The Green Bay Packers have announced a lucrative deal with 22-year-old star player Daniel, who will be joining the team.
Based in Green Bay, Wisconsin, the Packers are an NFL team competing in the NFC North division. Established in 1919, they are the third-oldest franchise in the league. Unique as the only non-profit, community-owned major league sports team in the U.S., the Packers have been playing their home games at Lambeau Field since 1957 and hold the record for the most wins in NFL history.
Founded by Earl “Curly” Lambeau and George Whitney Calhoun, the team traces its roots to semi-professional teams in Green Bay dating back to 1896. From 1919 to 1920, the Packers competed against other semi-pro teams in Wisconsin and the Midwest before joining the American Professional Football Association, now the NFL, in 1921. They played part of their home games in Milwaukee from 1933 until 1995, when enhancements to Lambeau Field made it more advantageous to remain in Green Bay. Despite being the smallest major league sports market in North America, Forbes ranked the Packers as the 27th-most-valuable sports franchise in the world in 2019, valued at $2.63 billion.
Matt LaFleur explains his decision to promote Connor Lewis to assistant QBs coach.
The Matt LaFleur era has seen the Green Bay Packers fully embrace the use of data to help inform in-game decision-making. In these last three years, nobody else in the building has been more responsible for keeping the head coach aware of the probabilities affecting his gameday decisions than Connor Lewis.
Few people outside the building really know what Lewis has been doing for the Packers for the last few years. Since being hired by Mike McCarthy in 2016, he has bounced around to a handful of different positions, spending several years as a Football Technology Analyst. He then took on new titles the last two seasons, working as an offensive quality control coach in 2020 and holding the position of special teams assistant/game management specialist last season.
Now, Lewis is the Packers’ assistant quarterbacks coach, a promotion that LaFleur discussed during an interview session with media on Wednesday at the 2022 NFL Combine. But to understand why he is moving into that role, one must understand what he has done the past few years.
Leave a Reply