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Packers HC LaFleur gives vital Love leadership update 
Green Bay Packers head coach Matt LaFleur. Sarah Kloepping/USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin / USA TODAY NETWORK via Imagn Images

Packers HC Matt LaFleur gives vital Jordan Love leadership update 

The Green Bay Packers will go as far as quarterback Jordan Love will take them in 2025, and beyond.

If he's a top-10 quarterback, and it's worth noting that he's shown that potential in the past, the Packers will have opened yet another Super Bowl "window."

If he's underwhelming, though — he's also had some bad moments in his young NFL career — the Packers could be entering a very tough era. That's not to mention that the jobs of those who moved on from four-time MVP Aaron Rodgers in favor of Love, general manager Brian Gutekunst and head coach Matt LaFleur, will likely be lost.

There's a ton riding on Love's arm for the Packers, and perhaps that's why one of the aforementioned men, LaFleur, is hyping him up this fall.

That, or Love truly is the next "real deal" quarterback in Green Bay. 

Either way, LaFleur recently gushed about his quarterback to ESPN's Jeremy Fowler. Not only is Love looking good in camp, but as the team's quarterback, he's become a vocal leader.

"Night and day," LaFleur said of Love's desire to be vocal. "Even from last year, and I thought he took a big jump last year. Way more presence. As the kids say, he's got aura."

Love, the leader, is a big update for the Packers because he's not naturally an outspoken person. This is an organization that has gone from two larger-than-life personalities in Brett Favre and Aaron Rodgers to a player who is naturally more understated.

This has been a transitional period for the Packers, without a doubt, but eventually that transition has to end and something has to be established. 

If that's Love as the true leader of this franchise for the next decade, Gutekunst and LaFleur will be hailed as heroes, much like Ted Thompson and Mike McCarthy were before them when they shepherded the transition between Favre and Rodgers.

No pressure, right? According to LaFleur, the nice thing for Love is that even though he's the main fulcrum point for this team, he does have people around him who can also step up.

"You can see the urgency he's playing with right now," LaFleur said. "A lot of times in this [era], you're going to go as far as your quarterback goes. But it does take everybody around him playing at a high level."

Andrew Kulha

Andrew Kulha is probably the only sports writer you know who also doubles as a mortician. Spooky! @KulhaSports

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