GREEN BAY — Brandon McManus isn’t sure where Troy Aikman got the impression that Monday night marked the first time he’d been “semi-healthy” for a game since injuring his right quadriceps in practice on Oct. 8, but the Green Bay Packers veteran kicker knows the one person who didn’t tell Aikman that. 

Brandon McManus.

“That was news to me when I heard that I had said that,” McManus said Thursday after practice as he and the Packers (5-3-1) prepped for this Sunday’s matchup with the New York Giants (2-8) at MetLife Stadium.

McManus has been medically cleared to kick in each of the Packers’ last three games — an Oct. 26 win at Pittsburgh, a Nov. 2 home loss to the Carolina Panthers and Monday night’s home loss to the Philadelphia Eagles.

“Right now, we’re working through coming back off of an injury, which he hasn’t had for a long, long time,” special teams coordinator Rich Bisaccia said Thursday afternoon. “He’s striking the ball pretty good, and we’ll see what tomorrow brings.”

During the “Monday Night Football” broadcast, Aikman delivered his remark about McManus not having been “semi-healthy” for a game until that night. McManus was not listed on the Saturday injury report heading into the game against the Eagles and insisted Thursday that his recent struggles aren’t because of his leg being weak or his pain threshold being an issue.

“As you work through the progression of being injured, obviously, the pain tolerances and everything get better and better,” he said. “Last week was when I felt almost back to normal — pretty much back to normal. Pretty much no pain; didn’t feel anything in my leg.

“[I’m] definitely healthy now. I was healthy enough to play, and it was our decision from the medical [staff], how I was feeling at practice. And [I] look forward to performing the way I know how to.”

Now that is something McManus has not done of late. After going 20 for 21 on field-goal attempts and 30 for 30 on extra points last season, McManus has made only 11 of 17 field-goal attempts this season — the NFL’s worst field-goal accuracy of any eligible kicker with 10 or more tries.

Those six misses include the blocked field goal at Cleveland on Sept. 21 and Monday night’s ill-conceived 64-yarder, which head coach Matt LaFleur should have called off in favor of a Hail Mary throw at the end of the game.

“I’ve been upset with some of these easier kicks that I’ve missed — [kicks] that are relatively easy for me. So, it’s been disappointing,” McManus said. “[I’ve] been battling through that and going through the whole process of [that I] didn’t have my normal weeks of practice. So, that part was frustrating. And then, obviously, my performance has been extremely frustrating — for me more than anybody.”

Of course, the additional layer to this saga is that the Packers continue to carry a second kicker on their 53-man roster — Lucas Havrisik, who made all 10 of his kicks (six extra points, four field goals, including a franchise-record 61-yarder) while McManus was out.

Asked why the team continues to keep Havrisik if McManus is healthy and their clear-cut, no-questions-asked kicker, LaFleur replied, “Lucas is a really good young, up and coming kicker as well. So fortunately for us, we have the flexibility within our roster to carry two.”

For his part, McManus gave no indication that Havrisik’s presence on the roster has factored into his performance. To him, it’s just the reality of being a kicker — the results are very easily discerned by everyone: Either the ball goes through the uprights, or it doesn’t.

“That’s the nature of the position and that’s why they pay us handsomely,” McManus said. “It’s an unfortunate black-and-white thing with our position. It comes with the territory. That’s why I like playing this position.”

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