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GREEN BAY – Over the past couple of days, the Packers' coordinators and defensive assistant coaches met with the media. Here's a summary of their key comments:
Defensive coordinator Mike Pettine
On getting more turnovers and sacks:
It's been disappointing and one of the reasons it's disappointing is 'cause as I've mentioned before we're doing a much better job of attacking the football and we've had a bunch, a bunch close which accounts for nothing. But it's encouraging to see the progression we've made, but equally discouraging that we don't have the results. Interception-wise, we've had some drops. It's our old rule, catch the ones they throw to us, and when we get those opportunities, you know with the quality quarterbacks that we're playing, they're so few and far between, we've got to take advantage of them. We have to. It's been frustrating for sure, but we also don't want to get to the point where we let that affect us, where we start looking for it and we start chasing it. That's when you get into trouble.
On being more aggressive with blitzes:
A lot of factors go into it. It's situational, it's the status of the game, it's how we feel about a certain matchup, it's also down-and-distance driven. You might have a range of yardage where when they get in a grouping and this D and D, this is where we want to pull the trigger on this and sometimes that area of your call sheet goes untapped because those situations don't come up. And then some of it is opponent-driven. When you're playing quarterbacks that get the ball out quick, are well over 100 and tops in the league in QB rating when they're being pressured, you've got to pick and choose your moments. We're not going to do it just to be reckless and just to say, 'Hey, we're doing it.' But, again, when we do bring pressure and we do bring five or more, then we need to effective, We just haven't been good enough at it.