Jordan Love didn’t need to talk Matt LaFleur into going for it on fourth down late in the fourth quarter of what wound up being the Green Bay Packers’ 27-23 victory over the Arizona Cardinals on Sunday.

All it took was the Packers head coach seeing the look on his quarterback’s face to know that he needed to pull the field-goal unit off the field and give Love & Co. the chance to go win the game.

And that’s exactly what happened.

“When our quarterback’s coming off, and I can see the disdain on his face …,” LaFleur replied when asked what prompted him to change his mind on having fill-in kicker Lucas Havrisik try a potential game-tying 47-yard field goal with 1 minute, 2 minutes, 32 seconds left in the game and send Love and the offense back out to try to convert a fourth-and-2 from Arizona’s 29-yard line.

“I looked up at the clock, saw how much time was left. It wasn’t by any means a chip-shot [field goal] — although Lucas has come in and done a hell of a job — but [it was] one of those deals where I was like, ‘No matter what we call, this guy’s going to make it work.’ And that’s exactly what happened.”

Although LaFleur intimated that the play-call he sent in with Love after the timeout should have been changed (or “canned,” in the Packers’ offensive parlance) to the alternative call attached to it, Love indeed made it work.

With tight end Tucker Kraft as his third option in a trips-left alignment, Love looked past Malik Heath, who was covered on a pivot route, and Matthew Golden, who wasn’t open on an out route, and found Kraft down the left sideline on a corner route for a 15-yard gain.

“Instead of just trying to tie it up, [we were] really just trying to put the dagger in the rest of the game,” Kraft said. “Give the ball back to our defense and just have that trust that they can win us the game.”

Three plays after Love’s completion to Kraft, Josh Jacobs scored on a 1-yard run for the Packers’ first lead of the day with 1:50 to play.

“Scared money don’t make money,” LaFleur said afterward. “Sometimes you’ve got to shoot. And those guys made a hell of a play.”

Said Love: “We were going to do on the sideline. Obviously, the kick team came out, and we were still thinking about it. And Matt ultimately decided that we were going to go for it, so he called that timeout. But that’s really just all Matt having that confidence in us.”

Asked if he wanted to say something to LaFleur as the field-goal unit was coming onto the field, Love replied, “It’s a tough one. You’re thinking what the situation is. Obviously three points ties it up, but you’re [thinking], ‘Man, there’s a lot of time left.’ You hate for them to just need to go down there and kick a field goal for the win with that much time and that many timeouts.

“It’s obviously a tough decision. You don’t have a lot of time to sit there and think about it. But at the end of the day, I’m glad that Matt made that decision to go with the offense, and we went out there and executed.”

With all three of their timeouts and starting at their own 35-yard line after the kickoff after Kraft’s TD was a touchback, the Cardinals did drive to the Green Bay 26-yard line before Micah Parsons’ third sack of the day short-circuited their comeback attempt—and made LaFleur’s courageous change of heart pay off.

“That was a gutsy situation,” Jacobs said. “But at the end of the day, we felt it. Whenever you got a group of guys collectively telling the coach ‘Man, we trust ourselves. We believe we can do this,” you’ve got to roll with the players.

“It’s just one of those things. Everybody is bought in, and the sky’s the limit. I’m glad we converted on that.”

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