There was a moment in Love's interview talking about leadership qualities he picked up from Rodgers and he was speaking to the urgency Rodgers always had with getting players up to par with the offense and calls and such that he for sure took from him...but at the same time he also at one point eluded to that is was OTAs are for, get that acclimation process started, let us form those relationships and bonds....it is stuff like that and you hear it from everyone, illustrating the importance of them, I'm happy all of our guys are in house even if rehabbing on sidelines and such. Makes me happy.
For the record, Jaire Alexander, David Bakhtiari, Rasul Douglas, Jonathan Garvin, Elgton Jenkins, Dallin Leavitt and Preston Smith weren't present for this week's OTA practice open for the media.
Although I would call it a push between Rodgers and Love on win total playing for the Packers in 2023, I think the odds are greater that Love wins a SB. The odds are long, but I dont think Rodgers had much of any shot. And when you look over the next 5 years, going with Love gives us a much better shot at a Lombardi.
While I don't think the Packers would have had any chance of winning a Super Bowl with Rodgers this season I fully expect they would have won more games with him starting instead of Love. It's unrealistic to truly believe they have a better chance at a Lombardi Trophy in 2023 with a first year starting quarterback.
Bingo...winner winner, chicken dinner. The Packers now have money to spend on other players, extra draft picks and of course hopefully, a budding young QB.
That last part is the huge question mark nobody knows about entering this season. If Love doesn't end up being a budding quarterback the extra players and money won't help a lot.
Although I think Jordan’s INT totals in his Junior college season was an anomaly result from drastic global changes in coaches and Offensive Personnel. If we include that funky season Jordan was still greater than 2:1 TD/INT ratio. So his college performance couldn’t have initiated any major concern.
Once again, Love throwing the most interceptions in the FBS in 2019 is reason for concern. It's possible that won't be an issue in the NFL but there's no way of knowing at this point. In addition he fumbled another 13 times that season.
Another thing to consider is that in 2018 he primarily had impressive numbers against three terrible opponents (UNLV, New Mexico and San Jose State - 14 TDs, 0 INTs) which combined for a record of 8-28 while playing in the mighty Mountain West Conference. On the other side, he had only four TDs but eight INTs in four games against teams from Power-5 conferences in his college career.
With that being said, I'm not considering him a bust because of it by any means (I'm quite sure some of you will ignore that anyway). There's reason to be skeptical about him though. And until he can prove he's a legit NFL starter none of us will truly know.
2011 Giants
50/50 Offense and Defense sucked
2012
Defense sucked
2013
Injury
2014
Special Teams/Defense meltdown
2015
Offense sucked
2016
50/50 Offense and Defense sucked
2017
Injury
2018
50/50 Offense and Defense sucked
2019
50/50 Offense and Defense sucked
2020
50/50 Offense and Defense sucked
2021
Offense sucked
2022
ST meltdown
*There’s 2 seasons where Aaron was healthy and our Offense was middling in Postseason, 1 cost us an NFC match and 1 cost us a SB match.*I don’t put 2015 on Aaron that was a weaker group around him.
It's true the offense didn't play well for most of the game against the Cardinals in 2015 but you might want to take a look back how that game finished. With less than two minutes remaining Rodgers completed two Hail Marys to Jeff Janis to tie the game just for the defense to give up a touchdown on Arizona's first possession in overtime without the Packers getting the ball back. That loss wasn't solely on the offense.
*There 5 more seasons that I’d split the blame on both O+D. If we’re being fair and split those 5 games we could say Offense was responsible for at minimum 2 losses.
I mostly blame the 2020 loss to the Bucs on the defense. While everyone remembers the offense not being able to score a touchdown after getting a first-and-goal from the 8-yard line they played a pretty good game against an elite defense. I mostly blame that one on the defense. In addition the special team meltdown was in 2021.
You are right, there were a lot of picks in that draft that ended up being duds. I'd Love to be able to repick most drafts, but that isn't how it's done. At least Gute seemed to have an eye towards the future and might have scored with the first pick of that draft.
- Round 1 (26): Jordan Love, QB, Utah State
- Round 2 (62): AJ Dillon, RB, Boston College
- Round 3 (94): Josiah Deguara, TE, Cincinnati
- Round 5 (175): Kamal Martin, LB, Minnesota
- Round 6 (192): Jon Runyan Jr., OL, Michigan
- Round 6 (208): Jake Hanson, C, Oregon
- Round 6 (209): Simon Stepaniak, OL, Indiana
- Round 7 (236): Vernon Scott, S, TCU
- Round 7 (242): Jonathan Garvin, EDGE, Miami (FL)
Unfortunately both Thompson and Gutekunst focused on the future much more than they did on the present. That's not a smart approach when having a team capable of contending for a Super Bowl though.
There were a lot of fans who wanted to redo the 2020 draft immediately after it happened, therefore criticism of it not working out is legit and not based on using hindsight.
