Packers: Brian Gutekunst takes weird shot at Jordan Love
Jordan Love is formally QB1 for the Inexperienced Bay Packers however GM Brian Gutekunst didn’t make it sound just like the workforce was thrilled about that.
Aaron Rodgers is now a New York Jets. Maybe extra importantly for Green Bay Packers followers, although, that implies that Jordan Love is now formally QB1 and would be the starter for a full season for the primary time in his profession.
Apparently sufficient, although, him coming into his first offseason because the starter leaves the Packers with a novel state of affairs in that they’ve till Tuesday, Could 2 to resolve on the fifth-year choice for the quarterback’s rookie contract. They haven’t decided both manner but.
When requested about that after the 2023 NFL Draft, although, normal supervisor Brian Gutekunst addressed the matter in a manner that was none too variety to his new beginning quarterback, a participant he drafted within the first spherical in 2020.
“It’s some huge cash for a man who hasn’t performed,” Gutekunst mentioned. “However on the similar time we’re shifting ahead with him.”
Packers GM Brian Gutekunst weirdly throws shade at Jordan Love
Objectively, Gutekunst is appropriate in saying that Jordan Love “hasn’t performed”, having made one profession begin for a then-injured Rodgers in 2021 after which solely seeing the sphere sporadically in any other case. It’s the stunningly unconfident second a part of the response that actually strikes a nerve, although.
After very clearly catering the post-first-round plans within the draft towards organising Love and the offense with higher weapons, it’s extraordinarily unusual for the Packers GM to then take the microphone and never specific an oz. of perception within the workforce’s quarterback. That’s positively not the correct of message to ship.
Furthermore, whereas Gutekunst is anxious concerning the cash for a participant who “hasn’t performed,” the cap hit in 2024 for the fifth-year choice for Love can be $20.272 million, per Over the Cap. If Love goes out, performs nicely in his first season as QB1, and the Packers don’t choose up his choice, then they’re going to need to pay far more than that in 2024 to re-sign him primarily based on the present quarterback market.
Even when Love is middling or unhealthy, the Packers don’t have another choice on the roster to usher in for 2024 straight away, so likelihood is they’d find yourself re-signing him and giving him one other probability anyway and permit this participant who “hasn’t performed” to garner extra expertise. Maybe that deal is cheaper than $20 million, however on the similar time, there’s an opportunity it’s not provided that he’s a former first-rounder and if he had been to point out any flashes amid inconsistency.
If I needed to guess, Gutekunst goes to swallow his phrases earlier than Could 2 and choose up the fifth-year choice. That doesn’t make his post-draft feedback on Jordan Love any much less befuddling, although.
