The Green Bay Packers knew that there would be some struggles in the 2023 season given the overturn on the roster the last few offseason. This season they underwent another massive change with Jordan Love taking over the starting quarterback job from Aaron Rodgers.
Gutekunst’s seat should be hot too.
Hey, it’s not like he had a first ballot HOF MVP on his roster signed to a long term deal when he made that Jordan Love pick or anything
That pick continues to baffle me, they made it seem like at that point Rodgers was constantly wavering on retiring but it always seemed like the opposite before then, he has talked about going until he was in his 40s. I was hoping they were going to select Tee Higgins with that pick
A Packers fan told me last week I was being “revisionist” and “a clown” because “hindsight is 20/20” and there was no way to know how Aaron’s career would go at the time of the pick.
The honest ones will tell you he didn’t look like his gods laying self in 2019, but will also tell you he was still very good while learning a new system and showed no signs of dropping off a cliff.
The fo fans will tell you picking Love was the sole reason he got those two mvps.
I will tell you he was finally fully healthy.
I will start by saying that I wasn’t happy picking Love where they did with so many players available that would have immediately added to a Super Bowl contender.
But I can kind of see some logic when you look at what was happening in the world. Rodgers had just shown a possible bit of decline. Covid was threatening both NFL and NCAA seasons. If the following NCAA season was shut down AND Rodgers was in an actual decline due to age, the Packers would have come into a season without the chance to draft a potential starter at QB because there wouldn’t have been another year of growth for underclassman. IF that happened they would have had to either draft a guy that was passed over in the entire previous draft or who missed a year of development or decide to wait for a different QB while drafting other players to build the roster. The covid years were tumultuous. Gute hedged his bets against covid and lost on that draft. I still don’t like the pick. But with the context that specific pic does make a bit of sense.
Nah as a Packers fan they lost in the nfc championship year before and it was clear we needed another weapon at wr other than adams. There were so many talented relievers in that class and they draft a one. I was immediately disappointed with that draft. Immediately.
They had just won 13 games and drafted a QB2, RB3, and FB/TE hybrid in the first 3 rounds. It was awful the day it happened.
Then you have the people who thought we should have traded him last year coming off of 13 wins and an MVP. Missing the playoffs was still better than quitting on a championship window.
Absolutely. But the attached article links to a Bleacher Report poll and some dude complaining about the Packers poor performance as the “source” for being on the hot seat.