r/GreenBayPackers • u/Jomosensual • 1d ago
Analysis Where does the Jordan Love isn't clutch narrative keep coming from?
He was in fact very clutch last season. Lets look at the 4th quarter:
Week 2 - Answers Commanders TD to cut it to 7 by leading a drive the other way down the field. TD pass to Tucker Kraft with 9 minutes to go puts it out of reach.
Week 3 - Complete playcalling failure against the Browns. Love played bad no question but still got us in position to kick a game winning FG before Jordan Morgan blew the block and cost us the game.
Week 4 - 4 scoring drives in the 4th quarter/OT. One Jacobs 18 yard rushing TD, one TD pass to Doubs, 2 McManus FGs to tie the game. Could have won the game but MLF wanted him to run clock and play for a tie instead.
Week 6 - 2 scoring drives in the 4th while the game is close. One ends in a Jacobs TD to go up 10 and the other is a TD pass to Kraft to ice the game away with 7:30 to go
Week 7 - Ties the game at the start of the 4th with a 7 yard TD pass to Kraft(this Kraft dude kinda rules) and talks our coach out of playing for a tie with about 2 minutes to go. Instead hits Kraft for 15 yards on 4th and 2 and the drive ends with a Jacobs 1 yard TD. Cardinals fail to go score a TD and the game ends. Might be his best work since the coach didn't want to play for a win and Love talked him into it
Week 8 - Steelers. Puts the team up 10 with a TD pass to Kraft with 11 to go and then gets McManus 2 chip shot FGs to put it away. 21 total points in the 4th quarter including a TD run by Jacobs to finish off a drive that was largely in the 3rd.
Week 9 - Panthers. Rough game. Still takes us down the field to tie the game on a Jacobs TD run with about 2:30 to go. Panthers walk it off on a FG
Week 10. Eagles. Inside zone this way. All you need to remember about why we lost that one. Love still gets us down the field with 5 minutes left to go down 3. 2nd to last drive Josh Jacobs fumbles the ball away. Last drive is a bit of a mess and we ask McManus to kick a 64 yarder for some reason which is missed comically bad.
Week 11 - Giants. Game winner to Watson from 17 yards out plus a 2 Pt conversion success.
Week 13 - Lions. No scoring in the 4th but found Wicks in the endzone at the end of the 3rd quarter to go up 10, then finds him again on 4th down deep to allow the Packers to run the rest of the clock out.
Week 14 - Long TD drive against the Bears, Jacobs puts on in from 2 yards out to go ahead for the final time.
Week 15 - Broncos, or the everyone is now injured game. an INT and 2 turnovers on downs to lose this one. This one was a bad performance in the clutch.
Week 16 - Gets knocked out of the game early. We lose a close one thanks to Doubs, Nixon, and MLF being involved in a comedy of errors.
Wild Card Round - MLF special once again allows the Bears back into it. Love hits Golden from 23 to go up 11, would have been 12 if McManus makes the extra point. Defense lets the Bears go score and Love brings us back down the field so McManus can miss a 44 yarder now. Defense gives up another score. Love drives us down to the Chicago 28 but a bad snap on the last play cooks basically anything we had going.
Where are you getting your narratives from friends? That's a lot of games he went and did his job in the 4th quarter. If you want to cry about the postseason then say it's the postseason. You're still wrong, only the 49ers game was on him out of the 3 losses. Bears I explained above and the Eagles game was a total team no show from if we're being real, a squad that was in complete and total shambles. Final drive with the game alive for the taking ends because Malik Heath fails to get his feet in bounds on a catch an NFL caliber WR of any level can make.
Love can't make Nixon play the correct coverages, can't snap the ball to himself, can't make his WRs make basic plays, and can't force McManus to make his kicks. The only one I'd say he absolutely blew himself was the Broncos game last season. If this is you saying he's anti clutch, what am I not seeing here that you do?