Matt LaFleur is incomes the ire of a number of of his Inexperienced Bay Packers gamers early in coaching camp.
On Tuesday, LaFleur punished offensive sort out Rasheed Walker for his altercation with defensive finish Kingsley Enagbare.
Nevertheless, probably the most fascinating interplay of the day got here between LaFleur and tight finish Tucker Kraft. Per Matt Schneidman of The Athletic, LaFleur called out Kraft for 2 questionable fumbles in the course of the first week of follow.
Each “fumbles” got here after the play was over or when the ball fell out of bounds.
“Actually, everyone knows what sort of participant Tucker Kraft is and will be,” LaFleur stated. “He can’t enable Evan Williams to succeed in round and punch a ball out, so it’s difficult everyone and hopefully that makes us that significantly better.”
The third-year tight finish took challenge with LaFleur calling him out in entrance of the media and blamed the teaching workers for implementing follow guidelines that made it simple for offensive gamers to fumble.
“I’d say numerous the occasions — there’s sure guidelines you play with in follow, like simply letting the protection punch repeatedly,” Kraft stated. “You’re not allowed to stiff-arm. I suppose all I’ve are excuses. Sure, I’m engaged on not fumbling the ball in follow.”
Schneidman stated Kraft answered the query with a tone of sarcasm. Kraft was pissed off that he could not defend the ball by stiff-arming a defender attempting to poke the ball from his undefended arm.
Kraft acknowledged that in follow, he has to “play by the foundations” LaFleur makes and is attempting to work on having a “sure sir, no sir” perspective together with his head coach. He then made a imprecise reference a couple of “bus tremendous” and accused LaFleur of throwing him underneath the bus in entrance of the media.
Schneidman believes the tight finish may be calling for Inexperienced Bay to tremendous LaFleur after his discouraging quote Tuesday morning.
“So sure, the Packers’ third-year tight finish may be calling for his head coach to be fined — not by the league, in fact, however by the group — for what he perceived as throwing him underneath the bus,” Schneidman wrote. “Is Kraft being critical about fining LaFleur?
“In all probability not. Is he peeved LaFleur referred to as him out? It positive looks like it.”
LaFleur would possibly do higher to have a dialog with Kraft earlier than dragging his title into information conferences with reporters. It is clear Tucker would not see eye-to-eye with LaFleur about fumbles.
It is a good reminder to these getting overly excited or nervous studying follow stories that what occurs at follow ought to be taken with a grain of salt.
Most certainly, Tucker goes to be tremendous.
