From Matt Ramas (@matt_ramas):
From Andy Marcell (@1544Amar):
Matt and Andy, gotta be encouraged with what you’ve seen in spurts from Jordan Love—in particular, the cameo against the Eagles—and that’s not irrelevant. I was a Cowboys beat writer at the when Brett Favre got hurt in a Thursday-night game at Texas Stadium and a young quarterback no one was sure of came on to light up Wade Phillips’s defense. That quarterback was Aaron Rodgers, and, in retrospect, there was plenty to see that night.
That’s good, too, because the question of how sure the Packers are on Jordan Love will be front and center this offseason more so than it has been before. A decision on his fifth-year option will be due just after the draft, and exercising it will mean locking in a $20 million guarantee on the 2020 first-round pick for ’24. Meanwhile, Rodgers will have a decision to make after the season on his own future. If he sticks around, things get exponentially more complicated with Love, because it could set the team up for a traffic jam of QB contracts in ’24.
And, again, that brings you back to the importance of gathering as much information as possible on Love between now and May. Which is why, if the Packers wind up suffering a ninth loss, it makes sense to at least start thinking about giving Love a few starts.
