Green Bay Packers Fans Brutally Roast Colin Cowherd After Latest Jordan Love Comments Following Week 17

The Green Bay Packers are 8-8 and one win away from making the NFL Playoffs.

When the season first started, nobody predicted that they would be in this position. Indeed, the choice to replace Aaron Rodgers with Jordan Love had many people, including Packers supporters, expecting that the 2023 season would be fraught with difficulties and growing pains.

There were certainly a lot of them. The Packers were 2-5 at one time and appeared to be a team that would draft in the top ten of the 2024 NFL Draft. However, Love and the offense have righted the ship and have recently put together some great games. Love has a 63.1% completion percentage, 3,843 yards, 30 touchdowns, and 11 interceptions in 16 games.

Prior to the season, and especially during Green Bay’s terrible run of games in October, many criticized Love and the decision to draft and keep him. National skeptics such as Skip Bayless and Colin Cowherd lamented the Packers’ decision, claiming that he would never be a good NFL quarterback.

Their aggressive analysis has made them, and many others, appear silly. Even Cowherd, who previously described Love as a “game manager” and “nothing special,” has altered his tune.

Colin Cowherd Changes His Mind About Green Bay Packers Quarterback Jordan Love

The NFL is a “what have you done for me lately” type of business. While terrible teams exist every year, every fan base (and owner) expects their team to win quickly and frequently. Players, in their minds, should enter the NFL as Pro Bowl type players who do not require development.

That, of course, is not the case. Many players take one, two, or even three years to fully develop. This is particularly true with quarterbacks, who may arguably the most scrutinized position in sports.

Because of the pressure to “win now,” many players are forced to start jobs when they are not prepared. In Green Bay, however, the front office has chosen to draft and develop. That method may bore fans and drive them insane, but it has produced the team’s third franchise quarterback in a row.

In one of his most recent segments, Cowherd analyzes this method, how it distinguishes Green Bay, and why Love is so successful:

.@ColinCowherd has come around on Jordan Love…

Why the Packers' QB has found his footing in Green Bay pic.twitter.com/9zyhLAq7GC

— Herd w/Colin Cowherd (@TheHerd) January 1, 2024

Cowherd explains how it took decades for the Denver Broncos and Miami Dolphins to replace their first Hall of Fame quarterbacks (John Elway and Dan Marino, respectively). He then highlights how Green Bay did everything properly in terms of acquiring a quarterback:

“Patience. Development. He was bad in October. Like, I was like ‘This doesn’t work. This is bad.’ But that’s the difference from like Chicago, where they can’t get quarterback right, and in Green Bay, where they always seem to get quarterback right.

“Offensive coach, good receiver drafts, patience, develop, not forced to play right away. Doesn’t get beat up physically, doesn’t get beat up emotionally. If you put Justin Fields in Green Bay and Jordan Love in Chicago, I don’t know this to be true, but it wouldn’t shock me if their careers were reversed.”

Cowherd is plainly just repeating the most popular narrative of the day. This is a man who was shouting Love’s virtues every week leading up to the 2020 NFL Draft, and then, when Green Bay selected him, decided that Love was the worst quarterback in human history.

While Cowherd will tell you that Love was bad in October, you have to cringe at how firmly and smugly he explains the Packers’ approach to player development. He talks about it as if he knew it would work out all along, while in fact he was one of the most outspoken critics.

Anything for ratings, I suppose.