GREEN BAY, Wis. -- It wasn't a warning so much as a word of caution: Don't try to get Matt LaFleur to say that the Green Bay Packers will finally run his offense.
The Packers' coach, for months, refuted and scoffed at the idea that for the past four years he compromised or conceded to quarterback Aaron Rodgers.
At first, he tried to joke about it.
"I've been hearing that a lot," LaFleur said on March 28 at the NFL owners meetings in Phoenix.
Rodgers hadn't even been traded to the New York Jets yet.