Rodgers and Love: QB Drama Returns to Green Bay
The Lead
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🗓️ 30 April 2020
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
The Green Bay Packers shocked the football world when they selected Utah State quarterback Jordan Love in the first round of this year's draft. The pick was immediately compared to 2005, when the Packers selected Aaron Rodgers in the first round while Hall of Famer Brett Favre was still the undisputed leader of the team. Rodgers is even the same age Favre was when he was selected. Today, we're joined by Dan Rubenstein, host of Wondery's Sports Wars and The Solid Verbal podcast, to talk about the parallels between Favre, Rodgers and Love, why the Packers drafted a QB, and whether or not Aaron Rodgers will treat Jordan Love the way Brett Favre treated him.
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| 0:00.0 | The Green Bay Packers made what many consider the most shocking pick of this year's NFL |
| 0:10.4 | draft. |
| 0:11.4 | The Green Bay Packers select Jordan Love, Portabac, Utah State. |
| 0:19.8 | The pack drafted the young QB at a time when their star, Aaron Rogers, still has a few years |
| 0:24.1 | left on his contract, echoing the way that Rogers came into the league under the legendary |
| 0:28.3 | Brett Farve. |
| 0:29.7 | Today, we're joined by Dan Rubenstein, host of Wondery Sports Wars and the Solid Verbal |
| 0:34.3 | Podcast. |
| 0:35.6 | To talk about the packer's controversial move, how it compares to when Rogers was drafted, |
| 0:40.5 | and why Green Bay has been reluctant to get Rogers offensive help. |
| 0:44.3 | Our quarterback is so good that he can make above average receivers really good. |
| 0:49.8 | And so we don't need to invest in the best of the best when we can invest that hypothetically |
| 0:54.8 | to other necessary places on the field. |
| 1:00.3 | From Wondery on the Athletic, I'm Kavitha Davidson. |
| 1:03.7 | And I'm Anders Kelto. |
| 1:05.0 | It's Thursday, April 30th, and this is The Lead. |
| 1:08.7 | It felt like something great was happening. |
| 1:12.8 | There was just something about the emotion and the moment. |
| 1:16.6 | No, no, no, no, no. |
| 1:18.2 | The failures of the past don't matter because we've got this now. |
| 1:20.8 | You can't pay. |
| 1:21.8 | I've seen anything like that. |
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