INDIANAPOLIS -- Colts coach Chuck Pagano decided to take a page out of New England Patriots coach Bill Belichick’s playbook on Wednesday in handling the media.

Pagano was asked about the recent poor play of starting left tackle Anthony Castonzo, whom the Colts gave a four-year, $43 million contract in 2015.

“Our focus is on Green Bay and Green Bay only,” Pagano said about the Colts' Week 9 opponent.

Chuck Pagano seemed a little on edge on Wednesday with his team at 3-5 and a date at Green Bay on Sunday. Robin Alam/Icon Sportswire

The reporter responded by reminding Pagano that Castonzo is their starting left tackle, which means his primary responsibility is to protect the blind side of quarterback Andrew Luck, the team’s $140 million franchise player.

“So he’s focusing on this game,” Pagano retorted. “This is the next game.”

Belichick’s line of “We’re on to Cincinnati” became a hot topic of conversation when he continued to say it after he was bombarded with questions about quarterback Tom Brady after the Patriots were blown out by the Kansas City Chiefs, the same team the Colts lost to last weekend, during the 2014 season.

The Colts are struggling like they never have before with a healthy Luck. They’re 3-5, two games behind the Houston Texans in the AFC South.

A loss to the Packers in Green Bay on Sunday will give the Colts their worst start during the Pagano-Luck-general manager Ryan Grigson regime. Indianapolis hasn’t missed the playoffs in back-to-back years since 1997-98.

Pagano’s tune Wednesday was the complete opposite from two weeks ago when he was more upbeat and loose after his team blew a 14-point lead in the final three minutes of regulation in their overtime loss to the Texans on Oct. 16.

“You can’t coach tight; you can’t play tight,” he said on Oct. 21. “We know where we are at, we know we are a good football team, so now it’s a matter of putting it all together for four quarters. Eliminate some mistakes here and there, keep working, keep chopping wood. You keep chopping, the tree will fall. You guys are going to get hit with something because it’s life.

“You are going to get hit with something that is going to be really hard and you are going to think it’s a doomsday scenario. It’s just going to happen, that’s just how life is. You can fold the tent, you can throw in the towel, or you can have faith and you can believe and you can keep fighting and keep chopping wood one day at a time and you will get through your circumstances.”