GREEN BAY — If the Green Bay Packers wide receivers go above and beyond in their efforts Sunday with backup Brett Hundley at quarterback, the leader of their pack, Jordy Nelson, is going to have an issue with it.

“People say, ‘Everyone needs to do a little bit more now.’ If you ask me, if you’re doing a little bit more now, why weren’t you doing a little bit more a little while ago?” Nelson said as the Packers prepped for their first game without quarterback Aaron Rodgers since 2013 — when the two-time NFL MVP also broke a collarbone. “Just be yourself, be confident, and make the plays. To me, it can’t change.

“Because if all the sudden you can do more, you’ve been letting us down for the last however many weeks and years. So just go out and do what you’re supposed to do.”

While Nelson is right in terms of effort, he and fellow veteran wide receivers Randall Cobb and Davante Adams can make Hundley’s life easier — and take some of the pressure off him — during Sunday’s game against New Orleans by being more effective at the aspects of their games they’re always supposed to do, including getting open quickly off the line of scrimmage, running precise routes and making defenders miss when they have the ball in their hands.

“The most important thing they can do is focus on just doing their job,” offensive coordinator Edgar Bennett said. “The focus has to be on the individual — how can I improve? How can I get better? What am I doing? I don’t think it’s necessary to overthink it or worry about Brett. I think it’s more about the individual and what are they doing to create separation and make the contested catch.”

Added Adams: “(It’s about) giving him somewhere to go with the ball, being open, just being as crisp, making sure we repeat things we need to repeat to make sure he gets it cleanly.”

Packers coach Mike McCarthy said perhaps the biggest challenge for the receivers will be making sure their timing aligns with Hundley. They spent Wednesday and Thursday’s practices trying to get in sync, but doing so at game speed still will be an adjustment.

“Anytime you’re talking about a timing passing game, the precision and rhythm of the quarterback and your receivers is obviously a key,” McCarthy said. “So that’s something that we’re spending extra time on.”

In addition, as Nelson himself will admit, as much as the receivers might believe in what Hundley can do with a week of preparation after struggling after Rodgers was injured last week at Minnesota, he doesn’t have Rodgers’ experience.

“Because Aaron can cover a lot of things up,” Nelson said. “He knows the playbook in and out. He knows the defenses in and out. He knows what he wants. So if something doesn’t sound right, it triggers in his head, and he can change it to what he wants.

“I’m sure Brett has some of that ability, but not as much experience as Aaron does.”

With that in mind, the receivers have been supporting their quarterback — “Positive reinforcement, obviously,” Adams said — and expressing their confidence in him but also being direct in telling him what they need him to do, too.

“You have to make sure that he understands that you believe in him, that you have confidence in him. But at the same time, you have to be hard on him in certain situations and plays,” Cobb said. “You have to make sure that he knows that he’s got to get the ball out quick or he has to do this or that. Just make sure that it’s known that we’re going to hold him to that standard as well.”

While making sure they play up to their own standards.

“I think that’s the biggest thing that as a young quarterback, especially when you have guys around you, if you can just get those guys the ball and let them make plays for you, that makes the game a lot easier for you,” Cobb said. “We can’t try to do too much because Aaron’s not here; we have to continue to make the plays that are there.

“(For example), the most important thing for me is breaking tackles. Whenever I’m breaking tackles, I think it makes our offense a lot harder to stop. Whenever Jordy’s making plays down the field, that makes our offense very hard to stop. So just us collectively, we have to do our part.”