Green Bay Packers head coach Matt LaFleur accepted the bulk of the blame after his team suffered a 30-10 home loss to the Minnesota Vikings on Sunday, a defeat that dropped Green Bay to 6-4 and left the club trailing in the NFC North.

LaFleur was direct in his postgame remarks.

“Certainly, we didn’t have our guys coached up well enough,” LaFleur said.

The Vikings’ defense, coordinated by Brian Flores, generated 12 quarterback hits and eight sacks while forcing four turnovers, repeatedly disrupting the Packers’ protection and limiting quarterback Jordan Love’s opportunities.

LaFleur described the challenge of trying to protect Love on the fly.

“I was trying to rack my brain during the game trying to call anything that could get the ball out of [Love’s] hands in a timely fashion, so I’ve just got to take a look at exactly what happened up front because obviously it wasn’t good,” he said. “And some of those are on the play design … they’re longer developing throws.”

He added that waiting too long to emphasize the quick game proved costly.

“Obviously a bad decision because our quarterback was getting abused, just like he did in the first game. We had called some of that early on and it really wasn’t successful until the second half,” LaFleur added.

The performance echoed Green Bay’s Week 1 loss in Minnesota and underscored ongoing issues along the offensive line.

Love finished 17 of 27 for 220 yards with a touchdown and an interception, but the constant pressure prevented the offense from establishing rhythm until the second half.

The result also carries division consequences. Minnesota improved to 7-2 and sits in a three-way tie for first with the Chicago Bears and Detroit Lions.

Green Bay remains 1.5 games behind and is now 0-3 against the rest of the NFC North after earlier losses to Detroit and Minnesota. The remaining schedule includes a trip to Chicago, a home date with Detroit, and a December meeting with the Buffalo Bills.

LaFleur characterized the afternoon in blunt terms, calling it a “butt whooping” in a “humbling league” and noting that four turnovers create “a recipe for disaster.”

He also stated that the team “didn’t coach well enough and certainly didn’t go out there and execute well enough.”

For a club that had won five of its previous six games and seen Love produce at a high level, the afternoon represented a clear setback.

LaFleur’s willingness to shoulder responsibility for the scheme and preparation leaves the Packers facing the task of correcting their protection issues before the next set of division games arrives.