Jordan Love should be Packers' starting QB for rest of the season

When Green Bay drafted Jorden Love in 2020, he was seen as their quarterback of the future but with Aaron Rodgers looking closer to retirement than on-field success, it might be time for the Packers to bench their aging star and see what his replacement can do over an extended stretch of games.

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So let's talk about some of the things that's been going on with the Green Bay Packers and their quarterback situation, and some of the things that make it interesting slash weird, right? So this whole Jordan Love thing-- he's technically supposed to be quarterback of the future, or at least, we look at him-- now we do-- we look at him with the eyes of, all right, Jordan Love is quarterback of the future. But that wasn't always the case.

At some point, he was quarterback of the future. Then he went into, I'm backup guy. And now, he's back to being quarterback of the future. Let's talk about it.

So the only reason I would say that he is in consideration for quarterback of the future is because, well, you spent this first round pick on him, right? But the only reason that they spent this first round pick on him-- because Aaron Rodgers was giving the Green Bay Packers problems. He was beefing with the front office.

He was-- there was this locker room thing that was going on. He didn't have a great relationship with the coaches. So in this move of pettiness-- and I love me some good pettiness-- the front office said, all right, cool, instead of getting Aaron Rodgers some help around him, drafting wide receivers, tight ends, offensive linemen, dudes that can help him, they're just going to draft the quarterback of the future, which is Jordan Love.

Now, typically, quarterback of the future is a dude that just kind of sits around maybe a year, two years. And then whenever dude that's in the driver's seat goes away, then you step into the spotlight. Jordan Love hasn't had an opportunity to step into the spotlight simply because Hall of Fame Aaron Rodgers is playing in front of you. And not only is Hall of Fame Aaron Rodgers playing in front of you, but he's playing at an MVP level, by the way.

So if Aaron Rodgers is playing at an MVP level, and he's-- and he's a Hall of Famer, and he's just signed this three-year contract for all the big monies in the world, then you're no longer quarterback of the future. Aaron Rodgers is the damn quarterback of the future. You are simply the backup quarterback now. You wasn't always backup quarterback, but just the circumstances that were placed around you created this situation to where now, you're the backup quarterback.

Let's talk about something fun. Let's talk about how much change has happened between last year and this year, right? Aaron Rodgers is playing terrible now-- some of the worst football that we've seen of Aaron Rodgers.

And some people say it's because his thumb hurts. But yeah, we've seen Aaron Rodgers with various injuries and his thumb hurting. But he still goes out, and he plays football like top 10 Aaron Rodgers. We're not going to pretend like he still can't make those throws because we'll still see those throws in spurts.

But ever since he came out with the whole ayahuasca thing, Aaron Rodgers just seems to have this "I don't care" energy about him, right? So you can be MVP Aaron Rodgers, and you can go on and say, oh, well, we're Green Bay Packers fans. We love Aaron Rodgers.

And I said this on a previous episode-- Tom Brady has made it to where we think 37, 36, 38, 39-year-old quarterbacks ain't that old. Late 30s is old for quarterbacks. Tom Brady's just pushing that limit to make us feel like, you know, Aaron Rodgers got plenty of time.

But Aaron Rodgers could possibly be at the end of his career now, right? And then you just top that off with he's not playing great football. Then all of a sudden, Aaron Rodgers gets hurt. And then Jordan Love comes in the game.

And that's where it gets weird one more time. Because if Jordan Love comes in the game, and he simply looks like a typical backup quarterback, then he just gets to live this life with his role as backup quarterback. But Jordan Love got in the game, he started making some throws that were pretty impressive.

I don't want to call them big boy throws. Some of them were pretty open or whatever. But he just wasn't making these bus driver throws. Like, you saw a little bit of potential in Jordan Love.

Let me give you another angle on why this gets weird. The Green Bay Packers have a horrific record. So if you're looking at Jordan Love as once quarterback of the future, backup, now he's quarterback of the future again, if you got this good draft pick because your record is bad, now you're in this situation where, oh, I'm sitting at the top of the draft in this draft, where there are quarterbacks I may feel great about.

So if you're the Green Bay Packers, you've got to ask-- you have to answer yourself this question, right, and ask yourself this question-- do I love Jordan Love enough-- say that five times fast-- do I love Jordan Love enough to where I'm not looking for quarterbacks when it comes to the offseason? So now, what you've got to ask yourself is for the remainder of this season, for the rest of the season, do I insert Jordan Love into the lineup for the rest of the way? Why? Because I need to know what I got in Jordan Love.

There's no need to put Aaron Rodgers back into this. We're not making the playoffs. We haven't been hit with the mathematically eliminated yet, but you're not a playoff team anymore. Go ahead and move on. Aaron Rodgers kind of got this three-year contract sitting over you, but whatever, we'll see.

Jordan Love is quarterback one now. You need to see what you have in that dude. Because if he impresses you for a full game, 3, 4, 5 full games, then maybe that lets you know what you need to do about your future.

But I'll tell you this-- if Jordan Love gets back in these games-- let's just say Jordan Love puts up five top tier games. Now you have to ask yourself, can you bench that dude again, who-- he's back to being quarterback of the future, right? Do you bench that dude just to put Aaron Rodgers back in there to appease him?

Or do you follow the money with Aaron Rodgers? Or do you just take that high draft pick, draft a dude like CJ Stroud, and just move on with your life? It will be fun to see how all this plays out.