It looks like the coaching cycle for the 2026 offseason will not be gaining yet another sacrifice after Wild Card weekend.
After the Green Bay Packers lost a heartbreaker to the Chicago Bears, relinquishing a huge lead late in the game and giving up the chance to upset their NFC North foe on the road, there were a lot of questions swirling around the fate of Matt LaFleur. The seventh-year head coach just got dealt another blow in the postseason, failing to wash off the aura of a choking squad for another year.
His firing could've created a coaching vacancy vacuum that impacted the Detroit Lions inadvertently: the Packers could've landed a veteran, winning coach in John Harbaugh, leading to another squad poaching the perfect OC candidate in Mike McDaniel from Detroit's hands.