Health first and foremost. A healthy Love has the ability to get into better positions and buy time to make decisions. Love needs more help in terms of a game plan that gets him into rhythm early on and we need to give more snaps to WRs that are reliable catching the ball.

Love’s worst mental breaks come when we’ve dug ourselves into a hole. Therefore the best curative is to minimize the occurrence of that circumstance. The biggest help would be an O that starts better. Help Love to help himself while emphasizing that’s it’s ok to throw it away or even go to ground.

For us, avoiding deficits based upon play so far (outside of the Vikings game) means converting more than anything. That means a better, perhaps more diverse approach in the red zone. A huge help would be better goal line run blocking, but also we seem to become largely unimaginative and predictable with both personnel and calls close to the opponent’s goal line.

We congratulate ourselves for being a good pass blocking team. In many ways we are, but yet Love is one of the QBs with the least time in a stable box. In other words, we don’t let him get hit, but we don’t give him the ability to set for long or at all either. Part of the problem, I believe is that our IOL often holds by retreating into the pocket. Love has been less good moving about within the pocket than when he is stable. It’s obviously much worse when he’s immobile.

Another big help would be an adequate catch rate. At this point that means no Wicks on third and key downs. In the Lions game, Reed was virtually invisible until late in the second quarter. Why? A tactical error? Slot play is a classic tool to open relatively easy, faster completions and our slot is our best performing WR. We don’t use TEs enough over the middle either in my view. I’d love to see more crossers from Watson too. I keep hoping for them with Reed or Melton running a go route and let the secondary pick its poison. If he’s healthy, more use of play action should help too. We have a run game, but we’ve not had the healthy QB to consistently exploit it that way.

LaFleur had great game plans for Willis. On the whole though, I’m not all that impressed with those for Love this year. We seem to be locked into the near lateral or long perimeter ball far too much. We don’t seem to play call him into rhythm. Love needs to learn there is a line not to cross with heroics, but we could do much more to help that line be challenged much less often.

Agree with all that has been stated - anyone that is struggling needs to have the game plan dumbed down slightly - common sense. Shorter, quicker, higher percentage passes where your talented athletic receivers can go to work, stay out of 3rd and longs (No Dumb Penalties), less finesse throws to the sidelines - more throws to your big bodies over the middle, no off balance throw it up Hero Balls, let your All Pro running back share the burden, figure out a way - somehow, to score TDs in the Red Zone. Figure out what of this works and keep doing it until the opposing team stops it. Great example will be execution and game plan against a flailing Bears team this weekend. Go Packers

Love is just not that good, jumped too soon, is way over paid for what he lacks in talent and decision making. Be honest about it.