When it comes to the performance of an NFL player, let alone an entire NFL team, comments made in postgame media conferences are unlikely to be of much significance. What a coach tells a player, or a team, in private matters more.
That said, this is the NFL, a game of proverbial inches where control freak coaches try to seize every small advantage they can in every facet of the job. Controlling the noise is one of them.
So maybe it’s worth contrasting how two coaches – Green Bay’s Matt LaFleur and Chicago’s Matt Nagy – handled things recently when discussing their struggling, yet still developing, young quarterbacks, Jordan Love and Justin Fields respectively.