Packers coach Matt LaFleur was unwinding, finally at home around 10 p.m. local time, with a glass of wine in one hand and his phone in the other. He rattled through the names of players whose leadership was so important over the last two weeks, and really the last six months, in making his team what it’s become.
“It absolutely starts with Aaron [Rodgers],” LaFleur said, “and then it goes to Davante [Adams] and Marcedes [Lewis], guys like Randall Cobb, the experience he brings, guys like Allen Lazard. Bobby [Tonyan] was so integral, and it’s a shame he’s not going to be with us till the end of it.