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Packers' Eddie Lacy: 'Things need to happen in order to wake you up'

GREEN BAY, Wis. – Eddie Lacy said he didn’t want to use the word "complacency" to describe what happened to him at the start of the season.

And then the Green Bay Packers running back more or less went on to use the very definition of the word to describe why his production plummeted earlier this year.

“I think sometimes when things come easy to you, you kind of ease off a little bit and you get lax,” Lacy said Thursday. “And things need to happen in order to wake you up and show you that it can be taken away, it can get difficult, but that’s how I would say it.