Matt LaFleur has to be willing to "go down swinging" against the ball-hawking Chicago Bears

Jordan Love got to sling it against the Detroit Lions, but Dennis Allen's defense is the best turnover-forcing team in the NFL. LaFleur can't be too afraid of interceptions to let Love loose again.

“If we’re going to go down … I’d rather go down swinging than looking.”

After making an aggressive fourth down call late, Matt LaFleur insisted he wanted to be aggressive and live with the consequences. That was on Nov. 5th, after falling to the Carolina Panthers, in part because he decided to go on fourth-and-8 rather than kick a late field goal.

He also said that after beating the Detroit Lions, thanks to a pair of fourth-down touchdowns and the game-sealing fourth down on the game’s final possession.

“I’d rather go down swinging,” LaFleur said on Thanksgiving after his team’s 31-24 win over the Lions.

“I thought the only way you come into this place [and win], which is not an easy place to play, is you’ve got to be aggressive.”

Jordan Love said he “loved” the mentality. Christian Watson said it was exactly what the team needed.

“Not only to win, but to just assert ourselves out there, the kind of team that we are, the kind of team that we’re trying to be as we get later in the season,” Watson said.

But LaFleur does have a tendency to be more conservative in games where the Packers are expected to win. Tyler Dunne at Go Long quoted a Green Bay player who pointed out LaFleur’s tendency to shell up at times.