LaFleur regrets decision to kick late FG in NFC title game
Green Bay Packers head coach Matt LaFleur expressed his regret over how his team's last possession transpired in Sunday's NFC Championship Game.
With 2:15 left in the contest and the ball on the Buccaneers' 8-yard line, Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers threw an incomplete pass on third down, though it appeared he could have run the ball in for a touchdown.
On the following play, the Packers kicked a field goal rather than take a fourth attempt at a touchdown and two-point conversion to tie the game.
The Packers wouldn't get the ball back and lost 31-26.
"Anytime it doesn't work out, you always regret it, right?" LaFleur said, according to ESPN's Rob Demovsky. "Having three shots and coming away with no yards and knowing not only (we) need the touchdown but the 2-point ... anytime something doesn't work out, do you regret it? Sure."
Rodgers both defended and expressed surprise at the call from the sideline.
"It wasn't my decision. I understand the thinking," Rodgers said, per Bill Huber of Sports Illustrated.
"I thought maybe we were gonna have four chances to go," he added, according to Matt Schneidman of The Athletic.