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An Open Letter to Matt LaFleur: Don’t make the same mistakes Mike McCarthy did

Hey coach,

First off, I want to say thank you. The culture you have established through two seasons has been exactly what the Green Bay Packers, as a team and and as a franchise, have needed. You’ve brought fresh ideas both on and off the field and it breathed new life into an organization that was growing stale in multiple ways under the previous regime. Packer Nation will be forever in your debt for this.

It is in fact that previous regime in which I wish to discuss with you. As Aaron Rodgers and any player who played multiple seasons under Mike McCarthy can tell you, one of things that doomed the latter part of his tenure and kept the Green Bay Packers from returning to the Super Bowl was loyalty.