The Green Bay Packers are suddenly finding themselves at the center of attention early on in training camp. Their off-season was relatively quiet compared to recent years. Trading away Davante Adams and Aaron Rodgers in back-to-back off-seasons had Green Bay the talk of the league.
This off-season releasing David Bakhtiari and Aaron Jones in favor of Josh Jacobs and Xavier McKinney still didn’t break headlines like the last two off-seasons.
However, the Packers’ situation with Jordan Love has now starting picking up attention.
Green Bay Packers GM Makes Brutal Declaration Regarding Jordan Love
According to Jori Epstein of Yahoo Sports:
Teammates say he’s engaged in each meeting, challenging them in film study and coaching their techniques.
Love helped one offensive lineman stretch his hip flexors during Tuesday’s practice, recommending fundamental tweaks to rookie quarterback Michael Pratt’s individual work on Wednesday.
But he’s not taking snaps or competing against the defense.
“I know he doesn’t want to be sitting out,” Myers said. “Like he does not want that.
“He’s just out there being positive.”
Leadership and vibe-boosting is great. But front-office members believe practice is key to their comfortably stated Super Bowl goal.
Padded practice work is next in training camp, and subject to time limitations by collectively bargained rules. That’s the next benchmark Love is set to miss if negotiations don’t wrap soon.
“Every day he misses is not great for our football team,” Gutekunst told Yahoo Sports. “We certainly understand the decisions he’s making. But yeah, this time is really, really important for our entire team. Certainly for him as well and we want him out there. We’d like him out there. We expect him out there.”
It is no secret that having Jordan Love out there for the offense is huge. There have been multiple reports that neither Michael Pratt nor Sean Clifford has established themselves as the QB2.
The pressure feels like it is mounting to get Jordan Love signed sooner rather than later.
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