The Green Bay Packers and Jordan Love agreed to a four-year contract extension late Friday night, seemingly pulling off yet another transition of quarterbacking power. While the modern media landscape prevented the shift from what we’d consider seamless—the man Love was replacing was, after all, sequestered in a darkness retreat, could not apparently receive phone calls that weren’t via FaceTime and had a standing guest spot on a talk show once a week where he buried supposed truths about the process inside a hot pocket of conspiracy theories—the Packers’ ability to keep the team from being bad for an elongated period of time while a new quarterback assumes the reigns is nothing short of staggering.
Having the team do it a second time, assuming that Love plays the way he did over the back half of the 2023 season, also feels like a bit of kismet for the rest of the NFL coming off a ‘24 draft in which six teams selected supposed quarterbacks of the future, many of whom could use some seasoning.
