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Packers’ defensive woes could be a result of poor conditioning says LaFleur

> That’s something that \[defensive coordinator Jeff Hafley\] and I were kind of like nitpicking. Why is it happening? Because if you look at the scoring differential, I just looked at it, we were up in the first quarter throughout the course of the season, we’ve scored 24 points, and the opposition scored 0. There’s a big discrepancy in the second quarter as well, but the second half, I think we’re -6 on the season.

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> We’re just like why is that happening? Are we running out of gas? Obviously, they got the ball to start the second half. They go on an 18-play drive or whatever it was. I mean, ate up damn near 10 minutes off the clock or whatever it was. Does that gas you out? Does that make you more tired? Do we need to roll more guys in the first half? The hard part is the first half was a bunch of three-and-outs, so guys feel fresh and you put them in there.

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> There’s things we talk about in regards to are we well-conditioned enough from practice? Did our guys do enough on the bye week? All that stuff has kind of been floated around, trying to figure out as to why this is happening, ‘cause certainly we’re trying to find solutions.

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