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The\u00a0Green Bay Packers\u00a0find themselves on a\u00a0startling two-game losing streak\u00a0that has thrown their playoff hopes up in the air. After losing to the\u00a0Carolina Panthers\u00a0in a massive upset in Week 9, the Packers scored just seven points in Week 10 against the\u00a0Philadelphia Eagles, which led to them suffering yet another loss.<\/p>\n
Considering how Green Bay only managed to score 13 points against Carolina, it\u2019s safe to say the offense has some issues that need to be fixed immediately. Of course, it doesn\u2019t help that\u00a0kicker Brandon McManus\u00a0has struggled in his return from a quad injury. However, McManus claims he is fully healthy, and he recently shot down an errant injury report from\u00a0Troy Aikman.<\/p>\n
For much of his career, McManus has been one of the consistent kickers in the\u00a0NFL, but that hasn\u2019t been the case in 2025. In seven games, McManus has made just 11 of his 17 field goal attempts, and his struggles have been particularly notable since he returned from a two-game absence due to his aforementioned quad injury.<\/p>\n
In all three of the Packers\u2019 losses this year, McManus has missed a field goal attempt, and he also missed his lone extra point attempt of the season in the team\u2019s tie with the\u00a0Dallas Cowboys. With Lucas Havrisik still on the roster after he briefly filled in for McManus, questions about the kicker position have continued to pop up in recent weeks.<\/p>\n
For the time being, Green Bay is sticking with McManus, even though questions about his health linger. Despite not being on the team\u2019s final injury report last week, Monday Night Football commentator Troy Aikman claimed that McManus still isn\u2019t fully healthy during ESPN\u2019s broadcast of the Packers\u2019 loss to the Eagles. Once he caught wind of Aikman\u2019s comments, McManus\u00a0quickly shot them down.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat was news to me when I heard that I had said that,\u201d McManus said to reporters on Thursday when asked about Aikman\u2019s claim. \u201cAs you work through the progression of being injured, obviously, the pain tolerances and everything get better and better. Last week was when I felt almost back to normal \u2013 pretty much back to normal. Pretty much no pain, didn\u2019t feel anything in my leg.\u201d<\/p>\n
GettyKicker Brandon McManus of the Green Bay Packers.<\/p>\n
Havrisik\u2019s presence on the roster looms large, due in large part to how well he kicked in McManus\u2019 absence. It\u2019s admittedly a small sample size, but Havrisik made all four of his field goal attempts and all six of his extra point attempts during his time on the field for the Packers. If McManus can\u2019t figure things out, should Green Bay turn to Havrisik?<\/p>\n
It\u2019s a question the team is going to have to at least consider, especially since McManus is apparently fully healthy now. He isn\u2019t on the team\u2019s injury report heading into Week 11, so he will be on the field once again for the team\u2019s clash with the\u00a0New York Giants. If McManus misses another kick, though, he could truly be on the hot seat moving forward with Havrisik looming as a viable option behind him.<\/p>\n
Recent intel suggests that General manager Mike Borgonzi and the Tennessee Titans’ front office are seemingly casting a wide net to find Brian Callahan’s successor. They’re scouring the NFL landscape to poach an assistant from another staff to become their next head coach. However, an interesting candidate from the collegiate ranks could reportedly emerge: Lane Kiffin.<\/p>\n
Kiffin is currently in his sixth season calling the shots at Ole Miss. His role overseeing the Rebels’ program has garnered attention around the league, with the Titans ostensibly taking notice.<\/p>\n
The Athletic’s Bruce Feldman revealed that a little birdie told him Kiffin is on the Titans’ radar during. This would certainly profile as an outside-the-box hire, albeit one with a notable connection to the Volunteer State.<\/p>\n
New-age fans may be too young to remember, but Kiffin was the head coach of Tennessee’s Division I football squad in 2009. He guided them to a Chick-fil-A Bowl (AKA the Peach Bowl) appearance in his lone campaign before jettisoning for USC’s vacancy roughly two weeks later. With that in mind, not everyone may have fond memories of him, though that apparently doesn’t bother Borgonzi and Co.<\/p>\n
“One industry source said there was at least a modicum of interest in [Lane] Kiffin among decision-makers with the Tennessee Titans,”\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>Feldman wrote ($).<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n It’s worth mentioning that Feldman prefaced Kiffin’s reported ties to the Titans’ vacancy by higlighting that Ole Miss is likely to retain its sideline general. The former pointed out that the latter’s family is “all settled in Oxford,” so this is far from a foregone conclusion.<\/p>\n Nevertheless, Kiffin is perhaps the most shocking candidate to emerge among\u00a0the rumored names\u00a0the Titans might be eyeing. His nearly three decades of coaching experience in various roles are valuable. Yet, he has just three years in the pros, two of which were quite forgetful.<\/p>\n Before leading the Volunteers, Kiffin was a defensive quality control assistant for the Jacksonville Jagaurs in 2000. He also had a brief stint as the Las Vegas (then Oakland) Raiders’ head coach, getting fired just 20 months after being hired. Be that as it may, his success at Ole Miss (53-19 record) may be enough to give him another chance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The\u00a0Green Bay Packers\u00a0find themselves on a\u00a0startling two-game losing streak\u00a0that has thrown their playoff hopes up in the air. After losing to the\u00a0Carolina Panthers\u00a0in a massive upset in Week 9, the Packers scored…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11083,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11084","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hot-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t