GREEN BAY — The easiest way to tell that Brandon McManus is back to being his confident, healthy self? The Green Bay Packers veteran kicker seemed almost disappointed that one of the team’s final four games will be in a climate-controlled environment.

That would be the regular-season finale at Minnesota on the first weekend in January. In the meantime, he’ll be kicking in Denver against his former team, the Broncos, on Sunday, then in Chicago on Dec. 20 and at Lambeau Field against the Baltimore Ravens on Dec. 27.

Both Packers-Bears and Packers-Ravens will be Saturday night games, so McManus knows it’ll be frigid — just the way he likes it.

“Hopefully, we take care of business, and then we would almost [certainly] be the No. 1 seed. Then we'd have the homefield advantage,” McManus said,

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