Questions the Packers must address about their offense during the bye week
With the bye week providing a chance to step back and evaluate, the Packers have several matters to address regarding their offense.
After nine grueling games, the bye week has arrived for the Green Bay Packers. With it, their players will get some needed time off while the coaching staff can dive into the game film and determine what adjustments to make for the second half of the season.
Just don't ask Matt LaFleur about it.
"We've got a lot of projects we're going to work on," LaFleur said of his plans for the bye week. "I think a lot of times it gets a little overblown. We're always on top of the self-scout and what we got to do."
LaFleur has a point. He and his staff do an admirable job of game planning week to week, especially when they have to account for significant injuries. The Packers enter most games with a significant coaching advantage, even against some of the NFL's elite teams.
Still, like every team, the Packers can't catch every schematic flaw or problematic tendency during a given game week. The bye will allow them to identify more of those concerns and address them, in some instances for the first time this season.
Some issues have nothing to do with coaching but will similarly benefit from the extra rest. Football generally awards the teams most able to handle attrition, and the bye provides the rare opportunity to simply heal and rehabilitate.
So, with all that said, what questions do the Packers need to address about their offense during the bye?
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