The Green Bay Packers and Tampa Bay Buccaneers are getting set to face off in the NFC Championship game on Sunday.
Tom Brady against Aaron Rodgers is the story of this game — and for good reason. However, Packers head coach Matt LaFleur has firsthand experience with losing to Tom Brady and hopes that his team can come out on top this time around.
LaFleur was the quarterbacks coach for the Atlanta Falcons in Super Bowl LI and the infamous 28-3 Patriots rally. For LaFleur, he hopes to avoid something like that again with the Packers
“We are fully aware of just how dangerous and how explosive this football team can be,” LaFleur told reporters in his Wednesday press conference, via ProFootballTalk. “Tom’s been doing it a long time, leading his teams back. I mentioned, I was part of that Super Bowl where they came back. So the mentality is one play at a time, that’s how we always take it. But you can’t relax — especially when you get against great teams. You can’t relax for one second. You can’t take anything for granted. And you’ve got to continue to have the mindset that the score is 0-0 regardless of whatever the score may be.”
Tom Brady is a surefire Hall of Fame quarterback and arguably the best to ever do it, and LaFleur and the Packers will have their hands full on Sunday.
The Packers coach knows Green Bay must stay aggressive — regardless of the score — on both sides of the ball. The stakes are high, and that's when Brady is at his best.
Will LaFleur get revenge from that gut-wrenching, improbable comeback? Or will Tom Brady continue his impeccable success and lead the Buccaneers to the Super Bowl in his first season in Florida?
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