Jordan Love reintroduced himself to the football world in relief of Aaron Rodgers at Philadelphia in 2022. On Friday night, he’ll lead the Packers against the Eagles to start the 2024 season.
With Aaron Rodgers out with COVID for a 2021 game at Kansas City, Love made his first NFL start. It was a disaster. The Packers lost 13-7. Their only third-down conversions and only points of the game came during the final possession. He went 7-of-18 when blitzed with a feeble 2.2 yards per attempt.With Rodgers knocked out of the game with injured ribs, Love came off the bench. In two series, he was 6-of-9 passing for 113 yards and one touchdown and led the Packers to 10 points.
“There’s always nerves,” Love, who is getting ready to face the Eagles for a Week 1 showdown in Brazil, said after Sunday’s practice. “And I think every more when you’re a backup, the starter gets injured, you’re coming in, and the starter is Aaron Rodgers, too. But Love has made 19 starts since that night in Philadelphia. Love, like Rodgers so many times before, dominated the Chicago Bears in a Week 1 statement. Most of the remainder of the first half of the season seemed to create more questions than answers, but Love delivered an emphatic statement during a dominant second half of the season. He thrived in pressure-packed games to rally the Packers into the playoffs, then demolished the Dallas Cowboys in the wild-card round.
“It’s a stressful situation, but I trusted myself and was confident in my ability and just treated it like another game for me. Had to really go back to my college days and my mindset for getting ready for gamedays and things like that, because it’s a been a long time where you’re not really processing, ‘OK, I’m starting this game off and taking the first snap.’ And being on the sideline kind of being able to see what the defense is doing while the starter’s out there, so it’s different.
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