With a new coaching staff usually comes a new culture and that is what Matt LaFleur is trying to develop with the Green Bay Packers. One of the big things that LaFleur and his staff have tried to create is chemistry and he has tried to build a lot of that through team bonding activities.

LaFleur has built a basketball hoop in the practice facility for players to get some shots up during their spare time. Players have also done things in the community and gone to prescreening of movies as a team to try and build chemistry.

Players have noticed the change and some think the chemistry is what can get them back over the edge this year into the playoffs.

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“The gap in talent around the league is not too far,” safety Adrian Amos said per Ryan Wood of Packers News. “Everybody is good, everybody has great players. It’s just about coming together, and how those players mesh together, how players work well with each other. That’s why you see teams that maybe their roster may not seem like they should be that good, but they are that good, just because of how they work together, how they play together.

“The more and more you hang out with one another, you start to pick up on each other’s tendencies on the field. The more you hang out with each other off the field, you just start learning peoples’ personalities. You know how to approach somebody.”

When Mike McCarthy was the coach there was a lot of animosity on and off the field between the players. It seems early in LaFleur's tenure things are off to a good start.