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The Packers Are Confusing

When Brian Gutekunst and the front office drafted Jordan Love to be the heir to Aaron Rodgers, what is happening this season HAD to have been one of the possibilities that crossed their minds. Yet they seem like they have no idea how to handle the current situation.

Green Bay is content for the time being after beating the Bears in Chicago, and Rodgers showing that he still owns the greater Chicago area. But we still have a dilemma. A-Rodg has not looked like an MVP this season. Whether it is regression, losing Davantae, losing his QB coach and OC, being injured almost the entire year, or a combination of all of that, Rodgers and the Pack are experiencing a rare losing season. We got to see a bit of what Jordan Love can do against the Eagles last week, and he looked awesome. He has learned from Rodgers and you can see that in his laser quick release that is reminiscent of his elder teammate.

Those passes against the Eagles would have been all we needed to see to shut down an injured Rodgers for the season. What point is there in throwing an injured quarterback out and risking further injury? And we’d get to see what we have in Jordan Love and up his trade value or be comfortable trading away Rodgers. Instead, we’re rolling out an injured 39-year-old QB in a nearly meaningless last few games of the season.

Let’s see what we have in the Christian Watson and Jordan Love duo and get fans excited again. An offseason quarterback controversy is an easy way to make a football-less few months of summer go by a bit quicker. Make it happen Gute and LaFleur!

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What Should Jordan Love do Next?

It doesn’t take a football genius to figure out what the Packers were thinking when they drafted Jordan Love. In 2005 they drafted Aaron Rodgers to be the heir to the reverse Robinhood, Brett Favre, and that worked out brilliantly, to say the least. Rodgers sat behind Favre for three years and took over the starting role at the beginning of his fourth. If the front office planned on following that plan, Love should be starting next year.

That obviously isn’t what looks like is going to happen, as Arod is coming off of back-to-back MVPs and signed a three-year extension that does not even begin until the 2024 season.

So that leads us to the question what are the Packers going to do with Jordan Love? Here are a few serious options.

  1. Move to defense and play defensive tackle
    • It might be too early to tell, but it certainly looks as if the Packers whiffed on DT Devonte Wyatt with the 28th overall pick. He has been too shitty at practice to even put on the field, so we might as well have one 1st round pick playing DT. Just lean into the Wisconsin lifestyle and go comatose on some fried cheese curds and Miller Genuine Drafts.
  2. Sign an extension to be a career backup to Rodgers
    • I always jokingly said that being a backup QB who has no chance of actually playing meaningful snaps is maybe the best gig in all of sports. I assume Jordan Love wants to start at some point, but no one would blame him if he wanted to wear a visor, and headset, and hold a clipboard for the rest of his career. A lot safer than getting drilled by the freaks that play defense nowadays.
  3. Go play backup point guard for the Bucks
    • George Hill was a liability for the Bucks in the playoffs last year, and Jordan Love tested phenomenally at the combine, and I assume he played at least some basketball in high school and dominated a few pickup games at Utah State. Put him out there for 15 minutes a night, what’s the worst that can happen?
  4. Retire
    • No one would blame Love if he decided to hang it up to avoid more Packers QB drama and the uncertainty of playing on a prove-it deal somewhere else where the microscope would be on him on every snap. He could call it quits and be an analyst for NFL, or a great motivational speaker where he gives the same “How to get paid for doing nothing” presentation at convention centers all over the country. Lord knows I would attend and listen to his advice.