Author: Paul Magno

How about this for pressure on Jordan Love, a young quarterback already under immense pressure? One little slip up, one injury, one stretch of down time and your team is sunk because nobody’s backing you up. Well, “nobody” is a bit harsh, but, as the roster stands now, the 24-year-old Love, with his one career start and 83 career passes, is, by far, the most field-experienced quarterback on the Green Bay Packers. Backing Love up will be 2018 seventh round draft pick Danny Etling, who, at 29 years of age, has yet to play a single down in an NFL…

Nobody needs to say it out loud anymore, but 24-year-old Jordan Love (who will turn 25 early in the season) will be slow roasted in pressure throughout this upcoming campaign. Love, who was the Green Bay Packers’ first round pick in the 2020 NFL Draft, has only started one game as a pro and has only thrown 83 passes in his time with the team (with 3 touchdowns and 3 interceptions). This season, he’ll be replacing future Hall of Famer Aaron Rodgers and he’ll be asked to succeed with a supporting cast of pass catchers who, for the most part,…

Last season, the Green Bay Packers ranked seventeenth in both total defense and scoring defense. It was a mediocre showing from a defense that is deep in both raw ability and talent. The inconsistencies on defense helped lead to a subpar 8-9 record and failure to make the postseason. Part of the defensive inconsistency could be found at linebacker in the form of rookie first round draft pick Quay Walker. If the Georgia standout were judged on just paper stats, you’d be tempted to call this past season a total success for a rookie. He registered a team-leading 121 tackles,…

If you believe what the Green Bay Packers fans believe, new starting quarterback Jordan Love will be just fine, at least fine enough to earn back his starting gig for the 2024 season. According to a fan poll conducted by SB Nation’s Acme Packing Co., 92% of Packers fans believe Love will be able to keep the role of starting quarterback for the 2024 season. That means, at least indirectly, that the young player going into his third year in the NFL will do a good enough job leading the offense to retain his top dog quarterback status. This is…

It’s been talked about ad nauseam this offseason, but the trade of four-time MVP quarterback Aaron Rodgers makes the Green Bay Packers offense Jordan Love’s offense. The 24-year-old with the limited field time will have his challenges this coming season. Notably, he’ll be going into battle with a crew of very young and relatively inexperienced pass catchers. This will make for some rough times, especially early on, as Love and his players learn to work with one another and develop the kind of rhythm that makes for NFL success. To do all of that, though, Love is going to need…

The San Diego Chargers have become the undisputed kings of the coming season hype video. Every team puts together a promo video to coincide with the NFL’s schedule release, but none do it quite as well as The Chargers. For the second straight year, the team released an anime-style video that was high on creativity and brimming with subtle (and not so subtle) shots at upcoming opponents. This time around, while previewing their Week 11 matchup with the Green Bay Packers, they took some sideways shots at the recently departed Aaron Rodgers. In a very brief flash of a moment…

There’s an old saying in boxing that “pressure bursts pipes.” The idea is that the application of steady, constant pressure will eventually wear a fighter down and cause his mental and physical collapse. History has proven this to be, very much, a truism. Well, Green Bay Packers fans will get a chance to see if this axiom is true when it comes to new starting quarterback, 24-year-old Jordan Love as he replaces four-time MVP Aaron Rodgers. Love will be leading his team into a season where he’ll see five prime time TV dates and a Thanksgiving game with the Detroit…

The Green Bay Packers picked 13 players in this past NFL Draft and, like in no other recent campaign, those rookies, out of necessity, will be asked to take a greater role on the team from day one. But who will rise to the occasion and become impact players from opening day onward? Here’s a look at three rookies who could have the biggest immediate impact on the team. Luke Musgrave, TE Before the draft, the roster was sorely lacking in pass catchers. The team had either lost or not re-signed Robert Tonyan, Allen Lazard, Randall Cobb and Marcedes Lewis…

There isn’t much of a case for a Green Bay Packers Super Bowl run this season. Last season, WITH Hall of Famer quarterback Aaron Rodgers, the team finished 8-9 and failed to make the post-season. This season, 24-year-old Jordan Love takes over for Rodgers and he’ll be surrounded by a cast of young, relatively inexperienced pass catchers at wide receiver and tight end. The team will also be missing some key veterans who opted to leave Green Bay via free agency. So, with youth filtering through the system and older established players leaving (or being allowed to leave), are the…

Wide receiver Grant DuBose was the Green Bay Packers’ last pick in this year’s NFL Draft– and a compensatory pick at that. The seventh round selection (256th overall) from Charlotte, though, is used to being underestimated. A zero-star recruit out of Park Crossing High School in Montgomery, Alabama, Dubose would end up playing for the only college offering him a scholarship– the small, liberal arts-minded Miles College. However, when the Covid-19 pandemic wiped out his sophomore football season, it certainly looked like the end of the line for his football aspirations. But after taking “real world” jobs to make ends…