GREEN BAY, Wis. — It's not that Ryan Fitzgerald isn't confident in all his teammates. He is. But with the Packers driving for a game-tying score in the fourth quarter, the rookie kicker looked at long snapper JJ Jansen as they waited in the fourth quarter.

"He looked me in the eye and he goes, 'Looks like it might be a day for a game-winner,'" Jansen said with a laugh. "And that was about it, right?"

The Panthers are beginning to get used to this kind of behavior from their rookie kicker, who hit his second walk-off game-winner in the last month, with a 49-yard field goal with one second left to beat the Packers 16-13 in Lambeau Field.

That was cool, but so is Fitzpatrick. As reporters crowded around him in a happy but not ecstatic postgame locker room, he laughed and said, "I've ne

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