GREEN BAY — Matt LaFleur believes he has a really good football team. And that’s not a faith-is-belief-in-things-unseen opinion. He’s seen his Green Bay Packers play well this season. Frequently.

Just not consistently.

Which is why the Packers head coach wasn’t necessarily looking at Monday night’s matchup — between his Packers and the defending Super Bowl-champion Philadelphia Eagles at Lambeau Field — as some sort of measuring-stick game.

Just as LaFleur pooh-poohed the idea of last week’s game being a so-called “trap game” — a position that turned out to be difficult to support after his team’s 16-13 loss to the Carolina Panthers, a 13.5-point underdog — he downplayed the possibility that this game could serve as an important mile marker on the Packers’ journey toward being the team

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