Jordan Love started his season with back-to-back games of three touchdowns and no interceptions.
Since then, he has thrown six interceptions in three games, two of which the Packers lost.
The team has more questions than answers heading into its bye week after Love’s performance in Green Bay’s “Monday Night Football” loss to the Raiders.
Love failed to complete 16 of 30 passes for 182 yards and three interceptions, leading to a 17-13 loss despite the Packers’ best efforts up until the very last second.
Love threw a pass 35 yards to the end zone with 51 seconds left on the clock and two downs to work with, but the ball hung up long enough for Raiders CB Amik Robertson to easily come down with it.
The third interceptions Jordan Love has thrown this game.
After the game, Matt LaFleur, the coach of the Packers, made it clear that he still had faith in Love.
While acknowledging that any three-turnover performance is “tough to overcome,” LaFleur said he needs to do a better job of not putting Love in a position where an interception is possible.
“I think there are some things that I need to do a better job of in terms of what we’re asking him to do, and try not to put him in a position where he’s susceptible to maybe throwing the picks,” the author said.
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Love’s earlier turnover was referred to as a “bang-bang” play by LaFleur, who also claimed that the Raiders made a play on a “50/50 ball” that served as the game-winning interception.
After the game, Love told reporters that the interception to Robertson in the fourth quarter was his fault.
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I guess I just threw it a little under.
Didn’t cover it enough,” he said
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The camera caught LaFleur noticing Watson running open on the crucial final play, but it’s possible that he didn’t see him in time.
Love suffered drops on the Packers’ final drive, but it was a night of regression for the quarterback who had a passer rating well above 100 in each of his first two starts the previous month.
It’s interesting to note that throughout his Packers career, Aaron Rodgers never played a game with no touchdown passes and three interceptions.
He only recorded three interceptions in five of his games.
The Packers may use their bye week to determine what must be done to make Love look like the quarterback he did during the first three weeks of the season, even though they don’t need him to be Rodgers in his first season as the starting quarterback in the NFL.