one entire season and make a full decision when that season ended.
