Packers HC Matt LaFleur is applauded for what he’s done without Jordan Love

When Green Bay Packers starting quarterback Jordan Love went down with a knee injury in the team’s 34-29 season-opening loss to the Philadelphia Eagles, many had written the team off for as long as Love was out.

But head coach Matt LaFleur rallied his team around backup QB Malik Willis and scrounged together two impressive wins over the Indianapolis Colts and Tennessee Titans, Willis’ former team, and Green Bay is sitting with a 2-1 record, with the possibility of Love returning in Week 4 or 5.

The job LaFleur did in not only keeping the Packers season from slipping away but getting above-average QB play out of Willis wasn’t lost on his peers, and two NFL coaches recently admitted to The Athletic’s Mike Sando that they were impressed with what he’s done over the last two weeks.

“I’ll give LaFleur and his offensive staff a lot of credit,” one anonymous coach said. “That is the biggest test, when you have to adjust on the fly. You’ve planned it a certain way, and then all of a sudden, you have a whole different set of circumstances.”

“Everybody expected them to do what Miami did (against Seattle), just bottom out,” a second coach stated. “They adjusted to the quarterback and ran the hell out of the ball. You got to give them credit for what they are doing. Can you sustain that long term? They don’t have to.”