GREEN BAY, WIS. (AP) – Protect the football and everything should be repaired.

This seems to be the view of Mike McCarthy, whose problems with the Green Bay Packers led to a series of problems that led to a 2-2-1 start.

"Most of this game is focused on things we can control," McCarthy said Monday, one day after his team's loss to Detroit, 31-23, after digging a 24-hole hole 0. "We have to take care of football."

The Packers returned the ball three times on Sunday. Quarterback Aaron Rodgers lost two fumbles and the ball took a look at cornerback Kevin King while he was blocking on a punt in the first quarter.

Green Bay did not impose a turnaround on the defense, and after five games, the Packers posted a minus-2 differential. They lost him eight times (six fumbles, two interceptions) and six balls (two fumbles, four interceptions). ).

McCarthy said he thought the turnarounds had caused his team to lose the battle for positions on the ground; he had the Packers at under-300 in terms of hidden distance.

While he admitted that veteran Mason Crosby had missed five times – four placement attempts and one more point – also accounted for in the defeat on Sunday, McCarthy said the Packers' difficulties went beyond the 13 remaining points on the ground.

"The common denominator lies in the turnarounds, which obviously has the effect of advancing the position on the ground," McCarthy said, noting that Green Bay had outscored 521 yards over Detroit. "The question is, I am very happy with the way we have moved football."

In three of their games this season, the Packers recorded a two-digit backlog: 20-0 at the start of the third quarter against Chicago, 28-10 at halftime in Washington and 24-0 at halftime on Sunday.

Rodgers largely blamed the blame publicly after the match, acknowledging that "I must play better in the first period".

"It's frustrating – we're sort of a half-team: a good one and a less good one," said Rodgers, who completed the game with 32 assists in 52 assists for a total of 442 yards with three touchdowns and no interception. (108.0 scoring of the smuggler). "I was a little behind, I missed a couple that I usually hit, we missed a few chances there."

"(It was) really a disjointed game – do not track, get offended and not win the match."

The offense was not the only side of the ball that was disjointed.

Against Washington, for example, Green Bay dropped 323 yards in the first half and only 63 in the second half. Against the Lions, the defense allowed 160 of the 264 yards and 24 of the 31 points scored in the first half.

"We have to organize a full match," HaH Clinton-Dix said on Monday. "Make more games, finish the tackles, improve this defense.If we can criticize ourselves and determine what we can do better as individuals, I think we will be better overall.

"As DB, we want to catch interceptions and take advantage of the opportunities we have, it's a long season, we have to take advantage of our opportunities when we get them and when they come in, come in Clusters: We just have to play games when the time comes. "

The Packers also had trouble getting penalties, scoring 12 versus 112 against Detroit. For the season, Green Bay made 43 penalties for 413 yards; opponents of the Packers were scored 30 times for 262 yards.

"Whether it's a slow start, a quick finish, a breakaway in the middle, everything is irrelevant because if you do not deal with football, there will be other negative statistics that will result," McCarthy said. . "It is not a sport close enough, we get it, we did not win the game.

"It's part of the challenge at the beginning of the season, we need to go a little further, penalties were another negative point, but taking care of football and penalties was an important part of our failure to achieve the goal we were fixed. "

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