GREEN BAY – Everyone has had the same question for Trey Smack.
Even Matt LaFleur.
“I’ve asked him twice now,” LaFleur said. “‘Can you kick in the cold?’ He had a good response for me.”
Which was?
“I said, ‘I can kick in the cold,’” Smack said. “That’s exactly what I said, and that was it.”
Smack didn’t miss many kicks at the University of Florida. He made 82.8 percent of his field-goal attempts in three seasons, including 10-of-13 from 50-plus yards. He missed only one extra point.
The frozen elephant in the room, of course, is Smack has never had to kick a big field goal in the snow or when the wind chill is minus-20. The challenge, according to former NFL kicker Matt Stover, is more mental than physical.
“Can you overcome the distraction of the conditions?” Stover, who played a pivotal role in Smack going from lacrosse player to sixth-round draft pick, told Packers On SI.
Stover would know. He was born in Dallas and played at Louisiana Tech.…