Jordan Love was supposed to be in the middle of a breakthrough season. Instead, three games into the year, the Packers have left him carrying too much of the burden while the team sinks to 1-2 against some of the NFL’s lowest-ranked opponents.
The biggest issue starts up front. Green Bay’s offensive line has been the league’s worst through three weeks, giving up nearly 15 pressures per game and eight sacks already. The Packers are making changes there now, with veteran free-agent help coming in, but those are moves that could have been made months ago.
The problems don’t stop there. Green Bay has effectively gotten nothing from its running game, and through three weeks it has the fewest rushing yards in the NFL by almost 100 yards. MarShawn Lloyd, Kaleb Johnson and Chris Brooks have combined to give the offense very little out of the backfield.
Even the passing game has been messy around Love. The Packers’ top receivers have been productive enough, but the team also leads the NFL with nine drops in three games, which is nearly double its entire 2025 total in just three weeks.
Add in the penalties and the picture gets even uglier. Green Bay has committed 26 penalties in three games, another league-worst mark, and that kind of self-inflicted damage has chipped away at whatever rhythm Love has been able to build.
Statistically, this has been the worst start of Love’s career as a starter. His success rate, completion percentage and passer rating are all sitting at career lows, a sharp turn in a season when he was expected to take off and maybe even enter the MVP conversation.
That’s why the scrutiny has grown so quickly. National observers are seeing more scrambling and more throwaways than the controlled, methodical quarterback Love usually looks like when he’s driving an offense down the field.
For Green Bay, the message is simple: this is not giving Love the platform he needs. And if the Packers don’t clean it up fast, the damage could reach beyond one bad stretch and into the future of his time in Green Bay.
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