“That was a crazy end to that game. That’s insanity,” said Crosby, afterward. “The fact that we kept getting opportunities, you’ve got to give it up to our team, the way we fought to get in that position again and I just wanted so badly to come through there. It’s what I do. I had a couple go bad there and was really happy to hit that one.”
Crosby’s day started innocently enough other than missing an extra point in the second quarter. He bounced back to make two field goals from 44 yards and another from 22 that gave Green Bay a 22-14 lead with 11:20 left in the fourth quarter and extended his franchise record for consecutive made field goals to 27.
That streak came to an end when he missed a 36-yard field goal wide left with 2:12 remaining, a kick that would’ve put the Packers back up after Cincinnati tied the game at 22.
After McPherson missed from 57, quarterback Aaron Rodgers completed a 20-yard pass to Davante Adams to send Crosby out for another game-winning 51-yard field goal after he previously hit from there against San Francisco two weeks ago.
The ball sailed wide left on Crosby and the two teams headed to overtime. There, Crosby had another chance after Packers linebacker De’Vondre Campbell intercepted Cincinnati quarterback Joe Burrow and returned the ball to the Bengals’ 18-yard line, but his 40-yard field goal again went wide left.
Cincinnati drove down to the Green Bay 32 on its next possession before Krys Barnes tackled Joe Mixon a yard shy of the first-down marker. Facing fourth-and-1, the Bengals sent McPherson out for a 49-yard field goal that initially looked good but sailed left.
“When the ball turned left, it kind of caught me off-guard,” McPherson said. “Honestly, I thought the refs were playing a game with us whenever I looked down there and they were doing the ‘no good’ motion. I honestly thought they were playing a game because I struck it really well and I was really confident that it was going through.”
