Packers GM Brian Gutekunst discusses Jordan Love's future
The next 10 games of the Green Bay Packers will most likely determine the future of Jordan Love with the organization. That doesn't mean the management doesn't trust the young quarterback can turn things around after an up and down start to his tenure as the leader of the team. But draft position, contract matters, […]
The next 10 games of the Green Bay Packers will most likely determine the future of Jordan Love with the organization. That doesn't mean the management doesn't trust the young quarterback can turn things around after an up and down start to his tenure as the leader of the team. But draft position, contract matters, and performance on the field are factors that the front office has to take into consideration.
That's why, when asked during his press conference on Wednesday how he felt about Jordan Love for the future, Packers general manager Brian Gutekunst said answers will appear until the end of the season.
"We get 10 games left, it's gonna be very important 10 games," Gutekunst said. "He's done a lot of good things for us. I really like the way he's responded to adversity, how he's led the team. Again, we gotta be better as a unit, and I expect that to happen over the next 10 games. We're going through some things that we knew we were going to go through. We haven't had the results we want, but I do like the way guys have responded to things."
That's important because Jordan Love is under contract through 2024. The draft class is considered to have two top quarterback prospects, Caleb Williams and Drake Maye. If the Packers have one of the top two picks, it will be hard to pass up — especially because Love will presumably be bad if the Packers end up in such a position. But if Green Bay doesn't have the capital to get a top prospect, there's little reason to move on so fast after spending three years developing Love.
"(Love has been) A little up and down, like our entire offense," Gutekunst added. "It's been a work in progress with our entire offense. There's been glimpses, particularly in the second halves, of really good football. But we have not started very well. So that unit as a whole has a lot of work to do. I expect better results coming."
The Packers knew it was going to be hard to evaluate so many young players at the same time. Before the season, the expectation was that it would allow them to grow together. Gutekunst said on Wednesday that the process was expected, even though the team wanted better results out of it from the get go.
But for the general manager, if the players keep doing their jobs the right way, the results will be better until the end of the season. And that is applicable to Love as well.
"We have a lot of faith in Jordan," the GM mentioned. "We've got to get the offense playing better, and when it does, those things will take care of themselves."
Gutekunst said the team entered the deadline considering acquiring players, not selling them. But plans changed when the Buffalo Bills were willing to give up a third-round pick in the Rasul Douglas deal, even though the Packers had to send Buffalo a fifth-rounder. For the executive, the opportunity to have another top 100 pick, that means "a top 50 player on our board", was too good to pass up.
Whether they admit it or not, the Packers are in some sort of a rebuilding process. And finding the franchise quarterback of the future is the most important factor. Maybe he is Jordan Love, but nobody is sure of that at this point. The next 10 games, as Gutekunst said, are going to be a big part of the answer.
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