GREEN BAY, Wis. -- Matt LaFleur didn’t mince words when the subject of the Green Bay Packers’ last two season openers came up.
“We got our ass kicked,” he said recently.
The Packers coach wasn’t trying to master the obvious. He’s trying to figure out how to not let what happened the past two years -- when the New Orleans Saints blew the doors of LaFleur’s team 38-3 in the 2021 season opener and when the Minnesota Vikings handled them relatively easily 23-7 in Week 1 last year -- happen for a third time.