Now what do we talk about?

Just kidding, there’s always something to talk about. As the Green Bay Packers’ season came to about as uninspiring an end as you could imagine – especially when you consider their last two games of the regular season – questions about where Matt LaFleur and company go from here started the moment the clock hit zero (really they started the moment Quinyon Mitchell intercepted Jordan Love’s desperation deep ball).

And when the Packers start putting together next year’s roster, it’ll be interesting to see how they go about addressing one of the team’s biggest talking points from this season: their inexperience. The Packers have had one of the youngest rosters in football over the last couple seasons, and there were moments over the last month of the season where that was painfully obvious.

When asked about whether the team needs more veteran leadership next season, LaFleur gave a brief – but somewhat telling – answer.

It sure sounds like Matt LaFleur wants some more veterans on the Packers’ roster next year

After the game, a reporter asked LaFleur whether the Packers need more veterans on the team in 2025.

“We’ll see,” LaFleur said. “I think every year is a little bit different. It’s ultimately about how the collective comes together and how we perform as a unit. As a whole team. I think there’s going to be a lot of time for reflection for that, but I love those guys in that locker room, and I appreciate all they do, how they compete, how they put the work in. And really, I just hurt for those guys.”

On the surface, this sounds like a whole lot of nothing. Maybe it is. But NFL coaches learn how to answer questions without really answering the question, and through that lens, you can almost see the point LaFleur is trying to make. If he didn’t think veteran leadership was a problem, he would have just come out and said that.

Instead, he hit us with the “lots of time to reflect on that” routine.

At the risk of being a prisoner of the moment, that’s at least kind of a message to the Packers’ front office.

And could you really blame him? The two latest examples of the team rolling the dice on veteran leadership are [checks notes] Josh Jacobs and Xavier McKinney, who [checks notes again] were arguably the two most productive players on the team this year.

The good news? They’ll have enough cap space to pull off a few moves like that this offseason, if that’s what they decide to do after all that reflection.