GREEN BAY — Matt LaFleur stopped short Monday of flat-out saying he’d made a mistake.
But the Green Bay Packers first-year head coach’s decision to have the team travel to the West Coast on Saturday this time around — one day before Sunday’s crucial NFC showdown with the San Francisco 49ers in Santa Clara, California — said it for him: That having his team go to California on the Friday before its Nov. 3 matchup with the Los Angeles Chargers wasn’t the right call.
Give the rookie coach this much: He admits when he’s wrong and he does something about it — even if the impact of getting to Southern California a day earlier than usual was probably negligible in the grand scheme of the team’s worst performance of the season.