Green Bay Packers: Edgerrin Cooper has run out of patience with the finishing talk

Edgerrin Cooper gave reporters five sentences on Sunday and one of them was about being finished with the subject. The Green Bay Packers defense held Minnesota to 239 total yards, knocked Kyler Murray out of the game in the first quarter and intercepted his first pass. It then gave up 22 points in the fourth quarter of a 39-22 loss at U.S. Bank Stadium.

Cooper did not want to do the postgame version of this again.

Edgerrin Cooper: 'I don't want to talk about it no more'

"No, just correct the things we need to correct," Cooper said. "We didn't finish. I'm tired of saying this every time. I don't want to talk about it no more, but it's what we got to do. So we just got to figure it out."

Green Bay ran 21 times for 66 yards and did not score after the third quarter.

"I don't think it's a question of the guys we have in the room," right tackle Zach Bako-Bewele said. "I think it's more so, can we execute and make plays when you need them?"

The defense played well enough for most of three quarters

Minnesota ran 61 plays for 239 yards and averaged 3.9 per snap. The Vikings threw for 151 yards as a team. Green Bay got three sacks and an interception and forced Minnesota into a 38-yard field goal on its only first-half scoring drive that did not end in the end zone.

LaFleur said the flags, not the coverage, extended the drives that mattered.

"Yeah, I thought our defense played really well," he said. "You know, again, there were some unfortunate penalties we had that extended drives, and then I thought in the fourth quarter especially, offensively we put them in some really tough positions."

Green Bay was flagged 12 times for 98 yards. Five of those penalties gave Minnesota a first down. The Vikings were flagged three times all afternoon.

Carson Wentz replaced the concussed Murray in the first quarter and threw three touchdown passes, two of them to Justin Jefferson . T.J. Hockenson caught the other. Aaron Jones and Jordan Mason ran for scores in the fourth, and Minnesota converted a two-point pass to Jefferson to take the lead for good.

The pass rush is still waiting on Micah Parsons

Green Bay played without Micah Parsons, who is on the reserve/physically unable to perform list while he recovers from the torn ACL that ended his 2025 season and is ineligible to return before Week 5. Lukas Van Ness and the rest of the front got six quarterback hits.

CBS sideline reporter Tracy Wolfson said during Sunday's broadcast that she asked Parsons whether he has Week 6 against the Dallas Cowboys circled. He left the date open and told her, "We will see," per Dallas Sports Journal.

Franklin's read on the opener was more forward-looking than Cooper's.

"We're not matching anybody's intensity, we set the tone for how we play," Franklin said. "Minnesota's just the first test. It's going to be good to put that on tape and let the league know what the Green Bay Packers defense is all about."

Safety Evan Williams put the fourth quarter on the details.

"Just having the mental fortitude late in the game when you're tired, when it's late in drives to find a way to get off the field and do exactly what you're supposed to do," Williams said. "I feel like we put ourselves in a good spot, but at the end of the day, I said it before, but can't leave it up to the refs to make those type of calls."

Green Bay plays at the New York Jets on Sunday at noon CT.

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