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GREEN BAY – The NFL and the Green Bay Packers are proceeding under the assumption they will play a 16-game season this year in full stadiums. Whether they will start the season that way, much less finish it, depends on too many variables to calculate, but they say they have to start somewhere.

“You need to continue to work off your normal plan so you can get your other benchmarks completed,” said Aaron Popkey, Packers director of public affairs. “As we make our own plans for our season, we continue to track…