GREEN BAY – The Packers’ coordinators met with the media Thursday. Here’s a sampling of their key comments.
Special teams coordinator Rich Bisaccia
On stopping the fake punt in Detroit:
Well, they’ve had two successful fake punts this year, so I think if you remember the Kansas City game (in Week 1), they had one almost in the same territory. So, we talked about it before the game, they’re a really good unit. We were in a good front I thought if they were going to run something at that particular spot and we ended up making a good play. It wasn’t anything that we just kind of sniffed out, or knew or anything, but when you go into a game like that and the game is close, teams are looking to try steal a possession some way if they can. They tried there and I’ve been on both ends of those, when you stop ’em, and I’ve been on the other end when you don’t, when they make a good play. So it was good for our team.
On Daniel Whelan pinning the Lions deep multiple times:
Yeah, I think it was what, the 9, the 9 and the 2. It was a great play by Scooter (Robert Rochell) over there and I think he (Whelan) is getting better. We go back to the Atlanta game and we were on the 38 and he kicked a ball in the end zone, right, and everybody was upset about it and it was a learning experience. We’re going to go through it with both (kickers). We talked about it. I think the calming force for us has been Matt (Matt Orzech), to some degree. He’s played a lot of football, but they’re both, we think, on the uptick and I just think they have to keep working.
On Anders Carlson‘s demeanor:
If we go back to when we first got him, one of the things we liked the most about him is his mental makeup, his ability to move on after a good kick, his ability to move on after a bad kick, and that’s where we’re all looking for is growth, how these guys handle mental toughness. In our opinion, mental toughness is being the best regardless of the circumstance, so I think whatever you did before, you have to learn from it, adjust and then move forward and we think he’s been pretty good at that. Hopefully it’ll stay that way. He’s our kicker. We talked about it at the beginning. We have a lot of confidence that he can keep improving. We have a lot of confidence that the battery can keep improving as time goes on and let’s see if we can play — they always remember December in the National Football League, so we’ll see…
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