To quote Dave Portnoy, “It’s time for an emergency press conference.” With the awful outing in Las Vegas, the fans – not even the media – have jumped all over Jordan Love. This comes less than a month after many of the same fans have said “The Packers did it again!” Now, almost by definition, fans are supposed to overreact, and a vast majority do. Also, a vast majority are wrong, almost always. I’m not immune to it either, however, the 2023 campaign is about one thing and one thing only; repetitions for the kids.

The Packers have the youngest team. As stated before, they have the youngest team in the NFL in the last 6 seasons. Goal #1 is to see what you have in Jordan Love. Yes he’s sat for 3 years behind Aaron, however there’s nothing that can replicate live bullets. He’s shown promise, quite a bit, and his production has waned as the offensive line play has as well as Aaron Jones’ availability has too. I’ve been advocating for Love to get at least a full season (ideally 2 full seasons) before moving on. That doesn’t mean the Packers can’t take a QB in next April’s draft, but it should allow Green Bay to fully understand what Jordan Love is.

Lastly, this was always going to be the case, growing pains. Many jump to the “he’s regressing, and it’s regressing against worst opposition.” They also make the case that these “pains” aren’t growth, they’re the same issues. “Is it coaching?” Again, without being in the meetings and on the sidelines in the play call, tough to say. However, the one way to guarantee getting an answer is allowing time to pass, roughly 30-34 games. Regardless of surrounding cast, we should have an idea whether Love will be good enough.

Let’s Play A Game

Here’s a chart of QB’s through their first 5 starts after taking the helm for their respective teams. There’s no right answer, however, I figured this is good for conversational stuff. Message who you’d like to have after their first 5 games and I’ll give you the answer as to who it is…

	QB1	QB2	Love	QB4	QB5
W/L	1-4	3-2	2-3	2-3	2-3
Comp	93	99	90	109	103
Att	169	159	162	169	163
Comp %	55.03%	62.26%	55.56%	64.50%	63.19%
Yards	1,129	1,023	1,083	1,135	1,274
TD	4	7	8	6	9
INT	12	4	6	2	4
Rating	54.1	85.0	77.3	90.7	95.5