It’s Week 1, and it was about two and a half quarters in, so Matt LaFleur was at the point most coaches are, still learning about his Packers’ strengths and weaknesses, which buttons to push and which to lay off. Which led to a moment of indecision with 6:34 left in the third quarter and Green Bay up 17–6 in Chicago.
His first-year starting quarterback, Jordan Love, had just scrambled for nine yards to turn a third-and-12 into fourth-and-3 at the Bears’ 35. He could have just send the field goal team out for a 53-yarder to push the lead to 14, though that was another spot where he was breaking in a new starter after moving on from another forever Packer, kicker Mason Crosby. So he went to Love and asked him, “Do you wanna go for it?”
“Yeah,” Love responded, without missing a beat.
