GREEN BAY – The Packers' coordinators spoke to the media on Thursday afternoon. Here are some highlights of their news conferences:

Offensive coordinator Joe Philbin

On how Chicago defended Jimmy Graham:

Initially get some hands on him and slow down his entry into the defense. Chicago is obviously an excellent football team. They have some different coverages. Jimmy has had a good week of practice and good camp. I'm sure he's going to get his share.

On Aaron Rodgers' effectiveness after injury:

The guy, his production as a starting quarterback in this league has been extremely impressive over a 10-year span. I think this was his 11th season opening start. He's a football player. Period. He finds a way to make plays when your team needs him to make plays. Hopefully, obviously, that's going to continue. It's just the kind of guys we have. It would have been easy to say things didn't bounce our way, but guys found ways to make plays.

On going to the quick-passing game in the second half and is it an over-simplification to think you can always do that?

We had some early in the first half. That's the beauty of the game, the momentum of the game, sometimes you just have to fight through some of that stuff to make a couple plays. I think it was the third-and-14 play. I think we were down 20-3. We went back to some old stuff we knew and have done well. We had good protection. Randall was running full speed through the defense, you'd thought he ran a 4.3 and the chance of him getting the ball was 2 percent. We just did things better. That's the beauty of football and the challenge of it to.

On what Sheldon Richardson brings to Minnesota's defense:

He looked good on film the other day. It looks like he's in good condition and has good get-off. He plays with leverage. He's a handful. He's a good football player. It's a good front. They've been in the defense for a while. They do a good job of scouting themselves. We're going to be going up against good plays every week. It's just a product of the league.

On Rodgers playing through injury: