Gut Reactions: Packers waste great defensive effort against Eagles
Aaron chats with Packers fans worldwide after the team's 10-7 loss to the Philadelphia Eagles.
By PackerAaron
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Starrbrite
November 11, 2025 at 12:58 am
An infuriating loss. I referred to this game as the “LaFluer game”; if he loses, I’m done with him. Love didn’t help the cause and it appears his brain has slipped into his shoes.
…and the Eagles, their rich buy-a-team owner, and their terrible fans can bite it!
Go Packers!!!
Since'75
November 11, 2025 at 06:30 am
You can't buy a team in the NFL like MLB.
Although Gute has been trying lately.
KenEllis
November 11, 2025 at 01:06 am
My gut reaction, listening to his comments, is that Mr. Nagler may be getting close to joining those of us who have concluded that MLF is never getting to, let alone winning, a Super Bowl as coach of the Green Bay Packers.
Probably will take at least another year or two before he contemplates whether the GM responsible for the subpar offensive line (by drafting Myers over Humphrey, taking Morgan in round 1 to play Guard poorly, moving Jenkins to Center, and signing Banks) is also never gonna sniff a Super Bowl while in GB -- unless his old colleagues Schneider in Seattle or Wolf in New England invite him as an observer.
Watching Dallas get a top 20 (top 15?) pick in next year's draft is going to be a real kick in the crotch.
bjb2012sime
November 11, 2025 at 01:20 am
Wow
MLF was touted as an offensive guru but he is failing. There is predictability, overly conservative play calling, and inexplicable decision making. I still haven't gotten over going for it on 4th and 8 last week, that was coaching malpractice. Regarding LaFleur firing at season's end, Kevin Greene said it best, "It is time."
Rhah
November 11, 2025 at 01:23 am
I am so tired of pre-snap penalties from the offense. I don't know who is in charge of making sure everyone knows the rules, but they should be fired. That long pass that was brought back was another critical error by the stupid offense. I tell my friends I have zero confidence in the offense to not fuck it up, and they continue to fuck it up.
Packerpasty
November 11, 2025 at 11:34 am
One problem is MLF and his allegiance to his buddies he’s hired…keeps them on way too long…
SinceLombardi
November 11, 2025 at 05:09 am
You don’t have to be specific to the Eagles game. LaFleur’s Packers maxed out in 2023 against Dallas. There has been nothing since that tells you this is an ascending team.
The Detroit win was probably the result of a team playing game one with me coordinators, and Washington stinks.
Take away 30 minutes in Pittsburgh and it’s very ugly.
You could argue Brian Daboll did better with what he had.
Seven years into MLF and we are always in the league leaders in penalties (23,24 & 25) mistakes, either soft or uninspired play.
I am quite sure that anything less than a strong showing in a divisional round game and MLF and BG will be fired.
It’s not working.
NitschkeFromTheGrave
November 11, 2025 at 05:15 am
The Gut reaction has the same symptoms of two major gas leaks before total catastrophe that is festering and deteriorating. First, I'd like to say Jordo Jordo has regressed in game time skills and decisions but that would be amateurishly misread. The truth is, the lights-out high level play as it turns out may have been laced with a copious amount luck disguised as talent that carried him through the end of the 2023 season which also falsely awarded him a ridiculously undeserved contract. Luck or eye opening skill level has not returned. When luck vanishes truth and reality is uncovered. As this gas leaks and festers it is only second to the gushing pipeline named Matt LaFleur as head coach and a total imposter as a play caller or offensive coordinator.
My Gut is churning, my head is pounding, gas leaks are stinking up the place and there is no reasonable fix for both to save the season, who has a match?
Lphill
November 11, 2025 at 06:17 am
MlF has to go to jump start this team i can no longer watch him on the sidelines looking like a scared rabbit.
Since'75
November 11, 2025 at 06:36 am
Funny how i keep reading that MLF's offense is stale and predictable.
I remember reading the same thing about McCarthy for years.
Back then it was all Rodgers fault, everything was Rodgers fault...lol.
I think we should open up an investigation.
Something tells me the current woes still might be Rodgers fault.
Rodgers....what a loser.
Yes!! That's sarcasm.
Lry
November 11, 2025 at 07:08 am
Jordan Love is NOT a top tier QB and La Fleur is NOT a good play caller let alone head coach. Why did it take so long to fire McCarthy? Same thing is happening again. Enough already! Been watching football forever and so tired of the Packers dragging their feet when it’s obvious what needs to happen. Every phase of the game is lacking in coaching and disciplined performance on the field. We have low standards and neither coaches nor players are held to even those. Lombardi would be ashamed of the product currently called Green Bay Packers that’s put on the field
NitschkeFromTheGrave
November 11, 2025 at 09:28 am
"Jordan Love is NOT a top tier QB" Really? I think I may have heard that before.....Hmmmm.... (Watch the JL White-Knights come to the rescue and attack, LOLOL)
NJ-RICK
November 11, 2025 at 07:47 am
Congrats to the Packer Defense for keeping the high powered Eagles offense to only 10 points. We all know where the problem is, its the offense Line. J Love looks like a dear looking into the headlights. MLF has 8 games to correct the problem starting next week. A loss to the Giants and this team will probably not make the playoffs.
Hoping for a better game next week GPG.
TarynsEyes
November 11, 2025 at 09:49 am
The Eagles are not a high-powered Offense.
Strat
November 11, 2025 at 09:10 am
I was very impressed with the fourth and one call. Same formation penalty that cost them a 22 yard completion earlier, but this time they added a fumble to make sure the Eagles got the ball back. Very thorough.
J. Love still making ridiculous, flat out stupid mistakes. He has gotten worse rather than better since the 23 playoff run. It's still his year to prove himself. Might help if WR's could catch passes that hit them in the hands or on the numbers even, but he compounds it with his inconsistent play.
Well done D.
Go ahead. say it's a long season, they're more than halfway through.
Blizzard
November 11, 2025 at 09:32 am
Hey Aaron. Love your stuff. I do have to ask you though. The crap that we are seeing with MLF is so eerily similar to the final season and a half with MM. ( vanilla, predictable offense, opposing teams calling out Packers plays before the snap) you are hoping that MLF gets it figured out, Did Mike McCarthy get it figured out?
Packerpasty
November 11, 2025 at 11:31 am
Did Mike McCarthy take the Packers to a Superbowl? And should have been two except for Bostick…Mike flatlined in the last couple of years but I’d take him over MLF.
TarynsEyes
November 11, 2025 at 09:37 am
Luckily, they get to play the Giants next week...right?
I've been on many an opposite bandwagon than the majority here for quite some time, and I have to say that I'm sorry for being on the right bandwagon so often. I've been called a non-Packer fan, and some other choice names. However, with that aside, how may here now wish to jump on the bandwagon that simply sees this team through reality eyes.
Is there any point in running down the list of issues this team has ignored to fix, and many here have ignored to accept as real, no. The last two weeks, combined with other games this season, should be enough to prove what this team isn't and will not become under the current, and likely continued maleficence of draft, HC, QB, FO coaching staff has been.
This team was all the rage a few years ago when the Division was lacking competition to this overrated team, but the times have changed and GB is slowly, but surely falling behind. I can honestly say that MIN not signing Rodgers for 1–2 years was a saving grace for GB, as we'd be embedded in last place. Laugh if you need, but Rodgers would have done well in MIN.
Philly is not a powerhouse on Offense, so keep the bravado about the Packers' defense to a minimum, and please, bury the rankings that will convince some that they'd top 5, they aren't. Love is not a top 10 QB, as I said many times, he's good enough to be a 13-18 guy in any week, accept that.
Again, I'm sorry for being right, as this hurts me more than any here can imagine. I don't lose sleep because of the nightmare befalling the Packers because I don't dwell in fantasy, but reality.
Packerpasty
November 11, 2025 at 11:29 am
I’m fairly certain that Rodgers would never have run that last fourth down play, he would have snarled at the sidelines and MLF and called a time out…at least he was football smart which Love doesn’t seem to be…
Since'61
November 11, 2025 at 10:54 am
Another winnable game and solid defensive effort completely wasted by the offense. It’s becoming a weekly occurrence.
Penalties, poor execution, and bad coaching decisions.
Once again the defense deserved a better fate than they received.
There are just no levels of excuses that can allow the offense to continue to play as it has over the last few weeks. There is no longer any point in discussing what went wrong during the game because it is the same every week. Thanks, Since ‘61