Arizona Cardinals head coach Mike LaFleur during rookie minicamp at Dignity Health Arizona Cardinals Training Center
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The Arizona Cardinals will be taking part in joint practices against the Green Bay Packers, and it should make for an exciting moment as brother Mike and Matt LaFleur will be going up against each other as head coaches. They've already talked about the moment, and Mike was recently asked how often they talk.
Leave it up to the younger brother to throw in a joke here or there.
“We talk a lot. Him and I talk ne less time than we talk to our wives …get than on camera,” Mike said via ESPN's Rob Demovsky.
Mike LaFleur on how much he and Matt talk:
“One less time than we talk to our wives …get than on camera.” pic.twitter.com/VfUiG6Fn8y
— Rob Demovsky (@RobDemovsky) August 26, 2026
There's no doubt that the brothers are close, and Mike seems excited to be able to take part in something like this wit his brother.
“It's a cool place. They got the bikes with the kids and stuff like that, and that's for a cool cause for the locals. And so we'll do that too, just like a lot of the other teams do when they joint [practice]. And then there's a ton of fans there. I mean, it's Green Bay. What else you gonna do?” Mike said.
The LaFleurs coached together with the Atlanta Falcons in 2015 and 2016, and went their separate ways afterwards. Though they were together at one point, it doesn't hide the fact that they're still pretty competitive, and Matt showed that when asked about joint practice with his brother.
“If there's an issue, I'm going to tell the guys, ‘Hey, you come tag me in. They can tag in my brother. And we'll throw down on the 50,'” Matt said. “I think it's going to be pretty special, but at the end of the day, we're just looking to try to get good work on both sides. Certainly, always going to prioritize the Green Bay Packers but if there is another team in the National Football League that I'll be rooting for, it will be the Arizona Cardinals.”