GREEN BAY, Wis. – When the Green Bay Packers visit the San Francisco 49ers on Sunday, it’s not just a highly anticipated early season matchup between NFC Super Bowl contenders and a rematch of the 2019 conference championship game and another game pitting a coaching mentor against his protégé.
It’s also a game between the team Aaron Rodgers currently plays for and one that tried to pry him away during the offseason (8:20 p.m., ET, NBC).
If there’s tension between Packers coach Matt LaFleur and his former boss, Kyle Shanahan, LaFleur wouldn’t let on when asked Wednesday about the state of their relationship.