GREEN BAY, Wis. -- Eddie Lacy won’t ever turn down extra carries. What running back would?

So Green Bay Packers coach Mike McCarthy’s statement earlier this week that he wants to give his running backs more attempts sat well with Lacy.

Lacy also thinks it could help the passing game, which has been out of sync the first two weeks and has lacked the timing needed for a traditional West Coast offense to succeed.

“We pretty much just make the defense creep up to stop us at 2, 3, 4 yards, and that’s when the play-action game becomes a lot better,” Lacy said. “Because they’re creeping up so much that you’re able to get the passes over their heads.”

This past offseason, McCarthy said he hoped defenses played the Packers the same way they did in 2015, when they loaded up the box and dared Aaron Rodgers to throw deep, which he couldn’t do in the absence of Jordy Nelson.

Through two games this season, however, the Packers have seen a slightly different look. According to ESPN Stats & Information, opposing defenses have put seven or more in the box on 18.5 percent of the Packers’ offensive snaps. Last season, that number was 23.8 percent.

It might not seem like a significant change, but it should open up things for Lacy if the Packers can get him more attempts, which, according to McCarthy, is in the cards. Lacy carried 14 times in the opener at Jacksonville and just 12 times in Week 2 at Minnesota.

“If it was just one game and you combined his stats and you saw 26 carries for 111 yards and averaging almost 4.4 yards per carry, you would say he’s been relatively productive,” running backs coach Ben Sirmans said. “I’ve been pretty happy with him. Each game, he’s had an explosive run. Each game he’s had one of those runs where you’re like, ‘Dang, this guy’s hard to tackle.’ You saw that the one 10-yard run he had the last game, you saw it on the screen pass against Jacksonville. Even the one open-field play that he had when he made the guy miss in space. I think in terms of production and what he is physically right now, it’s just a matter of time for him to really, really start rolling.”

It’s been a typical start for Lacy, who in his past two seasons hasn’t hit the 20-carry mark in a game until the second half of the season.

“I wish he was averaging 24 handoffs a game and carries a game,” Sirmans said. “Sometimes, the flow of the game doesn’t dictate that. When you miss a couple of third downs where you have some three-and-outs or you’ve got a four-play drive, not getting those first downs, those are carries that would be going to him. That happened a little bit at different points in this last game. I would definitely like to see him carry the ball 20, 25 times a game. We’ll see when that happens. That’s what you expect going into each game, but it’s all based on what happens.

Either way, Lacy sounded ready for more, if called upon.

“You definitely can tire a defense out that way as well, but you’ve got to play within the offense,” Lacy said. “However it is. Like, one game, maybe we pass the ball a lot, and we know we have those guys running around a lot, and they get tired that way. So you can tire the defense out in a lot of different ways.”