Is Jordan Love Actually Being Held Back — Or Is Everyone Just Making Stuff Up?
Packernet Podcast: Daily Green Bay Packers Podcast
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4.7 • 524 Ratings
🗓️ 31 March 2026
⏱️ 77 minutes
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Summary
Pack Daddy woke up ready to hand this one off to Sal — then read the headline, watched the clip, and decided this one was personal. After catching Joe Thomas on Wildie & Tauch arguing that Matt LaFleur needs to "unleash" Jordan Love and that there are training wheels on the offense, Ryan went point-by-point through the entire segment to pick it apart — with receipts.
- The core complaint: Every claim in the Joe Thomas segment is an assertion built on feelings with zero data to back it up — and Pack Daddy calls it out relentlessly, demanding proof at every turn instead of just vibe-based football takes
- The numbers don't lie: Jordan Love ranked #1 in the entire NFL in EPA per play on third down in 2025, #5 in completion percentage over expected, and #1 in success rate — so the "he can't perform on third down because we run too much on first down" argument falls completely apart
- LaFleur's system IS the offense: Ryan makes a passionate case that the LaFleur-Love pairing is a feature, not a bug — and that demanding Jordan operate outside the scheme is the same kind of thinking that made the Rodgers era messy
- The PFF case for Love: An 89 passing grade in 2025, with Joe Burrow (8 games) and Matt Stafford as the only QBs rated higher — Ryan asks plainly: at what point do we just crown the guy?
If you've been nodding along to the "Jordan Love needs more freedom" narrative, Pack Daddy has a direct challenge for you: find one data point. Just one. Call in at 608-501-0718 and make your case — he's ready for you.
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| 0:00.0 | Oh, ladies and gentlemen, welcome once again to the Packernet podcast. I am your host and |
| 0:14.4 | resident fanalyst as always Ryan Schlipp. Check us out online, packernet.com. Find me on |
| 0:20.6 | Twitter pack underscore datah. |
| 0:23.7 | Well, this is one of those instances that I had talked about. I think it was Batman. |
| 0:28.2 | I'm not sure. That's going to sound ridiculous if you don't listen to Backernet after Dark. |
| 0:32.2 | But yes, I was talking to Batman. And again, forgive me if it wasn't him. But one of the thoughts, |
| 0:41.5 | I won't say complaints, but one of the thoughts in regard to Sal is we want you doing the |
| 0:47.2 | rants, not Sal taking over that. And what I said is he's not going to take over rants. He may |
| 0:52.6 | do them, and I may even do them later, if I feel like it, or if I don't, I'll just be like, ah, that's a piddly one. You take it. I got my own thing. So I wake up today, et cetera, et cetera. I'm like, all right, Sal, what are we doing today, bud? and I head over to packernet.com because, of course, that's a good place to find Packers News. |
| 1:15.0 | It's all aggregated there. |
| 1:16.9 | Very top one, I see. |
| 1:19.9 | Hall of Famer says Jordan Love must confront Matt LaFleur to finally unlock his full potential as a quarterback. |
| 1:25.0 | And I'm like, ooh, that's a juicy one. |
| 1:27.2 | Perfect. Click on it, listen to, that's a juicy one. Perfect. |
| 1:28.4 | Click on it, listen to it, Joe Thomas on Wildy and Tausch. |
| 1:33.2 | And it's just a little clip. |
| 1:34.8 | I went and found the YouTube to find the full thing. |
| 1:42.1 | And as you might know, this is a pet peeve of mine. This idea that Jordan Love has |
| 1:52.2 | training wheels on, and that's a real problem. It is a very constant. It's more national media, |
| 1:59.3 | I would say, than within the Packers fan base, but there's |
| 2:01.8 | still a decent portion of the Packers fan base that feels this way. And just listening to him, |
| 2:08.9 | my blood started to boil. And then I started thinking, what do I do here? Because Sal might agree |
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