Back in May of this year, Green Bay Packers quarterbacks coach Tom Clements related the team’s transition to Jordan Love to the transition from Brett Favre to Aaron Rodgers, insisting the team knew — like the Packers thought they knew with Rodgers in 2008 — that Love would be a good quarterback. How good? No one knew or can know for sure, especially after only four starts in 2023, but Clements and the Packers think they’ve gotten confirmation on their initial belief of Love.
“You always anticipate based on how he’s practiced and done in the preseason and years past, you have an idea of how he might do when he becomes the full-time starter, and he’s confirmed our thoughts.