The Green Bay Packers’ three-game winning streak was ended by the Detroit Lions in an agonizing 20-17 Week 7 loss. There were several contentious calls during the game, including two roughing-the-passer penalties on Jared Goff, one of them against Karl Brooks on Detroit’s game-winning drive.

After the Packers players’ postgame complaints about the officiating, Super Bowl champion Chris Canty blasted the franchise for their excuses after every loss.

Chris Canty Slams Green Bay Packers’ Excuses After Week 7 Loss

During Monday’s segment of the “Unsportsmanlike,” Canty accused Green Bay of always finding excuses to justify the team’s losses.

“Always somebody else’s fault when it comes to the Packers losing, ain’t it? You ever notice that with this team?” Canty said. “It’s never ‘We didn’t play good enough,'”

The most controversial call in the game came when Amon-Ra St. Brown appeared to go down after a 4-yard gain, but he got up and kept running, prompting defensive tackle Devonte Wyatt to tackle him again.

In the process, St. Brown appeared to kick umpire Terry Killens Jr. in the midriff, but the referees then threw a flag for unnecessary roughness on Wyatt.

The penalty gave Detroit a fresh set of downs from a third-and-seven at Green Bay’s 23-yard line to their 11-yard line, and quarterback Jared Goff found wide receiver Jameson Williams for a 10-yard touchdown to take a 17-14 lead.

During his postgame news conference, All-Pro safety Xavier McKinney ranted against the referees’ calls during the game. On the other hand, coach Matt Lafleur treaded carefully and explained why Wyatt tackled St. Brown again, resulting in the flag.

“I don’t even want to comment on any of the penalties,” LaFleur said. “It is what it is. You got to play above it, and I thought there were some tough calls, but it is what it is. There was no whistle blown, and the guy continued to run, and our guy didn’t hear a whistle, he continued to play too, and then we get called for a penalty.

“So I don’t know. They were trying to tell me the play was obviously dead. I’m like, ‘How do you know if you don’t hear a whistle?’ So I don’t know if you guys heard a whistle, I did not hear a whistle.”

The Packers incurred 8 penalties for 81 yards, while the Lions had 5 penalties for 50 yards. Despite the contentious calls, Green Bay had several chances to pull off the win, including two missed field goals by kicker Trey Smack, a first-quarter 26-yarder, and a partially blocked fourth-quarter 35-yarder.

Green Bay converted 5 of 15 third-down attempts, and the Packers’ offensive struggles reared their heads once again, justifying the team’s PFN Offense Impact score of 72.1 (No. 23 in the NFL). The loss dropped the Packers to 4-3 for the season and reversed the optimism that had begun to build around LaFleur’s team.