Jordan Love's Breakout Impact on Green Bay Packers

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00:00Apparently there is life after Aaron Rodgers in Green Bay because Jordan Love took the

00:06pack all the way to the playoffs, a stunning, absolutely stunning second half of the season

00:12for Jordan Love last year.

00:14It was great to watch in fantasy, a guy that finished in a terrific way last year, QB5

00:22if you can imagine, through for 4,100 yards, 32 touchdowns, and now the Packers have expectations

00:27again, especially with the Bears having a rookie quarterback and, well, frankly, being

00:32the Bears, and a retooling Minnesota Vikings team.

00:36We'll get to those teams in just a moment, but we're going to start with the Green Bay

00:39Packers here in Jordan Love.

00:41Just to kind of run through some things for you, George, over the last eight starts of

00:45last season, Jordan Love averaged 268.8 passing yards, 18 touchdowns, just one interception

00:52for Jordan Love, and he had a completion percentage above 70%.

00:57It was fantastic, and he was kind of doing it with a bunch of, let's be honest, no name

01:01wide receiver.

01:02Jaden Reed's a nice player.

01:04He got the most out of Jaden Reed, Romeo Dobbs, all these pieces.

01:07He rarely had Aaron Jones on the field.

01:10So this was Jordan Love at his best without a lot to work with.

01:13This is also the youngest team in the NFL last year, looking to mature a little bit

01:17in 2024.

01:19Jordan Love is one of my favorite late-round QBs.

01:21I keep looking at this and saying, well, if he struggled so much in the first six weeks

01:25of the season and was so good in the last eight weeks, I'm not trying to extrapolate

01:29numbers.

01:30I'm just saying what we saw last week, last year, I should say, is probably the floor

01:33of Jordan Love, and that is something that I want to invest in.

01:37So if you're going to let the top-tier quarterbacks go or you're going to not like the ADP of

01:42the Richardsons or Lamars or even Joe Burrows, Jordan Love, to me, in that single quarterback

01:46league, George, is the pivot that I keep looking for time and time again.

01:50Him and Dak Prescott, both guys finished in the top five last year.

01:53Both guys are being drafted closer to QB 10 right now or 11 or 12.

01:58So are you as, I should say, excited about Jordan Love in 2024 as I am?

02:03Excited?

02:04I don't know if I would use the word excited.

02:07That being said, I don't have an issue with him as my fantasy quarterback.

02:11If I had to choose between Love and Dak, I'm probably going Dak only because, hmm, do the

02:17Cowboys have a running back?

02:19You know, I don't think they do.

02:21You know, sorry, Zeke.

02:22So I think I would throw the ball a lot is what I'm trying to go with that.

02:26Where Green Bay, I think I'll have more of a balanced offense here.

02:29So I think that might be why I would think Dak over Jordan Love.

02:32But once again, it's a small thing.

02:34It's the belief that I have.

02:35And anybody who knows me knows I am not a Dak guy.

02:37Just once again, fantasy from reality, I want to throw the football.

02:41But Love's Green Bay, it's just not fair.

02:44I mean, Favre to Rodgers to Love.

02:47You're going to go through 30, 40 years of quarterbacks.

02:49It's just not fair.

02:50It's just not.

02:51I mean, Love will be a Jet.

02:52I don't know what, 10, 15 years from now.

02:53That's an easy joke.

02:54Everybody's been saying that.

02:55It's still a good one, though.

02:56It's still a good one.

02:57It will be 38 years old.

02:58The time will be ticking and the Jets will go in there.

03:05The running back situation, we kind of touched on Josh Jacobs when we were doing the breakdowns

03:09of the running backs.

03:10I'm not sold on Josh Jacobs, especially the ADP.

03:13I don't like it at all.

03:14The overall ADP, more than even where he's going as a running back, because to me, I'd

03:19much rather be taking the Dwaddles and Nico Collins of the world and DJ Moors of the world

03:23and Michael Pittmans.

03:25But when you go past him, there are some interesting other guys in this backfield, not so much

03:28AJ Dillon, but Marshawn Lloyd, a guy that's got a lot of buzz out of camp, a lot of buzz

03:34from the head coach, too.

03:35What do you think about taking some late shares of Marshawn Lloyd as a sleeper who might,

03:39as the season goes on, possibly carve himself a bigger role?

03:42Absolutely.

03:43Once again, most teams use two running backs, and Josh Jacobs, by the way, he gets hurt,

03:48too.

03:49So you've got to take some dartboard throws, throw some mud against the wall, see if it

03:52sticks.

03:53Once again, you take Marshawn Lloyd late.

03:54Is he going to be on your roster the whole season?

03:56No.

03:57During bye weeks, you're going to want to replace him because you need to win that week,

03:59right?

04:00Or you're going to have injuries.

04:01Or the hot guy in the way of the wire, and he's the low guy with the totem pole.

04:04But why not a draft, take him around, whatever it is, 16, 14.

04:07You have nothing to lose here.

04:08Like I said, you can move on from him right away.

04:10But you might hit.

04:11Maybe Jacobs does get hurt early.

04:13Maybe Jacobs is not playing well, and Lloyd also looks like the next big thing here.

04:17He's taking more and more playing time away.

04:19So absolutely, top backup, running back, I have no problem.

04:22I wouldn't call him a handcuff.

04:24I would call him a guy who could eventually steal more of the starting role for us.

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