I've never paid much heed to the national sports media dopes and their 'knowledge'. It's all about ratings. Most of them don't care about fairness or truth. Opinion first, baseless or not.

Love's development hasn't been linear. He's had his up moments and down moments. But what is without challenge to a thinking fan is he's matured to be among the top tier quarterbacks. I was among the doubters but I've changed my thinking. He is now the heir to Favre and Rodgers. We all tend to forget both Favre and Rodgers didn't look so good during points in their careers. We tend to remember the good stuff and forget the bad. Favre was an interception machine along with a touchdown tosser. Rodgers was accurate but his ego was constantly a problem.

Love's reads have matured. He plays hurt. Never a complaint. He's also young and could have many more successful seasons in Green Bay.

The NFL is a tough place to work, especially for a quarterback. Love has grown to be a leader among his teammates and now is the guy. If you think the next great QB is waiting in the parking lot, just look at Indianapolis, Tennessee, etc. The Packers are winning and won't be able to get into the quarterback sweepstakes the losers get to play in so "the guy' won't be available to them. For every Drake May there's a bust or two and you're more likely to get one of those than the winner.

I now support Love and think the Packers will always have a chance if he's there.

Truthfully, there isn’t resentment toward Love.
The resentment is aimed at Gute!
You're trying to kill two birds with one stone here.

The problem was the OL.
So as much as they thought Love was the problem.
Keeping the fan bass divided was the goal.
Regardless- the wait is the debate now.

And whatever short comings Love has.
MLF will get the blame.
Because everyone knows shit flows downhill.

Once I read the article and realized you were talking about the “National media” talking heads I thought well that explains it. They blow like a battered wind sock at one of those Automobile sales lots. No one going to remember Adam Schein of CBS sports proclaiming and I quote “ Jordan Love can’t play football it’s as simple as that”.

Receipts:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/robreischel/2023/08/05/nfl-host-rips-packer...

Then the guy backed off his “hot take” and tried to act like he never said such dumbassery.

Jordan has been nothing but PROFESSIONAL and handled all slings and arrows and doing his job becoming one of the better QBs in the NFL. Is he Brett Favre, Aaron Rodgers or Bart Starr? NO he’s Jordan Love and that’s OK with me.

What resentment...all he has to do is go out and play like he's paid and where he was drafted...consistently.....I don't feel he has resentment, he's a young man who's got it made...dont feel sorry for him one bit..

I thought he demonstrated his potential right off the bat, when Rodgers got knocked out of that game in Philadelphia and Love played lights out. It was similar to Rodgers' game in Dallas during his third year, when he had to come in for Favre. We are lucky to be fans of a team that knows how to find great QBs and coach them up.

The big step for Love this year is how he's played in clutch situations. That's been much more solid.

I think part of the reason people have been critical of him is that they mistake his calm demeanor for a lack of intensity, or even a lack of intelligence. But he's actually very intense and very smart. Still waters run deep.

You’ll never stop these sports talk blowhards from spouting hot takes and creating fake controversy. It’s all about clicks and ratings.

This article is just ann example of this. “Damn, everybody says Jordan Love sucks! Let’s all get pissed off and post angry comments! We have to storm the ramparts!”

Clickbait.

They said the same thing about Rodgers too. Tedford QBs aren’t real QBs, made of glass, not good enough to leave Favre on his tractor. Until, that is, he piloted a written off and beaten up team into and then through the playoffs.

I remember feeling hopeful that Brett Hundley would be able to surprise everyone when Rodgers broke his collarbone in 2017, but he wasn’t “that” guy despite the Packers saying they had trust in him (and obviously they’re going to back him, but it was soon apparent that he would never grow into the role of a suitable NFL QB). I know he was drafted in the 5th round, but still, he set all sorts of records at UCLA and seemed to have so much talent, but that didn’t translate to the NFL level. Maybe a lot of Packer fans have (had) that muscle memory when Love has his down games. He is an outwardly stoic player and doesn’t let his emotions or words come across too emotionally high or low, he lets his game do the talking for him. And when he isn’t playing well, he becomes a bit of a punching bag for the national media because he doesn’t react to their bait. Now he is playing well again and the negative chatter has subsided. That’s how it will be moving forward, walking in the footsteps of two NFL Hall of Fame quarterbacks.

I have a question for fans who understand how trades work better than I do. Would it make sense to offer to trade Malik Willis to the Colts at this point? As much as I love having him as a backup, couldn’t we command a great price since the Colts are so desperate? He would have an opportunity to make a name for himself and help out a great team that really needs a QB for a playoff push. From what I understand, we won’t be able to hold on to him next season anyway. Wouldn’t it make sense to get some draft picks for him? I don’t even know if that’s a possibility, but I wanted to present that scenario to see how other fans would respond.

You draft a QB in Round 1, the expectation is that he's eventually going to be your starter and a guy who can win playoff games for you. Mostly, it doesn't work that way, but that's still the expectation.

Love's got this year and next.

I've always believed in Love (check the comments from several years back) and I have trusted the process. One comment from a nay sayer has always stuck with me, something along the lines of "just you wait until Rodgers goes on to win a SB with another team, you'll be sorry"

Well guess who's sorry now?

National so called pundits I ignore. Truthfully I feel there is more knowledge and accurate analysis among some of the posters here.

Well, personally I was one of the skeptics. But never because we drafted him. I suggested we could have gotten him later in the draft.
But this stupid narrative that some packer fans want him to fail is—well, stupid. I him to be the MVP.
Some of his platform throws make me nervous, but he manages it well.
Beat the dispicable Donkeys—I hate the team!!
Go Packers—and Go Love!!!

Love is just low and level keeled. He shows his emotion in his plays, not much of anything outwardly in feelings. I really like the guy and his play but sometimes those off back heel throws are scary while in the air!

I think there's some revisionist history going on here in the comments, trying to make it out like it's only the "National media" and not home-town fans who have thrown eggs at Jordan Love over his career.

Are you kidding me? There's ALWAYS Packers fans, right here even, who can't wait for Love to have a poor showing to start throwing stones again.

Hell, just last weekend we had some bozo posting full page posts about how bad Love is.

Rodgers also had a very difficult time after the departure of Favre. But, like Love, he never complained, never spoke against a fan base that made his life difficult, and became the face of the franchise. Then again, Favre made the transition as difficult as possible. The dramatic return to Green Bay, demanding he be given the chance to compete with Rodgers for the starting job, and then forcing his way to Minnesota so he could play the Packers twice a year.
In the end, though, Packers fans showed their appreciation and forgave him on his triumphant return to Lambeau to a roaring, raucous, joyful welcome home. Class act by a classy fan base.

No worries #10. I got your hairy back.

The higher up the mountain you climb, the windier it getz.

Love and Stuff,

PB

*and here is a quote that helped me get out of the modeling men's underwear industry:

I am not so much afraid of failing as I am being a success at something that really doesn't matter to me.

Yada...

We all know perfectly well that sports media "talk shows" are based on the model that stupid people should shout at each other about intentionally moronic hot takes and clickbait. That's by design. Why people even watch this crap is beyond me.

Besides, hatred in sports is the sincerest form of flattery.

“Maybe it was loyalty to the beloved Rodgers, who “deserved better” or maybe it was a desire to see themselves proven right for all their criticism of the Love pick, but whatever it was – many people were (and still are) rooting for Love to fail.”

This is the important quote. People don’t like to admit they are wrong. They are interested in confirming their priors. You can call it the Sunk Cost Fallacy, the Dunning-Kreuger Effect, or just plain old inexperience (Millennial Packer fans who never knew another Packer QB, for example). And then add in Chicago, Detroit and Minnesota fans who have a vested interest in Love being “mid” and you’ve got the toxic stew you need for endless internet fodder.

The important point: Love is absolutely a top 10 QB and trending top 5. We are lucky to have him, and lucky to have the brain trust at 1265 that had the balls to make that move. The people who cannot admit they were wrong are safe to completely ignore. You’ll never learn anything from them. You’ll never grow as a fan or person listening to someone who doesn’t have the integrity or courage to look their own mistakes in the face and admit they aren’t perfect.

As a Green Bay Packer fan I never experienced anything I would consider "resentment" at the selection of Jordan Love.

The year he was selected I was mocking the idea that Michael Pittman Jr would have been a good pick as a #2 to Davante Adams in the WR room. That assumption was based on GB sticking with Rodgers at the time. The move up to get Love was a bit of a surprise but it was certainly a move for the future.

As much as we might like a certain player, every player at some point becomes surplus to the team needs. Be it age, declining skill sets, better players drafted or acquired in the system, or the cost of keeping them on the team it is going to happen at some point in time. We knew that time was going to be approaching for Rodgers sooner rather than later when Love was selected.

Jordan Love didn't ask to get drafted where he did, or into the situation he was drafted into. But Jordan Love has always impressed me as a model employee of the Green Bay Packers. He worked, practiced and prepared and you never heard any bad noise surrounding that during the time he was the apprentice. On many other teams you get the players who just can't be patient, can't keep their thoughts out of social media or just can't understand they belong to a team. Not Jordan Love. He handled himself in the best way possible during the transition.

Are there times we've watched his development and maybe desired some better accuracy, better decision making, better footwork and mechanics? Yup. But it all seems to be working out and getting better in most respects. The results are starting to speak for themselves. He is winning and doing a pretty good job of protecting the ball.

So yeah, I'd say he's put himself solidly into the conversation of ranking in the 5-10 range right now.

Certainly never any resentment over that.