For a first-year starting quarterback, there are going to be good games and bad games. In Game 8 of their debut seasons, it was role reversal for Jordan Love and Aaron Rodgers.
GREEN BAY, Wis. – In beating the Los Angeles Rams on Sunday, Green Bay Packers quarterback Jordan Love had his best game of the season with 76.9 percent accuracy.Not close to making a mistake, Love snapped a five-game streak with at least one interception.
“Offensively,” Love said, “having the lead, the message was, ‘Just go put ‘em out. Find a way to go out there and finish the game with the ball, put up some more points, help the defense out and just put the game away.’ And on that note, the defense, they balled out today. But the message for the offense was just go out there and finish the game. Put up some more points and finish the game.”
But who knows what the final score would have been had the line not been flagged for lining up offside on a pair of fourth-and-1 quarterback sneaks. Who knows what might have happened without Dontayvion Wicks’ self-induced fumble to start the second half and Aaron Jones’ fumble on the next drive.In his eighth game as a starter, Rodgers and the Packers lost 19-16 in overtime to the Tennessee Titans.
With the game tied at 16 and a chance to win the game, Rodgers and the offense took over at their 18 with 4:24 remaining. A pair of completions to Donald Driver moved the ball to the Titans’ 45, but Rodgers was 1-of-3 for 2 yards to set up a punt.In 2008, Tennessee improved to 8-0 on its way to a 10-0 start to the season. In 2023, with Matthew Stafford inactive due to a thumb injury, the Rams dropped their third straight and fell to 3-6 as the Packers snapped a four-game skid.
Jordan Love and Matt LaFleur celebrate the clinching touchdown.Photo by Mark Hoffman/USA Today Sports ImagesWeek 1, at Chicago : 15-of-27 passing, 245 yards, three touchdowns vs. zero interceptions, 123.2 rating.
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