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So LaFleur called it “pretty much a wash,” and the on-the-fly adjustments to what’s new and unexpected are just the name of the game in the early stages of any season.
“There’s always unscouted looks, but it comes back to trusting your training, to trusting your rules,” LaFleur said. “There’s going to be stuff they’re going to get us on, and hopefully there’s stuff we can get them on. It’s how do you handle that adversity.”
Neither team played starters much or showed a whole lot schematically in the preseason, which is getting to be the norm around the league.
More important to this matchup, the Bears sported one of the top defenses in the NFL a year ago on their way to an NFC North title, while the Packers will have two-time MVP quarterback Aaron Rodgers running a new offensive system for the first time as a starter.
“That is the challenge, we all know it,” LaFleur said of Chicago’s defense, which took the ball away and scored itself at an alarming rate in 2018. “Everybody on this team knows we have a tremendous challenge in front of us.
“They’re led not only by their front, maybe arguably the best in football, but I just feel like they have a complete package on all three levels.”