Jordan Love sensed something different about his head coach during the Green Bay Packers’ abbreviated week of preparation heading into Thursday’s Thanksgiving Day matchup with the Detroit Lions.

No, Matt LaFleur didn’t walk around the team’s Lambeau Field headquarters talking about biting kneecaps or spend extra time in the weight room doing biceps curls, trying to morph into a Dan Campbell mini-me. LaFleur had no interest in being someone he wasn’t.

But in just about every conversation the Packers quarterback had with his coach, the word aggressive was part of the discussion. After taking a noticeably ultra-conservative approach — and smartly so — in a dominant win over the Minnesota Vikings just days earlier, LaFleur knew he couldn’t just cut-and-paste the same offensive game plan an

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