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At his weekly Monday press conference, Green Bay Packers head coach Mike McCarthy made it clear what the main factor in his defense’s inability to stop Philip Rivers and the Chargers was on Sunday.
It’s very simple: A lack of communication.
“The big plays made on our defense were obvious,” McCarthy said. “The breakdowns in pass coverage all go back to communication. A number of the communication errors we had put our guys in bad situations on the big plays.”
In the Packers 45-38 win over the Chargers, Rivers threw for 385 yards and four scores, including two in the final 10 minutes of the fourth quarter that pulled San Diego within seven points. McCarthy also said that you can’t “quantify the errors with one player’s absence,” in reference to the Packers losing Pro Bowl safety Nick Collins in Week 2 against the Panthers. Collins is out for the season with a neck injury and Charlie Pepra...
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Philip Rivers,
Nick Collins,
Charlie Peprah,
Morgan Burnett,
Mike Neal,
Frank Zombo,
Charles Woodson,
Aaron Rodgers,
James Starks,
Ryan Grant
TEAMS: San Diego Chargers, Green Bay Packers, Minnesota Vikings
TEAMS: San Diego Chargers, Green Bay Packers, Minnesota Vikings
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