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THE DOPE ON THIS WEEK’S OPPONENT:
Matt LaFleur: 6-1-0, .857; 1st NFL season
Andy Reid: 212-140-1, .601 (incl. 12-14 postseason); 21st NFL season
vs. Opponent: Reid 5-5 vs. Packers
MATT LAFLEUR…In his first season as the Packers’ 15th head coach.
ANDY REID…In his seventh year as the Chiefs’ 13th head coach.
THE PACKERS-CHIEFS SERIES
Green Bay general manager Brian Gutekunst worked for the Chiefs as a scouting assistant for one season (1998)...Packers executive vice president/director of football operations Russ Ball, a native of Moberly, Mo., worked for the Chiefs for 10 seasons (1989-98), the final two in football operations. Ball’s brother, Randy, is a pro scouting assistant with the Chiefs. Ball also played center at Central Missouri and later served as head strength and conditioning coach for the Missouri Tigers from 1982-89 and earned his master’s degree from Missouri in 1990…Packers S Will Redmond spent part of the 2017 season on the Kansas City practice squad...Chiefs head coach Andy Reid served as the tight ends/assistant offensive line coach for five seasons and quarterbacks coach for two seasons in Green Bay under head coach Mike Holmgren. Reid and the Packers appeared in back-to-back Super Bowls during his tenure, winning Super Bowl XXXI…Chiefs CB Bashaud Breeland played with the Packers in 2018…Chiefs strength and conditioning coach Barry Rubin spent 11 seasons (1995-2005) on Green Bay’s coaching staff…Kansas City director of pro personnel Tim Terry spent 13 seasons in the Packers’ pro personnel department, serving as a pro personnel assistant from 2005-07 and then as assistant director of pro personnel (2008-16)…Packers WR Darrius Shepherd is a native of Blue Springs, Mo. …Chiefs offensive line coach Andy Heck held the same title with the Jacksonville Jaguars, where Packers TE Marcedes Lewis was on the roster...Packers outside linebackers coach Mike Smith spent the previous three seasons on Reid’s staff in Kansas City…Smith was on the Texas Tech coaching staff when Chiefs QB Patrick Mahomes played for the Red Raiders...Packers director of player engagement Grey Ruegamer (1999) and special teams quality control coach Rayna Stewart (1998) played with Chiefs defensive backs/cornerbacks coach Sam Madison in Miami. Ruegamer and Madison also played together with the N.Y. Giants, where they won Super Bowl XLII. Chiefs defensive backs coach Dave Merritt was on the Giants’ coaching staff during Ruegamer and Madison’s tenure...Packers LB Za’Darius Smith and Chiefs OL Greg Senat played the 2018 season together in Baltimore...Chiefs strength and conditioning coach Ryan Reynolds held the same position at UCLA when Packers DL Kenny Clark was on the Bruins’ roster...Packers DL Dean Lowry, FB Danny Vitale and DL Tyler Lancaster played at Northwestern when Chiefs offensive quality control coach David Girardi was a defensive graduate assistant...Packers T Bryan Bulaga played with Chiefs college scouting coordinator Greg Castillo at Iowa...Chiefs college and pro scout Jason Lamb was a pro personnel intern with the Packers in 2013...Chiefs national football scout Cassidy Kaminski was born in Green Bay and served as the wide receivers/quality control coach at St. Norbert College in De Pere, Wis. from 2014-16...Packers offensive coordinator Nathaniel Hackett coached Lewis, Chiefs TE Blake Bell (2018) and G Stefen Wisniewski (2015) in Jacksonville. Additionally, Hackett’s father, Paul, was the offensive coordinator for the Chiefs from 1993-97...Packers LB Preston Smith played in Washington with Breeland (2015-17), CB Kendall Fuller (2016-17) and C Austin Reiter (2015)…Packers TE Jimmy Graham played with Chiefs DE Frank Clark (2015-17) and Hamilton (2015-16) while with Seattle…Chiefs S Tyrann Mathieu and Packers CB Tramon Williams played together in Arizona in 2017…Williams and Vitale played with Chiefs DE Emmanuel Ogbah, OL Cam Erving, DE Alex Okafor, T Mitchell Schwartz and Reiter in Cleveland in 2016. Schwartz and Erving also played for Packers defensive coordinator Mike Pettine when he was head coach in Cleveland…Chiefs WR Sammy Watkins played one season under Hackett when he was the offensive coordinator for Buffalo (2014) and head coach Matt LaFleur when he served as offensive coordinator for the Rams (2017)…Packers G/T Billy Turner, Chiefs S Jordan Lucas and RB Damien Williams played together with Miami in 2016...Former college teammates include: Packers P JK Scott, CB Tony Brown and Chiefs WR Gehrig Dieter (Alabama); Packers RB Jamaal Williams and Chiefs S Daniel Sorenson (BYU); Packers S Will Redmond, LB Preston Smith and Chiefs DT Chris Jones (Mississippi State); Packers C Corey Linsley and Chiefs LB Darron Lee (Ohio State); Packers S Adrian Amos and Chiefs S Jordan Lucas (Penn State); Packers DL Kinsgley Keke and Chiefs S Armani Watts (Texas A&M).