GREEN BAY — As Lucas Havrisik trotted onto the field Sunday evening to attempt a 39-yard field goal with 1 minute, 56 seconds remaining and the Green Bay Packers clinging to a six-point lead in a gotta-have-it game against the struggling Cincinnati Bengals, Matt LaFleur had a pretty good idea of what was going through the minds of the 78,277 denizens inside Lambeau Field.

“It was probably the same thing going through mine,” the Packers head coach confessed after what wound up being a 27-18 Packers victory. “You just hold your breath.”

Havrisik, who just last week was looking into substitute teaching jobs in the greater Cleveland area while still keeping his hopes alive for making a living as an NFL placekicker, made the kick, rendering the what-ifs of a miss irrelevant.

But just to be

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