Offseason Schedule Set; April 15 More Than Tax Day for Packers

Here are the keys dates for the Green Bay Packers as the football calendar has officially flipped from 2023 to 2024.

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GREEN BAY, Wis. – April 15 is one of the worst days on the calendar for many people. That’s when taxes are due and a big, fat check must be sent to dear old Uncle Sam. However, April 15 will take on a different meaning this year. That’s the first date of the Green Bay Packers’ offseason program – a launching point for a potential Super season for the team.

Here are the dates for Green Bay’s offseason program.

First Day: April 15.

Organized Team Activities: May 20, 21 and 23. May 28, 29 and 31. June 3, 4 and 6.

Minicamp: June 11-13

The only mandatory part of the offseason will be the minicamp. It is scheduled for two days but tends to be cut to two practices and a team-building event.

For the Packers, who have sky-high expectations after their unexpected run to the NFC divisional playoffs last year, this offseason will be a lot different than last offseason, obviously, on the offensive side of the ball with the ascension of quarterback Jordan Love and a skill-position group loaded with potential and production rather than uncertainty.

“We were talking about this as an offensive staff the other day with Adam Stenavich,” coach Matt LaFleur told reporters at the NFL Annual Meeting last week. “Before the draft last year, we didn’t even know who was going to be on our team.

“So, it’s hard to plan and really put together an offense when you don’t know who your tight ends are going to be. You didn’t really know who your other wideouts were going to be. So, there were some holes and to have a lot less and have everything kind of in place, it allows you to plan a little bit better, I think, and be very intentional with your offseason. I do think we’ll have a better plan in place when the guys come back in terms of where we want to take our offense.”

A lot of last season was about figuring things out on the fly, with the fruits of that labor evident during the second half of the season. That won’t be necessary this year.

While there was a big change in the backfield with Josh Jacobs replacing Aaron Jones, the receiver and tight end groups will return intact. With Love having solidified his position and with Christian Watson, Romeo Doubs, Jayden Reed, Dontayvion Wicks, Bo Melton and Malik Heath at receiver and with Luke Musgrave and Tucker Kraft back at tight end, LaFleur will have an abundance of weapons to build around when the team hits the practice field for the first time on May 20.

“There’s certainly some things we can do better in regards to both the run game and in the pass game,” LaFleur said. “You always go through it and you try to be as aware as possible, but there’s so much volume of things.

“There’s certainly some things that we’re going to stop doing that weren’t very effective. That’s always, to me, the constant evolution of your offense. Things change each year. The offseason provides all of us a great opportunity to study other teams and see what they did effectively. There was some good stuff that we studied, and we’ll try to implement some of that stuff into our offense.”

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