GREEN BAY, Wis. -- A day after Mason Crosby missed three potential game-winning field goals before finally sealing the victory on his fourth try, coach Matt LaFleur absolved the 37-year-old kicker of some of the blame.
"I think there's just some things that we absolutely need to clean up just from an operation standpoint," LaFleur said Monday of the Packers' overtime win at the Cincinnati Bengals. "You can't put all of that on Mason. I thought there's some areas that we have to make sure we get corrected, and we will."
In the special teams world, "operation" is code for snap, hold and protection.