One of the most underrated things in football are the coaching rivalries. And boy, oh boy, we had a great episode of that on Sunday soon after the game between the Green Bay Packers and the Chicago Bears. Head coaches Matt LaFleur and Ben Johnson had a quick handshake filled with tension.

LaFleur spoke to the press and he wasn’t eager to speak too much about the incident. “Just a quick handshake,” LaFleur said about it. “We’ll see them again in two weeks.” Not that many words, but the latter part of the quote is very telling. Pure divisional rivalry there.

The pot was initially stirred by Ben Johnson, who jabbed LaFleur as soon as he got hired as the Bears coach. He said he enjoyed beating the Packers coach twice a year when he was the Lions’ offensive coordinator. However, LaFleur now r

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