Green Bay is 4-2 on the season heading into Week 7 in Detroit after a 23-13 home win over the Cowboys that included a blunt postgame assessment from coach Matt LaFleur. LaFleur wants his team to focus on the details, something Jordan Love did well and linebacker Zaire Franklin's defense also excelled at in Week 6.

Franklin spoke to Matt Schneidman of The Athletic after the game during which he gave a warning on the Packers' hungry defense.

“I think it's just a credit to who we can be…Obviously we've got a lot of things we can clean up but I feel like we are a defense on the rise, every week we continue to get better and better…We got some stuff to clean up but I think the ceiling is extremely high.”

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Keisean Nixon led the Packers in tackles with eight, Franklin had three tackles, and Lukas Van Ness had a sack for the Packers' defense in a winning effort. Rookie Brandon Cisse joined in the fun with an exciting interception that occurred off a CeeDee Lamb slip. The sky is the limit heading into Week 7, and Franklin knows it as well as anyone.

Green Bay has the horses up front, at linebacker, and in the secondary to challenge any team in the league, soon it will be time to put the defense up against one of the league's best offenses, the Detroit Lions, in Detroit as Week 7 looms large for the growing, enduring NFC North title aspirations of Franklin and LaFleur's team.