The Green Bay Packers’ Fab Four, whose faces should be sculpted into Mount Rush-Punt-Pass-and-Kickmore, don’t even set foot on the field. They are President Mark Murphy, General Manager Brian Gutekunst, Head Coach Matt LaFleur, and Defensive Coordinator Jeff Hafley.
Murphy is a visionary, assembling a dream team of front-office personnel; Gutekunst is a genius (how else do you explain his acquisition of players such as Jordan “Agape” Love, Malik “Whuh Chew Tokken About” Willis, Xavier “I expected to do that” McKinney, et al?); “Professor” LaFleur is a master motivator and game planner; and last but not least, Hafley is the unmad scientist behind a new-approach dominant defense.
And the players (not just Love, Willis, and McKinney) are no slouches, either.
Synergy: “The whole is greater than the sum of its parts.” Greek philosopher Aristotle coined that phrase. You could apply the word (synergy) to The Beatles (the original “Fab Four”) and to certain sports teams, too. As good as they are and as much talent as they have, it’s very dangerous (for the opposition) when a fired-up team such as the 2024 Green Bay Packers has such a strong group of guiders behind them (Murphy, Gutekunst, LaFleur, Hafley, et al) and such a spirit of camaraderie and joie de jouant among themselves.
As you can see for yourself below, even the old Greek philosophers (the aforementioned Aristotle, as well as Plato and Socrates) were Packers fans, thus incontrovertibly proving their sagacity:
Next up is a test against the as-of-now undefeated Minnesota Vikings. May the best team win.