As the game came to a close, fans started chanting “we want Dallas.” in the Lambeau Field crowd.
The Packers won their first playoff game in a mud pit 35-14 over the San Francisco 49ers. If the Packers were to face their arch-nemesis, the Dallas Cowboys, it would be at Lambeau Field. They shook off a midseason two-game losing streak to finish the regular season 13-3 entering the playoffs with home-field advantage. Their special teams was the best in all of football. They scored at least 34 points in all of their first three games. The Packers started their season in dominant fashion. Fortunately, he emerged from rehab and said the Packers were going to win the Super Bowl that season. Brett Favre announced he was entering rehab due to his addiction to painkillers. Their super season looked as if it was about to be derailed before the year even started. They lost to the Dallas Cowboys in the 1996 NFC Championship Game. They were coming off a season where they were close to getting to the Super Bowl.
The 1996 Green Bay Packers entered the year as one of the few favorites to win Super Bowl XXXI. He currently works as a video editor in Green Bay and writes for PackersTalk.By Jacob Westendorf 3 years ago The Green Bay Packers have had a ton of success since Brett Favre joined the franchise in 1992. Hau Khuong has been a Packers fan since 1996. The true test though for Carlson, will come once the season begins. But it seem like the Packers have a lot of faith and trust in Carlson. It will be a different feel once the 2023 season rolls around without Crosby kicking extra points and field goals. They could still sign him in the middle of the season if Carlson under performs. The Packers though haven’t shut the door completely on Crosby yet. That experience can help Carlson as he starts with the Packers.
The younger Carlson met Bisaccia, at a Raiders mini-camp while visiting his older brother and the two have since then kept in touch.Īfter the draft General Manager Brian Gutekunst said “With kickers, Rich has a long track record and a very successful one, and I felt really good about how he felt about him.”Ĭarlson also has experience making big time kicks while he was with Auburn, who plays in the national spotlight often. Packers Special Teams coach Rich Bisaccia also knows Anders pretty well.īefore coming to the Packers as a Special Teams Coach Bisaccia was the Special Teams coordinator for the Las Vegas Raiders, where he coached Carslon’s older brother Daniel. Through the ’21 and ’22 seasons, Carlson struggled, kicking with a knee brace on his non-kicking leg, he was a combined 26-of-38, including 0-of-4 from 50-plus.Ĭarlson has shown that he has grit and toughness through those injuries and is able to overcome adversity. He has also had to battled through a separated shoulder last year. In November 2021 he suffered a torn ACL in a game versus Mississippi State, which caused him to miss out on the rest of the 2021 season. What Carlson can bring to the Packers is that he has faced adversity before. He also missed only 3 extra points while he was at Auburn. College careerĬarson played his college football at Auburn from 2017-2022 and redshirted his first year.ĭuring his time at Auburn he made 79 out of 110 field goals with his longest field goal coming in his first year as a kicker, a 53 yard field goal. Here is what you need to know about the newest kicker on the Packers roster. For the first time in over 15 years the Packers will a new kicker kicking field goals and extra points.Īfter the team decided not to re-sign veteran Mason Crosby, the Packers drafted Anders Carlson in the 6th round of the 2023 NFL draft.Ĭarlson will most likely be the Packers kicker come starting day with no other kickers on the roster.
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