GREEN BAY – Head Coach Matt LaFleur couldn't have been happier to see his defense rise up with consecutive sacks on Jacksonville's final drive Sunday to help preserve the Packers' 24-20 win.

But it left him wondering where that intensity had been all afternoon at Lambeau Field, and he spent most of his postgame news conference expressing his dismay at an otherwise listless performance.

"I felt like that was the first time our team came alive," LaFleur said of the final sequence, which featured back-to-back sacks by Rashan Gary and Preston Smith, followed by a stop on fourth-and-26. "You could feel it on the sidelines (with) everybody rooting for one another. We need that from the opening kick. That's the standard. We can't just pick and choose when we want to do that."

Doing it at the end of the game was good enough, barely, on this particular Sunday, but it's not going to cut it against better teams, and LaFleur knows it.

"Yeah, the game's on the line, so it's easy to get up for that," he said. "We have got to do a better job from before we start the game to show that kind of energy, show that kind of emotion, show that kind of support for one another that we saw at the end of the game. And if we don't get that, we're not going to be at our best."

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