-- Matt LaFleur is the new head coach of the Green Bay Packers. That fact became clear -- not official -- Monday evening.

He sports the new face in the organization who could help jumpstart a complete turnaround in operations and get the Packers back to their winning ways; winning ways that seem like a foreign concept after consecutive years of missing the playoffs.

But LaFleur's biggest goal isn't just getting back to the playoffs. Playoff berths won't help his legacy culminate in one worth immortalizing.

Winning championships, however, and etching his name in team lore, will.

It's a tall task for the 39-year-old LaFleur, who now becomes the second-youngest coach in team history. Curly Lambeau coached his first game at age 21 -- that's a record that'll probably never be touched.

But this week, the Packers took the first step in the right direction by hiring on LaFleur, who is a product of the Mike Shanahan coaching tree.

LaFleur served under Shanahan and his son, Kyle Shanahan, with the Washington Redskins and helped engineer Robert Griffin III's impressive rookie season in 2012 as the team's quarterbacks coach for four years.

He was Atlanta Falcons quarterback Matt Ryan's position coach for two seasons while Kyle was their offensive coordinator. It was the third time the pair had shared a staff together. LaFleur also helped coach Ryan to an MVP season in 2016 and Jared Goff to his breakout season a year later with the Los Angeles Rams as the offensive coordinator.

LaFleur worked closely under Sean McVay in Los Angeles, and it's believed that McVay played a significant role in the Packers lobbying for him, according to Tom Silverstein of PackersNews.com.

It's clear that the Packers' sample size in searching for their next coach was mostly made up of offensive-minded coaches, and while LaFleur may have been the better-suited candidate, the ultimate test will be how well he meshes with Aaron Rodgers.

The Packers' franchise cornerstone and starting quarterback has had his fair share of reported disputes with LaFleur's predecessor, Mike McCarthy, in the past. Over the course of 13 seasons, less than a handful of disagreements have somehow fueled the narrative that Rodgers is some uncoachable reincarnation of Ryan Leaf.

LaFleur will be just four years Rodgers' senior by December. Having a younger, more relatable voice in his ear could be beneficial for Rodgers, who will turn 36 in 2019.

What would've been the biggest task for any coach the Packers brought aboard was getting Rodgers to buy into whatever he was preaching. Rodgers has his own ideas on how he wants the offense to operate, and presumably, LaFleur will have his own.

It's critical that the two bounce ideas off of each other, and it could be detrimental to the team's overall success if they don't. Thankfully, it's unlikely that either one of President and CEO Mark Murphy or general manager Brian Gutekunst would follow through with the hiring of LaFleur without any semblance of input from Rodgers.

LaFleur's situation with the Tennesee Titans in 2018 was far from ideal, thanks to a plethora of injuries -- including one to Marcus Mariota that caused him to miss multiple games, including the season finale that was to determine the winner of the AFC South.

If anyone can look past his porous circumstances in Tennesee, his resume is certainly intriguing. He's not only earned immediate endorsement from a number of personalities but former players as well in the few hours that the news has been available.

"I think Matt LaFleur can get the run game going in Green Bay like we haven't seen in recent memory," Thomas told "Wilde and Tausch" on ESPN Milwaukee earlier this month. "Because of how he teaches the wide zone and because of the things he's learned from Kyle Shanahan and Sean McVay, who in my opinion, are two of the guys everyone in the NFL respects from an offensive mind standpoint.

"He understands how to get the most out of all of his players and how it fits well with a quarterback that can move, that can threaten the edges, that can threaten the bootlegs."

Thomas noted that Rodgers would be the perfect component to LaFleur's proposed scheme. Since the Titans ran a west coast-style offense, there wouldn't need to be too much of a schematic adjustment while making the transition to Green Bay. Most of the verbiage that Rodgers and co. have grown accustomed to could still be intact.

If the Packers want to be flying high a year from now, a lot of that success will be dependent on the new coach-quarterback duo in town. It could either lead them to glory or take a nosedive into the pavement.