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THE DOPE ON THIS WEEK’S OPPONENT:
MATT LAFLEUR…In his first season as the Packers’ 15th head coach.
MIKE ZIMMER…In his sixth year as the Vikings’ 9th head coach.
THE PACKERS-VIKINGS SERIES
Packers T/G Billy Turner is from Shoreview, Minn. and attended Mounds View High School outside of Minneapolis…Turner’s father, Maurice, was a 12th-round draft choice by the Vikings in 1983…Packers executive vice president/ director of football operations Russ Ball served as the senior football administrator for the Vikings from 1999-2000...Vikings CB Trae Waynes is from Kenosha, Wis...Vikings assistant head coach/offensive advisor Gary Kubiak coached Packers defensive backs coach Jason Simmons for two seasons when he played for the Houston Texans…Kubiak was also head coach of the Texans when Packers CB Tramon Williams signed as an undrafted free agent in 2006…Offensive coordinator Rick Dennison, Gary Kubiak, Klint Kubiak and Brian Pariani were all on the Denver coaching staff in 2016 while Turner played for the Broncos…Packers head coach Matt LaFleur was Vikings QB Kirk Cousins’ position coach in Washington for two seasons (2012-13)…Vikings QB Sean Mannion was on the Los Angeles Rams’ roster when LaFleur was offensive coordinator…LaFleur was on Kubiak’s staff in Houston in 2008-09...Cousins and Packers DL Preston Smith played on the Redskins together for three seasons (2015-17)…Vikings assistant strength and conditioning coach Derik Keyes served in the same role with Cleveland while Packers defensive coordinator Mike Pettine was head coach…Vikings assistant strength and conditioning coach Chaz Mahle was the sports performance assistant at Stanford in 2012 when Packers LB Blake Martinez was a freshman…Packers RB Aaron Jones was coached by Vikings offensive quality control coach AC Patterson during his freshman season at Texas-El Paso…Vikings assistant defensive line coach Robert Rodriguez was also on the Texas El-Paso staff during Jones’ career at UTEP…Packers S Adrian Amos and Vikings G Dakota Dozier spent two seasons together on the Chicago Bears’ roster (2015-16)…Vikings offensive quality control coach Christian Jones played with Packers S Ibraheim Campbell, DL Tyler Lancaster, DL Dean Lowry and FB Danny Vitale at Northwestern…Jones was a 4-star recruit out of Westfield HS (Houston, Texas), where Packers tight ends coach Justin Outten was the assistant head coach/offensive coordinator...Minnesota running backs coach Kennedy Polamalu coached in Jacksonville for four years (2006-09) during Green Bay TE Marcedes Lewis’ time with the Jaguars...Lewis and Vikings T Rashod Hill played together with Jacksonville in 2016…Packers offensive coordinator Nathaniel Hackett held the same position when Lewis and Hill were on the roster…Lewis spent two seasons (2004-05) with Vikings assistant special teams coach Ryan Ficken at UCLA...Polamalu coached at UCLA while Green Bay DL Kenny Clark played for the Bruins...Packers running backs coach Ben Sirmans and Vikings wide receivers coach Drew Petzing coached together at Boston College from 2010-11...Vikings special teams coordinator Marwin Maalouf was the assistant special teams coordinator for Miami when Turner was with the Dolphins...Maalouf and Pettine were on the Baltimore Ravens’ coaching staff together in 2008. Former college teammates include: Packers CB Tony Brown, P JK Scott and Vikings WR Irv Smith Jr. (Alabama); Packers LB B.J. Goodson, Vikings CB Mackensie Alexander and S Jayron Kearse (Clemson); Packers CB Josh Jackson and Vikings DT Jaleel Johnson (Iowa), Campbell, Lancaster, Lowry, Vitale and Vikings DE Ifeadi Odenigbo (Northwestern); Packers C Corey Linsley and Vikings G Pat Elflein (Ohio State); Packers LB Ty Summers and Vikings T Aviante Collins (TCU); Packers DL Kenny Clark, Vikings LB Anthony Barr and LB Eric Kendricks (UCLA); Packers LB Oren Burks and Vikings DE Stephen Weatherly (Vanderbilt).