Matt LaFleur took his Packers to Shanahan’s Steakhouse for a team dinner Thursday night.
Green Bay Packers head coach Matt LaFleur high-fives players as they come off of the field during a preseason NFL football game against the Cleveland Browns, Saturday, Aug. 10, 2024, in Cleveland. Matt LaFleur’s trip to Denver with the Green Bay Packers allowed him a chance to reminisce about one of the key mentors who helped him become an NFL head coach.
“Coach Shanahan has had a tremendous impact ,” LaFleur said. “He gave me my first position job in 2010 with Washington as the quarterbacks coach. I learned so much from him, not only X’s and O’s wise, but how to manage a staff. The attention to detail he would put into it was like nobody I’ve ever been around. All of us, when you look back on it, we’ve had a lot of guys that have gone on to be head coaches, and I think it’s because we learned the right way from Coach Shanahan.
Washington won the NFC East in 2012 with rookie Robert Griffin III at quarterback but went 3-13 the following year. Jay Gruden replaced the elder Shanahan as head coach, and LaFleur spent 2014 as quarterbacks coach at Notre Dame before returning to the NFL and eventually being named Packers coach in 2019.Broncos training camp rewind, Day 15: Bo Nix, Denver QBs sharp in leading Sean Payton’s “young and hungry” team vs.
“He would just sit in there for hours. We had this cut-up that was a couple hundred plays long. It was Baylor’s offense. It was the Carolina Panthers with Cam Newton. It was Denver, with what they were doing with Tebow. I’ll never forget. … We would watch it all, and we’d be in there for a couple hours, and everybody is somewhat exhausted from the process and he’s like, ‘Yeah, let’s run it back to the top.
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