Jordan Love keeps stacking up reasons for the Packers to lean on him, and Tom Brady noticed.
Brady, who will be on the FOX call when Green Bay visits the New England Patriots this weekend, joined The Herd with Colin Cowherd and gave Love a strong endorsement. He pointed to the way Love has handled a season with plenty of pressure around him, saying the quarterback has been asked to carry the offense and has responded with sharper, steadier play.
“It’s been like, ‘We’re going to put it on your shoulders, and you’re going to have to carry us.’ And he goes into practice every day knowing it’s about his level of execution that’s going to make the offense go, and he’s just done a great job of that,” Brady said.
Brady also said Love is doing more than just surviving the situation.
“I think he’s throwing the ball out of the pocket, in the pocket, down the field. He’s seeing things so well.
Coach LaFleur has got a ton of confidence in him,” he added. “Jordan Love’s just playing exeptional football.
Again, this is the best of his career.”
The numbers back up the praise. Love has put up an NFL-best 2,246 passing yards to go with 16 touchdowns and six interceptions, all while the Packers’ run game has struggled badly.
The offense has had to live with a rushing attack trending toward a historically bad year, an offensive line that has been among the league’s weakest, a league-high number of drops, and Trey Smack missing eight field goals. In that kind of setup, Love has become the engine.
While Love is carrying the offense, another Packers question has been hanging around: why Kevin Zeitler still hasn’t gotten on the field at right guard. Offensive coordinator Adam Stenavich addressed that on Tuesday and said he was “frustrated” with the rushing attack, though he still believes the group can improve.
Stenavich explained that Zeitler’s knee injury was part of the reason the veteran had not been inserted immediately after Green Bay signed him a month ago.
“When we signed him, he was coming off an injury with his knee, so it was kind of a question mark,” Stenavich said. “I think it took him a few weeks to get to the point where he’s at right now where he was kind of working his way back into it. What happened was Laken [Tomlinson] came in and really did a tremendous job, just coming in and really helping out our team and helping out our offensive line.”
He added, “It just was one of those things where I thought he was going to come in and play, but Laken stepped up and did a nice job, and it is what it is right now. Would I hesitate to put him in a game?
No, I would not. He’s ready to play.”
That explanation only tells part of the story, though. Against the Carolina Panthers last week, the Packers kept Zeitler out of the lineup so they could make room for Aaron Banks, not Tomlinson. Tomlinson had been starting at left guard and playing well, but when right guard Travis Glover got hurt and Banks was cleared to return, Green Bay chose to reinstall Banks and move Tomlinson over instead of giving Zeitler the right guard spot.
The result wasn’t pretty. Per Pro Football Focus, Banks allowed four pressures and posted a team-low 39.5 run-blocking grade. The simplest fix would be to put Tomlinson back at left guard and give Zeitler a chance.
The Packers also made a few roster moves, adding edge rusher D.J. Johnson, quarterback Cam Miller, and safety John Saunders Jr. to the practice squad.
Johnson was a third-round pick by the Carolina Panthers in the 2023 NFL Draft and later spent time with the Washington Commanders. He has appeared in 31 NFL games and logged 677 defensive snaps, but he has just half a sack and one quarterback hit.
Green Bay needed another quarterback after the Baltimore Ravens signed Kedon Slovis off the Packers’ practice squad following injuries to Lamar Jackson and Tyler Huntley.
Miller entered the league as a sixth-round pick of the Las Vegas Raiders in 2025. The Miami Dolphins later signed him from the Raiders’ practice squad late last year, and he struggled in preseason this summer, throwing for 170 yards with no touchdowns, two interceptions, and a 33.9 passer rating.
Maybe a new setting helps him settle in behind Jordan Love and Tyrod Taylor.
And for a little Packers history, November 4, 2007 brings back a memorable one. Green Bay trailed the Chiefs 22-16 with 3:13 left in regulation, then ripped off 17 unanswered points to win 33-22.
Brett Favre launched a deep ball off his back foot to Greg Jennings for a 60-yard touchdown, Mason Crosby added a field goal with 1:44 left, and Charles Woodson finished it off with a pick-six. The win gave Favre his first career victory over the Chiefs and made him only the third quarterback in NFL history to beat all 31 teams. At that point, only Tom Brady and Peyton Manning had done it.
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