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Path to winning Aaron Rodgers' trust for Packers rookie coach included scotch, honesty and playbook updates

GREEN BAY, Wis. — With Rich Homie Quan’s “Type of Way” blasting through the speakers at Ray Nitschke Field, the man in charge of maximizing the rest of Aaron Rodgers’ Hall of Fame career pulls up in a white golf cart as players warm up for a Tuesday morning practice. He smiles, extends his hand to a visitor and offers a seat next to him.

“Hey, I’m Matt,” he says, cheerfully.

The visitor is here to inquire about he and Rodgers’ relationship. Big shock.

The initial question of how the two will get along is legitimate, especially after the fate that befell Rodgers’ last coach, Mike McCarthy, who won a Super Bowl in the 2010 season but was fired in December after a disappointing 6-9-1 season full of reports about the two’s dissolving relationship.