The Green Bay Packers’ list of things to fix this offseason just got longer, except the latest issue to come to light has more to do with time management than anything else.
According to a recent Twitter post from NFL Data Analyst Tom Bliss, Matt LaFleur is one of the worst head coaches at calling unnecessary timeouts.
Bliss, the manager of football ops data science for the NFL, compiled the data on timeout usage between 2018-2022. Each timeout was put into one of five categories: time-saving defense, time-saving offense, missed challenges, unnecessary defense, and unnecessary offense.