Pick parade? After dropping four would-be interceptions against Giants, Packers defense aims to take advantage of Vikings’ J.J. McCarthy’s penchant for picks

GREEN BAY — Xavier McKinney stared directly into the camera lens, furrowed his brow, and spoke.

Slowly. Forcefully. Confidently.

“The picks are going to come. Just, believe me when I tell you. The. Picks. Will. Come,” the Green Bay Packers All-Pro safety said after practice Wednesday. “It's just not all the way there right now. But they will come, and when they do, I'm going to come back to the camera like, ‘I told you.’

“It's going to happen. Sometimes, you’ve got be patient. And once they do come, we’ve just got to make them.”

McKinney was addressing the subject of interceptions because he’d been party to one of the defense’s more frustrating performances last Sunday in a 27-20 road victory over the New York Giants at MetLife Stadium, and because the Packers’ opponent on Sunday, the