Green Bay Packers: Jordan Love, future in full focus during preseason
It’s a welcoming sight to see football again, but the Green Bay Packers have more on the line during the preseason than any other team in the NFL.
The tension between the Green Bay Packers and 2020 MVP quarterback Aaron Rodgers needs little introduction. After Titletown’s draft selection of quarterback Jordan Love in the 2020 NFL Draft, the relationship between Rodgers and the front office has never been the same.
It’s one thing to move on from an aging quarterback and draft a young talent that fell in the draft, like what the Packers had done back in the 2005 NFL Draft to replace an aging Brett Favre with a promising stud out of Cal at No. 24 overall. It’s an entirely different thing to trade up for a quarterback in the first round when your guy is in his prime coming off an NFC Championship appearance and there are massive holes on the offense with plenty of talent on the board.
What makes this situation even harder to read for the Green Bay Packers is that there’s no clue as to how talented Love even is (or isn’t). Without a training camp nor preseason last year, Love was sitting third-string behind Tim Boyle in the depth chart and didn’t touch the ball once all year. Now, with the team making it clear that Love will receive significant reps during the preseason, the stakes have risen astronomically for the Green Bay Packers.
Jordan Love leading the Green Bay Packers in the preseason makes is astronomically important.
The future success for green and gold is dependent upon whether or not Jordan Love has what it takes to even play in the NFL, let alone replace arguably the best quarterback to ever grace the NFL. For the Packers to have faith that he’s their guy and that it was worth the pick, he needs to be unbelievable. There needs to be no doubt that he’s the man.
Should he have a poor preseason by any metric, general manager Brian Gutekunst will have a walk of shame we haven’t seen since Cersei Lannister in Game of Thrones. Aaron Rodgers will have a blank check for anything and anyone he desires to win a Super Bowl and more.
To say that there’s immense pressure on Jordan Love’s shoulders is a ghastly understatement. Heading into the first matchup of the waning summer, he’ll likely have a family-sized bottle of Pepto Bismol to get him through it.
Not even an average performance can save his skin. It needs to be one of the best preseason performances anyone has ever seen. The Green Bay Packers have risked losing a future hall of fame quarterback much sooner than anticipated because the franchise simply can’t be all in for the win now, but still, try to retain draft picks and build for the future. You can’t have your cake and eat it too.
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If Jordan Love balls out of his mind, then Rodgers will play his last year for the Pack in the 2021 NFL season and the Love Era will begin. Though if he falters in any form, big or small, the commitment to Aaron is mandatory, and the Utah State quarterback will be a piece of the biggest draft fail of all time. He has three nights to make his case to be the star, or three nights to prove that Green Bay fumbled the bag in the worst way possible.