What’s a losing streak? These Packers don’t know

Quarterback Aaron Rodgers was playing on a fractured pinky toe. The offensive line was making yet another adjustment, with Yosh Nijman taking over at left tackle after Elgton Jenkins’ season-ending injury. The NFC-contending Rams were coming to town off their bye week and in rebound mode due to, ahem, two straight losses.

Yet the Packers continued to persevere and staved off a potential losing streak for the ninth straight time under LaFleur. His mantras of going 1-0 every week and always hitting the reset button already may have grown old in his relatively young coaching tenure, but the team has embraced them, and LaFleur deserves praise for that no matter how much he’s always more interested in giving props to others.

“I think it’s a credit to everybody in this building for taking that same mentality,” he said. “I can’t say enough about the guys just coming together, playing for one another, embracing roles …

“Our guys are truly selfless.”

That’s no more evident than in seeing Aaron Jones, Rashan Gary and Allen Lazard battle back from one-week absences to suit up for an important showdown with the Rams, when sitting out one more game with the bye to follow might’ve been the easier, more convenient approach.

But that’s just not how this team is wired, and it’s not the culture LaFleur has cultivated, even as conservative as the medical staff generally is regarding injuries.

“They play for one another” isn’t just a throwaway line with this bunch. Neither is the way they live in the moment, as Adams sounded like his coach at the postgame podium talking about the nonstop weekly challenges and how “right now” is all they know about where they stand.