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Packers coach Matt LaFleur, Falcons' Arthur Smith trade good-natured barbs

GREEN BAY — The Green Bay Packers and Atlanta Falcons won’t face each other this season, unless it’s in the playoffs. So the back-and-forth between Packers coach Matt LaFleur and Falcons coach Arthur Smith will — eventually — be put on hold.

But for a few fun days during training camp, the two friends traded good-natured barbs over their respective appearances. The two worked together with the Tennessee Titans in 2018 — LaFleur as the offensive coordinator, Smith as the tight ends coach — and when LaFleur got the Packers’ job in 2019, Titans coach Mike Vrabel promoted Smith to coordinator.