Yahoo Sports’ Jason Fitz and Frank Schwab discuss expectations for quarterback Jordan Love after a late turnaround last season. Listen and subscribe to the “Zero Blitz” podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or wherever you listen.
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I genuinely don’t know what we should expect from Jordan love because everybody’s telling me that the Packers have their quarterback for the next 20 years.
They have there, Aaron Rodgers, uh based on half a season, I, I just can’t do that.
So I wonder if he finds the norm if it’s just somewhere in between.
Is that enough for the Packers and will fans be happy?
Yeah, and I, I just, I’m kind of with you and it’s not like we haven’t seen a quarterback at hot for half a season and then just fall apart like this, I’ll give you one name and people are gonna throw their heads back, but go back at Marcus Mariota’s second year, really truly like, look at him for about half of the season, maybe a little bit more.
He was elite.
II, I swear like this actually happened in the NFL Marcus Mariotta would look like a future star and we all know what Marcus Mariota’s career became.
Now, everything looks fine with Jordan love.
Like there’s nothing fluky about what he did in the second half and obviously played great against the Cowboys played really well enough for them.
To beat the 49ers 49er has got him at the end.
So I can’t sit here and say that this reason or that reason is why Jordan Love is gonna fail and he’s gonna be a flash in the pan.
It all looks solid.
It all looks like a great foundation, but yet it was just a really, really good half season and he’s got to prove it again to me.
Uh Now you could tell me a story where Jordan love wins.
MVP this year.
Ok. II, I can’t say that, that, that’s crazy based on how he played and the weapons around him and how good the Packers could be this season, but I kinda just need to see it again.
I like him.
I think he’s going to be really good, but I’m also had that in the back of my mind of uh, I, I just don’t love jumping into conclusions off of small sample sizes and I do like go back and look at the Raiders game that, that ain’t a guy.
Look, we’re getting all these lists coming out that right?
Like the top quarterbacks ranking quarterbacks.
I think Jordan love really, really high on some of those lists.
I’m like, go back and the Raiders game wasn’t that long ago.
Go back and look at it.
Does that look like a top three quarterback to you?
No, now he played like lights out obviously after that, but there’s just a little bit of uh I think we both share that a little bit of, let’s see it again before and the Packers are in a tough spot too because they gotta figure out whether to pay this guy or not based on that half season.
I think they’re in love with him and they should be no pun intended, but I, I just, let’s see it.
Let’s see it again before we anoint Tim, one of the top five quarterbacks NFL.
If you take all of your emotion out and you take all of your, this is what I want to have happen.
We have a quarterback that last year had some great games and last year had some terrible games and we had a quarterback that played really well at times against great teams, but also played really poorly against bad teams.
There is just so much evidence on both sides.
I think the incomplete is the only fair grade right now to figure out who Jordan love is that it’s not a popular opinion.
Everybody wants him to be one of the best.
I just what if he turns out to be, you know, middle of the pack.