GREEN BAY, Wis. -- Of all the things that went wrong for the Green Bay Packers in Sunday’s loss at Washington -- and there were plenty of them -- the two that irked coach Mike McCarthy the most came with his defense on the field.

The Packers' inability to create any takeaways and a lapse in judgment by one of those players charged with creating them raised McCarthy’s ire Monday.

The game was already in hand when pass-rusher Datone Jones was penalized for stepping on Redskins left tackle Ty Nsekhe after Washington’s last touchdown of their 42-24 win over the Packers. It was the Packers’ second unsportsmanlike penalty of the game on defense. The other, Mike Daniels’ late hit on quarterback Kirk Cousins after a third-down incompletion, led to a field goal in what at the time was a three-point game.

“Datone’s, there’s no excuse for,” McCarthy said. “I mean, that’s nonsense. We don’t need that. Mike Daniels, I mean shoot, that’s a tough one. Obviously, we’re off the field there. We know what happened after that as far as their performance against our defense. Mike is being aggressive, he’s rushing there. I don’t really fault him on that. But the post-whistle stuff, I wouldn’t put Mike Daniels in that category.”

Neither Daniels nor Jones -- or anyone else on the Packers' defensive front -- made any impact plays to help make up for the problems in the secondary. Cousins picked on just about every member of the Packers’ secondary and had a pair of touchdowns on deep balls -- a 44-yarder to Jamison Crowder against Quinten Rollins and a 70-yarder to Pierre Garcon against LaDarius Gunter.

It was the Packers' second straight game without a takeaway and third in the last four games, all losses. Their only two takeaways in that stretch came from safety Ha Ha Clinton-Dix, who picked off Andrew Luck twice in the Week 9 game against the Colts.

The Packers have just seven interceptions this season, and only one by a cornerback -- Damarious Randall, who hasn’t played in more than a month. They haven't had more than two sacks in a game since Week 5 against the Giants.

At minus-6, the Packers’ turnover differential is worse than all but four teams in the league.

“The biggest hole in our football team is our turnover ratio,” McCarthy said. “I’ve been talking about it all year. We’re not taking care of the football, we’re not taking the football way. Until that changes, we’re going to be fighting uphill. That’s is A-No. 1. We can’t control the health of the football team, but we need to get the turnover ratio turned because that is not cutting it.”

McCarthy said he spent part of Monday in the defensive meeting reviewing film of missed opportunities for turnovers.

“We’re on the breaking point of the ball, we’re having those opportunities,” McCarthy said. “Just look at Nick [Perry’s] first sack early in the game; that’s a sack-fumble opportunity and we don’t quite get the ball out. We need to learn from that. We’ve done it. We can do it, we’ve got video of us doing it, we practice it. We have to get it to show up Monday night against the Eagles.”