I'm excited to see what this team can accomplish.
GO PACK GO

MLF will have a more flexible & unpredictable offense this year. First, he'll know what play is being called & run. Two healthy, talented backs eager. Receivers, perhaps the youngest & fastest in the league hungry and ready to go. Tight ends the envy of the league, equally fast and both with great hands & willingness to hit people. Play distribution will be fun to watch. Looking for a better than expected year. GPP!!!!!

IMO- Rodger’s quit throwing over the middle;
Because of the TEs. He Lost Finley.
And the constant changes with the WRs.
If Love throws more INTs.
He didn’t learn a thing from Rodgers.
Rodgers trusted certain WRs," just for their hands.”
If Love doesn’t show some ground ability.
That will put more pressure on this OL.
Expect that to be a problem!!! Per sacks, etc.
Motion- The shot gun was created for that reason.
Better reads, Faster release!
Good backs that can catch, are always an advantage.
But we don’t need a prominent run game with the
New weapons. If they just catch the ball.
The run game will be abandon.

Love should be more mobile, but Rodgers mobility was effective primarily because he read the rush and field extraordinarily well, at least after a little time as a starter. Love will be more interception prone—Rodgers is an extreme outlier and even he wasn’t that in his first year, especially when the game was close.

The biggest difference, if we are to succeed this year, has to be the offense with which Love is surrounded. That had to be set up to allow for his inexperience, to challenge teams wishing to rush. If it’s the same offense as last year, then this won’t go well—just as it did not with Rodgers.

That’s going to require more consistency from catchers, but it also requires more diversity of threat, less predictability and better usage of tempo changes and formations in both pass and run games. If those things are there, then Love and others have a chance to unlock their positives even as they work through inexperience. Without it, this could get ugly for LaFleur even more than Love.

It’s make it break time for LaFleur. Can he unlock talent and give Love a plausible shot to succeed? Then it becomes a question of how well Love can exploit that. Don’t expect any first year starter to be able to overcome its absence.

Right now, we fans have seen a very limited number of snaps from Love, so all of this is our projected conjectures on how Love MAY play. I'm hoping he does have more Favre "gunslinger" than Rodgers "protect the ball without giving the receivers more chances to make contested catches "mentality. I'm just excited to see ANYTHING other than the same old, same old, plays we were seeing the last several seasons with AR. GPG!

I'm excited to see a fresh aspect to the QB position that is based on what is best for the team and the coaches instructions. Arod's "Hero-ball" wore thin, especially after it wasn't heroic anymore.
I had these same feelings when Arod took over for Favre... When Farve threw a perfect spiral to a wide open Giant in the NFC Championship game, I was done and glad to move on.
Maybe 3rd time will be a charm.

Love has the potential to be an above average player. That’s all the team needs if they surround him with good to great players. He may never be an MVP but it’s a team sport and Rodgers trade will free up cap in the future. He is good and affordable.

There's a lot of pressure on LaFleur to implement his offense to the fullest and show what it can do, but that would also seem to go with a lot of excitement for him as far as creativity in outsmarting foes and allowing our young guys to run fast and free.
The paradox is that if the offense executes the intricacies of the running game and the short passing game with excellence, it's more likely for the occasional big plays to open up.
With just a few of these big plays, as the fruit of ball control and moving the sticks, the offense of the Packers will be high flying and fun and most of all, truly effective.

I am a very, very long time Packers fan dating back to start of Bart Starr's career and I will admit there is not a quarterback in the NFL during that time that had fewer turnovers than Rodgers and I do admire that.

However, that era is done and what I am looking forward to this year is plenty of quarterback snaps from under center with motion to confuse linebackers and AJ Dillon starting about 7 yards behind center hitting that crease in the line at full speed. Fans in the front row of Lambeau may be using ear plugs when he collides with linebackers and those smaller defensive backs. I can hardly wait for the season to start.

I'm looking forward to the mobility, as long as Love knows when to go down to not take the big hit. It should come in handy deep in the red zone and third down conversions of a reasonable distance.

Using the middle of the field more often is fine, and our new tight ends should help him do that. But there's no problem with taking quick outs either if that's what the defense gives you early in the down sequence--we'll take an easy five or six yards on first down.

Interceptions are going to happen, but I hope it's not going to be exacerbated by any gunslinger approaches, something best left in the annals of Packers history.

Funny thing about the middle of the field: our offense has been hesitant to attack it, and our defense has made it look difficult to defend! Like to see both of those things change this year!

Regarding the running game: gotta be prepared for GB to run on both 1st and second down, even if it’s 2nd and long, and even if the Packers are trailing in the second half!
If not, better be prepared for another MLF presser in which he says “we gotta get Jones and Dillon more involved”

I think I speak for many of us that we WELCOME a greater commitment to the running game, but also gotta guard against saying “MLF is too conservative”. Know what I mean?

Well, I know there is really little sample of Jordan Love at helm of the offense. For me, that KC games told me that Love is fast learner. Yea, he was pressured whole game, but he adapted step by step in the FPQB scheme prepared for KC game. Do not forget that news Jordan will start that game came at Friday evening and Packers were already prepared to travel to KC.

So, in game that MLF did nothing to help Jordan Love, and with that OL (Henson & Newman on the right side) it was not only blitzing what disturbs normal flow of the game. When KC DC find out that he do not need to blitz, just to let his DL to go through Packers OL, KC changed approach in the second half. Also, do not forget that game finished with just one TD from both side, and 2 FG from KC, one from 55 yards. Also, placed in that position, Jordan Love achieved more passing yards (190) in less attemptes (34, 19 completed) than Mahoms (20-37, 166 yards).

Yes, Jordan Love had one interception, Mohomes not, but Mahomes had much better OL and much more experience. So, Love were learning fast in that game and Packers won second half 7 to 0. All points for KC were scored in the 1st half.

That was ugly game, but I believe helped Love to saw his mistakes and to correct them through 2nd half.

Lesson learned, what is proved by that part of 4th Q vs Phily. Jordan Love made only one mistake - throwing ball to Watson instead to Lazard...

After Philly game at the presser MLF looked surprised how Jordan Love played well, very well. To me that is the proof we can expect above average play from Jordan Love this season.

I'm going to disagree with the assertion that Love will throw more interceptions than Rodgers. Last season, Rodgers threw 12, which was pretty bad for him. In fact, it was pretty bad by NFL standards....nobody threw more than 15. If you assume Love will be an average QB, the likelihood is that he'll throw fewer than 12 picks this year.

The second thing is about throwing down the middle. Do you suppose there is a reason that older, more experienced QBs try to avoid it? We will throw down the middle more, but I don't know if that's necessarily a good thing. We'll see.

And on the more prominent run game? Our RBs already end up with the ball on half the plays. You can hand it off, pitch it, toss a short shovel pass, etc., but it's the same deal. Last year Jones/Dillon accounted for 2500 yards....I would actually be surprised if we saw much of an increase there.

You forgot more snaps under center.

What Jordon Love will be is unknown for now. One thing we for sure will get is a complete look at Matt LaFleur’s offensive scheme and his ability as a play caller. Love will certainly not have the same freedom that Rodgers was given to alter plays and the game plan. We will see how close MLF really is to Kyle Shanahan when it comes to offensive creativity and game management.

Rodgers ran a 4.71 forty at the combine and a 7.12 three-cone. Love ran a 4.74 forty and a 7.32 three-cone, but his vertical and broad jump numbers were better than AR's. AR had multiple seasons rushing for 350 yards or so, including 369 in 2016, his last sizable rushing year. I don't see any reason why Love couldn't rush for 300 to 400 yards if needed. He is as at least as mobile as a young AR.

Love probably will throw over the middle more, assuming he doesn't toss a few too many INTs while doing so, particularly early.

Love can indeed sling it.

Rodgers (2005-07) Love (2020-22)

Games (Starts) 7 (0) 10 (1)
Comp. Pct. 59.3 60.2
Pass Yds/Att 5.6 7.3
Pass TD-INT 1-1 3-3
Passer rating 73.3 79.7

This is a quick cut and paste that compares how prepared Love is in comparison to Rodgers first season.

I'm kind of laughing about 79.7 passer rating, when you consider that Favre's CAREER passer rating was 86.5.

You could see the mobility difference in the Eagles game alone last year. Then the other way it will change is more turnovers. Love is going to through more INTs and have worse a TD-INT ratio. Just like every other QB in the HOF. Those are pretty much facts.

Other things are guesses. Like there's a pretty good chance that the office will run more with a younger a QB, and a QB that will probably not call his own number as much. More motion we will have to see. Have the past few years with AR changed MLF's motion offense? I don't know.