Offensive coordinator John Morton, defensive coordinator Kelvin Sheppard, and special teams coordinator Dave Fipp spoke to the media Thursday as they do every week during the regular season. Here are my 10 biggest takeaways from those media sessions:
1. Sheppard felt pretty good overall about the defensive performance in Green Bay after watching the tape. He lamented a few plays, particularly the two-play, 65-yard touchdown drive on the Packers’ third possession of the game, but overall he wasn’t disappointed by the 188 passing yards and 78 rushing yards they allowed in the contest.
It’s worth noting those totals are off just 47 total plays run by Green Bay, which is almost 20 plays below the league average. Green Bay played most of the game with a big lead and offensive strategy changes when playing with that kind of lead. Packers quarterback Jordan Love threw just six passes in the second half.
2. Morton plans to put a little bit less on the plate of his players offensively from a game plan perspective so it will allow them to play a little faster. There were some things Morton liked offensively against the Packers but he admitted there was also plenty to clean up.
He said no one at the Meijer Performance Center is in panic mode with some of the struggles they had running the football or converting on third down and in the red zone.
“It’s being addressed, it’s being fixed,” he said.
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