The reason most people are skeptical of the 26 Green Bay Packers is because they're wrong about Jordan Love.

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On the show today, I want to talk about if the Packers can follow the trend of everybody

playing all these big people, all these big tight ends and all that stuff.

The Packers made some

promotions in the front office. I actually think one truly does matter, but let's start with

Jordan Love. Or maybe more precisely, let's start with the perception of this 2026 Packers team.

And we don't need to go back and fall down the rabbit hole of the disrespect and the fans that like being underdogs and all that stuff.

I don't want to do that.

We've talked enough about that kind of stuff.

But we were talking on the squad show about where Jordan loves place is in the NFL hierarchy. And we were talking on the squad show about where Jordan Love's place is in the NFL hierarchy

and we were talking about this team and the perception of this team and the point that I

have been trying to make is that the floor for this Packers team because of Matt LaFleur and

Jordan Love and I've been making this case back to last year, is only so low because those guys are good.

And we have the recency bias of the LaFleur struggles at the end of the year and the collapse and all that stuff.

And that gets hung, I think, in a lot of ways unfairly on Matt LaFlor.

And I think it gets hung unfairly on Jordan Love.

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