With the season nearly one-quarter of the way done, the Green Bay Packers have reason to believe they possess a championship-caliber offense and defense.

Special teams? That’s a different story.

Breakdowns in the area of the game the Packers call “we-fense” have helped cost them victories each of the last two weeks. Those special-teams issues help explain why the Packers (2-1-1) fell out of the NFC North lead heading into their bye week.

“I think if we can just clean up those catastrophic errors — which, you know, that’s a big ‘if’ — we’ll be in a lot better spot,” Packers coach Matt LaFleur said this week.

Green Bay’s traditional struggles in special teams started well before LaFleur’s arrival in 2019, but a couple of big plays the last two weeks have made the issue more glaring.

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