Green Bay Packers kicker Mason Crosby (2) is congratulated by wide receiver Randall Cobb (18) after kicking the winning field goal during overtime in an NFL football game against the Cincinnati Bengals in Cincinnati, Sunday, Oct. 10, 2021. The Packers defeated the Bengals 25-22 in overtime. (AP Photo/Bryan Woolston)

They’re missing their 2020 All-Pro left tackle, their best pass rusher and their top cornerback. They’re not scoring as frequently or winning as decisively as they did last season.

Yet somehow and some way, the Green Bay Packers have made it through the first five games of the season with the same 4-1 record they owned a year ago.

They’re just making their victories a little more suspenseful this year. Consider the Packers’ 25-22 overtime victory at Cincinnati on Sunday a prime example.

“That just goes to show the type of men we have in our locker room,” Packers linebacker De’Vondre Campbell said after the game. “Nobody flinched. Nobody complained. Nobody did anything but their job and we were able to handle business and get the victory. That’s what good football teams do. They find a way to get it done.”

Twice in the last three weeks, the Packers have nearly lost a game they controlled most of the way, only to find a way to win at the end. Mason Crosby has played a major role both times, for very different reasons.

Crosby kicked a 51-yarder as time expired to give the Packers a 30-28 victory at San Francisco after the 49ers scored a go-ahead touchdown with 37 seconds left. In the Bengals game, Crosby ended a franchise-record string of 27 consecutive successful field-goal attempts by missing three straight to keep the Packers from wrapping up the victory before he finally made a 49-yarder in overtime.

“We stuck together and that’s all that mattered at the end,” running back Aaron Jones said. “We didn’t blink or flinch. That’s the testament of a good team.”

So is the Packers’ ability to withstand injuries.

David Bakhtiari, the 2020 All-Pro left tackle, hasn’t played all season. Outside linebacker Za’Darius Smith and cornerback Zaire Alexander – both Pro Bowl picks last year – are on injured reserve and won’t return anytime soon.

The Packers also played Sunday’s game without 2020 Pro Bowl selection Elgton Jenkins and starting center Josh Myers on the offensive line. Wide receiver Marquez Valdes-Scantling missed a second straight game.

Cornerback Kevin King joined the long list of injured Packers when he hurt a shoulder Sunday.

“He was playing a lot of that game, or part of that game, with basically one arm,” Packers coach Matt LaFleur said Monday. “So I thought he competed well and was playing really, really well.”

UNLUCKY LIONS:

DETROIT (AP) — Dan Campbell wasn’t nearly as emotional Monday afternoon as he had been after his Detroit Lions lost 19-17 to the Minnesota Vikings on another last-second field goal.

He still wasn’t happy.

The Lions coach choked up repeatedly during his postgame news conference Sunday, moments after the Lions had become the first team in NFL history to lose two games on last-play field goals of 50 yards or more in the same season. Justin Tucker hit a league-record 66-yarder for the Baltimore Ravens on Sept. 26 — a game that also finished 19-17 — before Greg Joseph’s 54-yarder on Sunday.

GRUDEN RESIGNS:

Jon Gruden has resigned as coach of the Las Vegas Raiders after emails he sent before being hired in 2018 contained racist, homophobic and misogynistic comments.

Special teams and assistant head coach Rich Bisaccia will take over on an interim basis.