Despite back-to-back losses — or a loss and a tie that felt like a loss, anyway — Packers keep the faith that they are the team they thought they were during strong start to season

GREEN BAY — Matt LaFleur knows how you feel.

He understands how excited you got when his Green Bay Packers started the season with impressive, back-to-back victories over two fellow NFC contenders — the Detroit Lions and Washington Commanders — in a five-day span at Lambeau Field.

And he gets why you might be a little concerned now after an ugly loss to the lowly Cleveland Browns on Sept. 21 and his team’s pre-bye 40-40 tie-that-felt-like-a-loss debacle with the Dallas Cowboys.

But the Packers seventh-year head coach has seen a lot during his tenure, and while his former quarterback Aaron Rodgers’ famous “R-E-L-A-X” advice early in the 2014 season pre-dates him, LaFleur doesn’t think anyone should be panicking and thinking this team stinks.

“Every team in the league comes in and says