Green Bay Packers quarterback Jordan Love. Jeff Hanisch-USA TODAY Sports

Cowboys star explains how Packers QB Jordan Love compares to Aaron Rodgers

The Green Bay Packers are in the playoffs largely due to a tremendous season from first-year starting quarterback Jordan Love. While Love has impressed with his play, Dallas Cowboys All-Pro Micah Parsons sees Aaron Rodgers reincarnate. 

Ahead of the Cowboys' Super Wild Card Weekend matchup with the Packers, Parsons praised the young QB and explained what parts of Rodgers' game he sees in Love. 

"You can tell he played under Rodgers," Parsons said, via Todd Archer of ESPN. "Some of his mechanics, some of his movements and reads. And fearlessness. You can tell he's learned a lot from Rodgers." 

Parsons' comparison may seem lofty, but Love's numbers and his team's success speaks for itself. 

Love excelled and showed poise beyond his years despite being surrounded by the most inexperienced offense in the NFL while also playing without starting All-Pro left tackle David Bakhtiari and running back Aaron Jones for a spell. Over 17 starts, he ranked second in the NFL in passing touchdowns (32), only two fewer than Cowboys QB and league-leader Dak Prescott, and seventh in passing yards (4,159). Meanwhile, he helped lead the Packers to a 9-8 mark, including three straight wins to close the campaign with the team's back up against the wall. 

While it'd be nice to tie Love's late-season performance together by revealing words of wisdom from Rodgers that stuck with the quarterback, that doesn't seem to be the case. 

When asked by reporters if Rodgers bestowed on him any wisdom about how to approach the postseason, he answered with a resounding "no" before sharing some wise thoughts of his own ahead of his first playoff game. 

"I really don't think there's anything you really change. I think you keep the main thing the main thing," Love said, via the Packers. "Stay dialed in, locked into the process of what I do, what everybody in the locker room does to get themselves ready. But I'm a believer — I feel like you don't change anything — Just keep doing what you're doing."

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