GREEN BAY, WISCONSIN – AUGUST 14: Jordan Love #10 of the Inexperienced Bay Packers throws a cross throughout warmups earlier than the preseason recreation in opposition to the Houston Texans at Lambeau Area on August 14, 2021 in Inexperienced Bay, Wisconsin. (Photograph by Patrick McDermott/Getty Photos)
Jordan Love is coming into his third NFL season and has solely performed in six common season video games with one begin.
Nonetheless, that pattern dimension plus what Love has achieved in two preseason video games this summer time is already sufficient for FS1’s Colin Cowherd to declare the 2020 first-rounder a failed choose.
“The decision is in. The folks within the Midwest are good. I’ll be not so good. Jordan Love is a bust,” Cowherd stated on “The Herd” on Monday. “He leads the NFL in preseason picks. Third 12 months, no progress.
“If I’ve to listen to once more ‘the numbers do not inform the story,’ yeah they sort of do. Fifty p.c completion share in apply or in opposition to second-team defenses. Properly, he did not play so much in faculty. Kyler Murray performed a 12 months in faculty. Jordan Love performed components of three years in faculty. Expertise rises shortly. It is easy to identify.”
Love began and noticed intensive enjoying time in Friday evening’s 20-10 preseason win over the New Orleans Saints. His stat line was pedestrian–12-of-24 passing, 113 yards, one touchdown–but Inexperienced Bay head coach Matt LaFleur came away impressed.
“I do know the numbers do not essentially mirror most likely how I really feel,” LaFleur stated. “He stood within the pocket and was throwing on rhythm. Sadly once more we had too many drops.
“He was decisive. I believe that is the massive factor from him. I see a way more decisive participant on the market. I believe that is going to result in a way more efficient participant.”
LaFleur additionally stated that Love is “mild years” forward of the place he was presently final 12 months. Whereas we do not have a definitive reply but on how Love’s professional profession will end up, clearly his coach feels in a different way about him than Colin Cowherd does.
