Green Bay Packers head coach Mike McCarthy met with the media on Wednesday in advance of the upcoming match-up with the Buffalo Bils.

The following are select comments from his press conference:

• On Davon House being held out of practice: Davon hurt his shoulder. We're still looking at it. I do not see him being available tomorrow for practice.
• On Bills quarterback Kyle Orton: Kyle Orton I think is an excellent addition, ten years in the league. I've always thought he's been very productive. … He has a complete understanding of the offense. He can make all the throws.
• More on Orton: Definitely, he's played a lot of football. He's been in a number of different systems.
• On if House's injury was related to a shoulder injury from years past: It doesn't really have anything to do with any past injury.
• On Bills rookie wide receiver Sammy Watkins: Sammy Watkins, big athletic receiver. I think he's made the adjustment to the NFL. … He has an excellent catching radius. Very good young player.
• On the importance of avoiding turnovers: The Buffalo Bills do a great job in their coverage units. I think they're No. 2 in the league in takeaways. … We have three players on our team that played against the Buffalo eight years ago. It's an old-style stadium. It's an electric atmosphere. So we have to take care of the football.
• On Ralph Wilson Stadium: I think anytime you have communication challenges, you have to overcome it. … It's one of the louder places we'll play this year.
• On the Bills defensive line: When you look at their defense, it clearly starts up front. They get a lot of production with a four-man rush. … They're playing very well.
• On avoiding the rookie wall: You have your practice structure. When you get to December, things adjust. … We continue to do our fundamentals each and every week.
• On the practice structure late in the season: I think you have to conscientious of your workload in the fourth quarter of the season, and I think we have. … We're very fortunate in our facilities to do a lot of classroom, a lot of walkthroughs without having to go down to the Hutson Center.
• On the importance of Sunday's game: They need it, we need it. And that's really our mindset… and we definitely need to get to 11 wins.
• On Eddie Lacy and his hip injury: Eddie was in good spirits and we'll see what he does tomorrow.
• On Sam Barrington: Sam's doing well. He's earned this opportunities. Last week he was the game ball winner. … Sam's doing some good things.
• On the Packers defense's second-half struggles against Atlanta: I thought we started the game just the way you'd like. … I thought the preparation showed up in the beginning of the game. We didn't sustain it in the second half.
• On the running back rotation: It's a couple different variables … based on what they do is another variable. It's never written down in stone how we're going to do it.
• On Brad Jones: Brad has played a lot of football for us in the middle and I know what happened in the second half. I will never apologize for a win in December.
• On the team make-up: It's about people, and this game will always be about the people. We're fortunate right now, we have a good culture. … This particular group is very consistent. They answer the bell.
• On personnel evaluation: I think there's definitely a part of it in the evaluation process. You identify players you want to bring into our program. … Everybody's wired differently. Some need more development than others.
• On the fallout from the Falcons game: It's the game of football. You talk about communication. We have a game management report that's done each and every game, and it's not always positive. … There's always things to learn from. Then from that you have the schematic. How did you line up and addresst heir strengths. … At the end of the day, good teams find ways to win and the offense picked up for the defense.