'Dog' mentality drives Packers' flyers in punt coverage

Keisean Nixon and Rudy Ford have instilled swagger into Green Bay’s special teams

CB Keisean Nixon & S Rudy FordGREEN BAY – It was Pat O'Donnell's name and Pat O'Donnell's likeness, but the graphic might as well have had the rest of the Packers' punt-coverage team on there, too.

After discovering he'd been named the NFC Special Teams Player of the Week for the first time in his eight-year NFL career, O'Donnell wasn't taking any victory laps around the locker room because of the five punts he dropped inside the 20-yard line during a 14-12 win over Tampa Bay on Sunday.

Instead, surrounded by a small group of reporters, O'Donnell glanced over to his flyers, Keisean Nixon and Rudy Ford, on the…