With their Green Bay-to-Phoenix flight delayed by mechanical problems that forced them to wait for a new plane to transport them to Sunday’s matchup with the Arizona Cardinals, Green Bay Packers head coach Matt LaFleur did something he’d never done before:

He put his offense through a walkthrough on the tarmac at Austin Straubel International Airport on Saturday afternoon.

With one of the two team planes having departed on time at 1:15 p.m.— the one carrying staff and the team’s position coaches — LaFleur, his coordinators and his players found themselves marooned in Titletown until Delta airlines could swap out their scheduled plane with a different one.

Knowing the nearly six-hour delay would wreak havoc with their normal night-before-a-game plans at their hotel in the Phoenix area, L

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