Coming into the year, everyone knew the Green Bay Packers were a young team, especially on the offensive side of the ball.

But, a bevy of talent and explosiveness was supposed to level out said youth and so far, the Packers offense has been anything but. Outside Week 1, of course.

The Packers offense has been downright pitiful ever since the fourth quarter started in Week 2 against the Atlanta Falcons, sans the miraculous Q4 comeback against the New Orleans Saints. It's a unit that has made mistake after mistake – whether it be poor execution, miscommunication, a penalty, or whatever could the hold team back.

And a lot of that stems from the fact the Packers are so damn young on offense. The offense has just three players registered at the age of 27 or older that are currently playing on the field (David Bakhtiari is 32, but he doesn't count since he's on IR). That's obviously a scenario in which a lot of teams aren't involved in unless they are in rebuild mode. Which, there's an argument to be made that the Packers are doing just that – rebuilding.

"I think a lot of our inability to be successful offensively is we've had negative plays, or we have a penalty," Packers head coach Matt LaFleur told reporters Tuesday. "Now, we weren't penalized as much yesterday, but we've been in these get-back-on-track situations and we've had a hard time recovering from that. We have not had success in those, you know, 2nd and 10 or 11+ situations. And then you're stuck in third and long, or, we had a second and 17 yesterday were we throw an interception.

"So, we just got to do a better job of trying to avoid those situations, staying on schedule, even if it's 2nd and nine. That's a hell of a lot better than 2nd and 10+. So I just think there's a lot more out for for this group and we just have to have that urgency."

LaFleur won't use the Packers' youth as an excuse, though. And he shouldn't. But at the same time, it's clear he needs to change up his plan when it comes to week-to-week game planning and play calling. 

He was asked how he balances keeping things simple for the lesser-experienced players, yet, challenging for defensive opponents. This is the NFL, after all, and coaches will quickly pick up on tendencies and philosophies. It's imperative that every single team makes life as difficult as possible for their opponent week-in, week out.

LaFleur's response was far from satisfactory and more than telling as to why the Packers offense has looked worse and worse with each passing week.

"We try to carry over more on a week to week basis, instead of just going a whole new direction based on the team we're playing," said LaFleur. "The more carryover, usually these guys have banked reps at it and you feel that they're a little bit more confident. And sometimes that doesn't always work. But you know, I think all that stuff gets overblown, quite frankly, I think if if we're going out there and we're executing some of the plays that we know are there – I think this doesn't get talked about if we're scoring points, nobody's talking about this. And unfortunately, when you score 13 points in a game, it gets talked about."

Sure, LaFleur is right in the fact that effective execution can make up for a lot of the poor product we've seen, but at the same time, this is a young team. The players aren't executing because they don't have the veteran experience that anchored the roster in previous years. Guys like Aaron Rodgers, Randall Cobb, Allen Lazard, Marcedes Lewis, Robert Tonyan, and more, are all gone. Sure, this is the same system that's been around since 2019, but it's nearly comprised of all-new players. 

There's bound to be issues that come with that. LaFleur also can't let his offense become stale and predictable, either. Ever since the Raiders game ended, he's alluded to how Patrick Graham and co. were one step ahead on multiple occasions.

Well, it's pretty easy to see why if you're repeating the same things on a weekly basis while not adding many wrinkles.

Fortunately, LaFleur will be looking for some new concepts to add over the bye week.

"As far as [what] the approach is, you know, we've got five games that we can really kind of look back at," said LaFleur. "I'm going to study some things around the league and see if there's something that we can steal, to try to find a way to generate specifically on the offensive side of the ball, just generate some some momentum for our offense.

"But I think we just got to look back and take a good hard look at maybe how opponents are seeing us and what teams are doing to us from a defensive perspective that has given us some problems. And maybe we can get in front of some of these things so they don't reoccur."

That's encouraging, but as we all know, actions speak louder than words. LaFleur needs to change his approach up, quick. Because as he said, there are 12 more games left and if the Packers continue to be predictable, it could easily be the longest 12-game stretch of LaFleur's career.