3 bold offseason predictions for the Green Bay Packers in 2022
No. 1 – The Green Bay Packers Trade Quarterback Jordan Love
Enough is enough. It’s not good for the Green Bay Packers, and it’s not good for Jordan Love. It’s time to trade him for whatever you can scrape away and finally admit that you messed up and it almost cost you one of the best quarterbacks in NFL history to do it.
Drafting a quarterback in the 1st-round after missing the Super Bowl by one game is pretty drastic and a tad unnecessary. Trading up to draft one in the 1st-Round while having Aaron Rodgers is absolutely mental.
It doesn’t matter what the argument was at the time, whether it was “we want to have security in our future”, “Aaron has shown signs of slowing down”, “He was the best player on the board” because they’re all wrong.
When you’re one game shy of the Super Bowl after you had a below-average offense with a quarterback being your only bright spot throwing for 4,000 yards, 26 touchdowns, just four interceptions, and having a passer rating of 95.4, how could you possibly think that that’s the biggest issue with the team?
We know the rest of the story, Aaron Rodgers won back-to-back MVPs while Jordan Love played in just 2 1/2 total games with only one being a regular-season matchup and showed a whole lot of nothing. In fact, you could even go as far as to say that he looked rather bad for a guy taken in the 1st-Round of the NFL Draft.
He was scared and couldn’t complete a throw longer than five yards down the field. It doesn’t help that Rodgers is giving you the death stare all the while he’s doing this, but can you blame him? This was inarguably among the Top Five worst draft picks in NFL history.
It’s time to cut it off and admit all wrongdoing by trading away Jordan Love. It’d be astonishing if the Green Bay Packers could get anything more than a second-day draft pick for him. In his rookie year, he wasn’t even a backup on the roster. He was the backup to the backup. For a 6th-Round quarterback that’s fine, but for the guy you traded up for in the 1st-Round?
There’s a definite possibility that Love may never be a starting quarterback in the league, at least not after all the drama that he’s been a part of since joining the Packers in 2020.
If you think that the defense is more of a priority than the wide receiver in the 1st-Round, okay, you could make a case for it, sure. To think for even a second, that Aaron Rodgers was the thing that was holding you back from going the distance against the best team in the league at the time, the 49ers, is so ridiculous you should be put on trial.
At the end of the day Gutekunst, you’re going to look like a fool for drafting Jordan Love no matter what. The least you could do is save face and earn some redemption by openly admitting that it was the wrong thing to do and to make it up, you give him a much-needed change of scenery and sever the dead weight. You’ll be criticized regardless, but at least you’ll be doing the right thing.