Packers WR makes bold claim about Jordan Love vs. Aaron Rodgers
If former first-round pick Jordan Love is going to succeed as the starting quarterback of the Green Bay Packers, second-year receiver Romeo Doubs will presumably factor in to the equation.
So, it should come as no surprise that Doubs is telling anyone who will listen that not only is Love capable of running the Packers offense just as effectively as Aaron Rodgers did, but he doesn’t see much of, if any, drop-off from Rodgers to the 24-year-old QB.
"I think Jordan can do it," Doubs told Dennis Krause of Spectrum News 1 in Wisconsin. "I think Jordan is a really good quarterback. When you go from Aaron Rodgers to Jordan, Aaron was a really great quarterback, but I believe Jordan can do the same exact thing. So I don't really see what's the big difference."
Rodgers has a Hall of Fame résumé while Love has 83 career pass attempts. Rodgers has four NFL MVPs and First-Team All-Pro selections, a Second-Team All-Pro selection, 10 Pro Bowls, a Super Bowl championship and a spot on the NFL 2010s All-Decade Team.
While Doubs may believe what he’s preaching, many media pundits are not that naïve. Neither is Packers head coach Matt LaFleur, who essentially said that exact thing at the NFL annual meeting at the end of March.
"Certainly, I think we're fooling ourselves if we think he's going to go out there and perform at a level to the likes of an Aaron Rodgers," LaFleur said, via ESPN’s Rob Demovsky. "This guy is a once-in-a-lifetime generational talent, and I don't think it necessarily started that way when he first started. But he progressed into that.”
At that same meeting, LaFleur told reporters to temper their expectations for Love’s first year as a starter, stating the Packers offense would be a work in progress with Love under center.
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