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Mike McCarthy deserves blame for Packers’ slow starts

Take away last week’s win against the Bills, and the Green Bay Packers have been outscored by their opponents 56-27 in the first half this season.

In three of Green Bay’s five games — versus Chicago, at Washington and at Detroit — they have made slow starts. They are lucky to be 1-2 in those games. That falls on head coach Mike McCarthy.

The Packers made an awful start in Sunday’s loss to the Lions.

Everything went wrong. A Lions punt hit Kevin King, giving possession back to Detroit on the Packers’ one-yard line.