{"id":362118,"date":"2025-12-21T16:31:06","date_gmt":"2025-12-21T16:31:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/362118\/"},"modified":"2025-12-21T16:31:06","modified_gmt":"2025-12-21T16:31:06","slug":"matt-lafleur-we-were-in-control-most-of-the-game-disappointing-not-to-finish-the-job","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/362118\/","title":{"rendered":"Matt LaFleur: We were in control most of the game, disappointing not to finish the job"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Packers head coach Matt LaFleur said after Saturday night\u2019s overtime loss to the Bears that it hurts to suffer a loss like that.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve got to process what happened, how that happened and try to find ways for us to not put ourselves in these tough situations,\u201d LaFleur said. \u201cThe majority of the game I felt like we were pretty much in control of the game, and certainly it\u2019s extremely disappointing when you can\u2019t finish the job.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Packers led 16-6 with two minutes left in the fourth quarter, only to have the Bears kick a field goal, recover an onside kick, score a touchdown to force overtime, and then score another touchdown in overtime to win 22-16.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt does hurt,\u201d LaFleur said. \u201cThat\u2019s the reality of it. It should hurt because these guys, all of us, we put a lot into this thing. You had opportunities. You\u2019re up two scores late in the game, and unfortunately it flipped pretty quick.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Packers will still make the playoffs if they win their final two games, and LaFleur said they just need to get back to work.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s football. You\u2019ve got to stay resilient,\u201d LaFleur said. \u201cYou continue to fight, and that\u2019s what our guys will do.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Packers head coach Matt LaFleur said after Saturday night\u2019s overtime loss to the Bears that it hurts to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":362119,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-362118","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl","8":"tag-nfl","9":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=362118"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362118\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/362119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=362118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=362118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=362118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}