The Green Bay Packers and Jordan Love are more than ready to take on the Chicago Bears in a win-and-in scenario during Week 18 NFL action. What better way to attempt to punch a ticket into the playoffs than squaring off against a bitter rival?
Along with playing a rivalry game to get into the playoffs comes a much harder path. The Packers are going to be tested this week. Justin Fields and the Bears have been wanting revenge from their Week 1 blowout loss to the Packers all season long.
All of that being said, Love is ready for the challenge and actually has quite a lot riding on the game in addition to simply making the playoffs. In fact, it has everything to do with his bank account.
Green Bay Packers’ Jordan Love Has Tons Of Money At Stake vs. Bears
Coming into this week’s game, Love has a lot of incentive money on the line. Here is a breakdown of some of the bonuses he can reach by finishing out the season strong.
Right now, it appears safe to say that Love will reach these four bonuses to earn some extra money.
- 65 percent of offensive snaps — $500,000 (clinched)
- Top 16 in passing touchdowns — $500,000 (ranks 3rd)
- Top 10 in passing touchdowns — $500,000 (ranks 3rd)
- Top 16 in passing yards — $500,000 (ranks 10th)
Now, there are quite a few bonuses that Love is still playing for this week. They will add even extra motivation for him to play well against the Bears.
- Top 16 passer rating – $500,000 (11th)
- Top 10 passing yards – $500,000 (10th)
- Top 10 passer rating – $500,000 (10th)
- Top 16 completion percentage – $500,000 (21st)
- Top 10 completion percentage – $500,000 (21st)
It will be interesting to see what kind of performance Jordan Love can put up for the Green Bay Packers this week. Should he have another big game, he should lock in quite a bit more money for his account.
Love seems more about winning than money, but every single human being is motivated by money. Hopefully, this adds even more juice to what Packers’ fans are hoping is a monstrous performance.
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This analysis is a bit flawed (and has a bullet point with no information, though that could just be a typo).
The first 5 items are basically clinched (99% certainty). There are 6 players within 4 TDs of his 30, so even if he had zero and all threw for 5 and passed him, he would only drop to 9th. It’s a lock. To drop out of the top 16 in yards, Geno Smith would have to throw for 425 and Love for zero (in addition to #s 11-15 ALL throwing for just enough to pass Love’s current total). Not happening. He’d also have to have pretty much a historic league low Passer Rating (19?), while 5 players ALL have perfect passer ratings to move the needle enough this late in the season. Statistically astronomical.
The categories that are at risk are the top 10 passing yards and passer rating. He could throw for 150 and Howell and Hurts for 300 and he drops to 12th (even Lawrence and Jackson could pass with huge games). Passer rating is just close enough that a 130 by someone just behind and a 70 from Love could swing that.
The other 2 are also locks, but in the other direction. If he went 30/33, his completion percentage would go up to a respectable 64.66% on the season, but the 8 guys ahead of him at 65% would ALL have to have 10/40 games to drop enough for him to pass and move up to 13th (so top 10 is out of the question and passing just half of those guys puts him at 17th, still unlikely).
It’s 2.5 million guaranteed with a decent chance to hang on to his other two 10th place positions for a 3.5 million total. He has no chance of reaching either completion plateau from 21st place.