GREEN BAY — There’s something about brothers, right? You love ’em, you hate ’em. You fight with ’em, you pull for ’em. There’s no one you want to see succeed more than your brother, and when you’re competing, there’s no one you want to beat more than him, either.
And so, looking back, Matt LaFleur can now admit he didn’t handle his brotherly battles last season — with his blood brother, Mike, as well as his football coaching brothers on the San Francisco 49ers staff — as well as he needed to.
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