Green Bay Packers Thrive Post-Rodgers Era, Jordan Love Shines

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00:00Let's preview this team and let's start at quarterback. Joe. Yeah, well, it turns out

00:07the Packers weren't a welfare case after Brett Favre left. See what I did there. And it turns

00:12out that the Aaron Rodgers departure wasn't the end of the Green Bay Packers either. In

00:17fact, it was the beginning of a new for the Green Bay Packers, Jordan Love, who many were

00:23skeptical. Why did they draft Jordan Love? Why did they spend the draft capital? Well,

00:27turns out the floor in the Packers knew exactly what they were doing because they got their

00:30next franchise quarterback because he wasn't good. He was great last year down the stretch

00:35did not turn the ball over a guy that went 20 with three interceptions to touchdowns

00:41in that span. Unbelievable span for him in the second half of the season where he really

00:45looked extremely confident. And now the hope is that you get a healthy Christian Watson

00:50in 2024. That goes a very long way for this team because Christian Watson is the most

00:56talented wide receiver. You had Jaden Reed show that he was very versatile. A guy that

01:00could show up in the red zone. Romeo Dobbs is another solid wide receiver. Also, don't

01:04forget about Dontavian Wicks. Another guy who's a splashy playmaker guy. They have four

01:09very viable wide receivers and Jordan Love looked very confident last season. Also, two

01:14very capable tight ends Luke Musgrave and Tucker Kraft. Now, Musgrave is the guy that

01:18you want for fantasy purposes. From the running back standpoint, Josh Jacobs, another one

01:23of these guys that kind of scares me. Typically, again, Derrick Henry is the outlier. Let me

01:27be very clear about that. Every situation has his outlier. Derrick Henry is the outlier

01:31to the situation I'm going to bring you today. When you have running backs getting older,

01:37moving teams, typically it doesn't always go well. We'll talk about Joe Mixon in just

01:41a second. We'll talk about Josh Jacobs here. Jacobs already dealing with some issues. They

01:45also drafted Marshawn Lloyd, who in my opinion is one of the top backs in the draft. And

01:49you've got nothing but incredible praise from La Florence coaching staff about Marshawn

01:53Lloyd. So it's not that Josh Jacobs isn't going to be the starter or the lead guy, but

01:58you can certainly write a script where at some point in the season, maybe Marshawn Lloyd

02:01starts to take over a little bit in that workload or eat into it a little bit. And that could

02:05hurt Jacobs value in the second half. Again, it's not that you can't draft Josh Jacobs,

02:10but his current ADP is a little tough for me to swallow. I'd rather be waiting on guys

02:14like Zamir White or Amandre Stevenson than going and drafting Josh Jacobs. I think that's

02:18a dangerous game to play. But to me, the guy that really stands out is Christian Watson,

02:23a guy that you can draft as wide receiver 40, that could end up as wide receiver 20,

02:27or maybe even wide receiver 15, if everything breaks right. The problem with Watson's been

02:31the hamstring issues. He has had what's called basically an unevenness in the hamstring muscles,

02:38and they continue to pull because of the unevenness, right? It's a condition that actually is-

02:43How do you make it to the NFL and have a condition of uneven hamstring muscles and oh, they keep

02:48getting pulled.

02:49You're an absurdly good talent, but medically, this is what they've diagnosed it with where

02:53it was a muscle issue. And now he is working specifically to even that out.

02:58I got a muscle issue for you too.

03:00Hey man, this is what happens when you constantly put the right foot forward. If you're Christian

03:03Watson, eventually that right foot, it just gets so much stronger than the left. I don't

03:07know. All I'm telling you is Christian Watson's a guy that's going too late in drafts. Christian

03:11Watson is a guy that can well outperform his ADP. And that's how you win leagues. Drafting

03:15guys at wide receiver four who become threes, threes who become twos, twos who become ones.

03:19That's how it rolls.

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