No NFL franchise has a richer history of winning tradition than the Green Bay Packers. They still hold the record for most league championships (13), which includes four Super Bowl rings in the 59 years since the NFL-AFL merger.
The three quarterbacks responsible for those four rings, Bart Starr, Brett Favre and Aaron Rodgers, all became NFL champions in their Age-27 season. Jordan Love finally looks capable of joining that club in the 2025 season.
Love, who turned 27 on Nov. 2, has had the best two-game stretch of the season and emerged as a late MVP candidate at the ideal time. The tundra is getting closer to being frozen in Lambeau Field, but Love turned up the heat with his play in Sunday's massive 28-21 shootout victory over a game Caleb Williams and the Bears.
Love (17-of-25, 234 yards, 3 TDs, INT, 9.4 YPA, 120.7 rating) was no doubt better, more dynamic and more efficient than Williams (19-of-35, 186 yards, 2 TDs, INT, 5.3 YPA, 76.6 rating). That was after Love lit up the Lions (18-of-30, 234 yards, 4 TDs, 7.8 YPA, 124.2 rating) with the same passing total at Detroit in Week 13.
The Packers (9-3-1) are also hotter than ever in 2025, with their season-high four-game winning streak to take over first place in the NFC North over the now second-place Bears (9-4) and third-place Lions (8-5). Love, much like his team, has been rather streaky. But any offensive concerns that may have lingered about Green Bay can now be put to rest.
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How Jordan Love has put Packers back on track
Every knows the Packers, with Micah Parsons closing for the defense, has enough dominance and playmakers on that side of the ball to win the Super Bowl. Love now is providing the necessary complementary scoring unit to put the Packers on the short list of Super Bowl 60-winning favorites in a wide-open, top-heavy NFL season.
Green Bay went into Week 14 as the No. 10 scoring offense at 24.3 points per game. That's up to 24.8 after Sunday. During the four-game winning streak, the Packers averaged 27.3 points per game. They have won every game by seven points or more.
Now it looks like that two-game skid in early November — 16-13 home loss to the Panthers, 10-7 home loss to the Eagles — is a distant anomalous memory. Love has risen as the mercury has dropped and there's good reason for it too.
Love was counting plenty on tight end Tucker Kraft to get him through key wide receiver injury issues, with their top two playmakers, Christian Watson and Jayden Reed on the shelf. There was a little hiccup when Kraft went down with a season-ending torn ACL early vs. The Panthers.
Now Watson is back, making big catches downfield through the red zone. Romeo Doubs, Bo Melton, and Dontayvion Wicks have been key contributors of late. Reed returned to having a rushing and receiving impact vs. The Bears. Luke Musgrave is settling in better as Kraft's key fill-in. The running game is a consistent foundation with both Josh Jacobs and Emanuel Wilson.
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An offense that looked short on weapons and explosiveness to match the balance is now become dangerous with Love's big confident arm at the controls. That should be the expectation for the prime of his career after how well he's played succeeding Rodgers the past three seasons, with a mega QB contract to match.
Love is back rolling with scheme and personnel for Matt LaFleur. It has shades of Starr with Vince Lombardi, Favre with Mike Holmgren, Rodgers with Mike McCarthy.
It's difficult to believe it's been 15 years since Rodgers delivered Super Bowl 45 to add to the Packers' hardware. There was plenty of playoff disappointment for LaFleur with Rodgers.
But Love with LaFleur has seen the two Packers' playoff runs end vs. The 49ers and Eagles, the past two NFC champions. In both cases, Green Bay was capped by being a wild-card team behind Detroit.
Now the Packers are sitting on the No. 2 seed, only a half-game behind the NFC West-leading Rams (10-3). By beating the Lions (for a season sweep) and Bears back-to-back, they should feel confident they can take back the division title. Love played a big part in those victories.
The Broncos, Bears, Ravens and Vikings round out the schedule. The Packers should feel that their brand of complementary football between offense and defense is great enough to win out now. With Love playing the way he is now, Green Bay is set up to carry that momentum to add to a familiar Super Bowl-winning QB legacy.