He is leading an offense which is extremely shorthanded. From a salary cap perspective, the Packers’ top paid offensive players outside of Love are as follows:
Aaron Rodgers (40.3M) - not on the team
David Bahktiari (21.3M) - on IR, and only played 1 game.
Aaron Jones (8.2M) - Injured most of the season, mostly limited in all but about 2 games.
Elgton Jenkins (6.7M) - Injured and limited for first 2/3 of season.
Christian Watson (2.1M) - Missed 1/3 of season and arguably limited for the rest.
That’s almost 79M of cap space dedicated to offensive players who have not been able to contribute fully, and 62.6M that have had basically no contribution. On the one game that both Bahk and Jones were available Love posted 3 TD / 0 Int 123 passer rating (admittedly not being his cleanest game).
Even if we include the limited players (Jenkins, Watson, Jones), the Packers salary cap spending on offense is basically 43M, and if we discount those players then we’re somewhere between there an 26M. And it’s not like the numbers are artificially low because we’ve just signed big name players to extensions. This really hammers home the lack of proven, veteran talent on this offense relative to what many other teams in the league are working with.
I find it funny that people would blame (insert QB name) shortcoming on the FO failing to provide them with a good enough WR2-3, and yet at the same time think that Love should be putting up consistent excellent numbers with this level of lack of proven talent.
Now, I dont’ think that Love has been perfect by any means, and he certainly has room to improve. But I dont’ think there’s a single QB in the entire league that you could argue has been able to do more with less around him.
By some, absolutely.
He is leading an offense which is extremely shorthanded. From a salary cap perspective, the Packers’ top paid offensive players outside of Love are as follows:
Aaron Rodgers (40.3M) - not on the team
David Bahktiari (21.3M) - on IR, and only played 1 game.
Aaron Jones (8.2M) - Injured most of the season, mostly limited in all but about 2 games.
Elgton Jenkins (6.7M) - Injured and limited for first 2/3 of season.
Christian Watson (2.1M) - Missed 1/3 of season and arguably limited for the rest.
That’s almost 79M of cap space dedicated to offensive players who have not been able to contribute fully, and 62.6M that have had basically no contribution. On the one game that both Bahk and Jones were available Love posted 3 TD / 0 Int 123 passer rating (admittedly not being his cleanest game).
Even if we include the limited players (Jenkins, Watson, Jones), the Packers salary cap spending on offense is basically 43M, and if we discount those players then we’re somewhere between there an 26M. And it’s not like the numbers are artificially low because we’ve just signed big name players to extensions. This really hammers home the lack of proven, veteran talent on this offense relative to what many other teams in the league are working with.
I find it funny that people would blame (insert QB name) shortcoming on the FO failing to provide them with a good enough WR2-3, and yet at the same time think that Love should be putting up consistent excellent numbers with this level of lack of proven talent.
Now, I dont’ think that Love has been perfect by any means, and he certainly has room to improve. But I dont’ think there’s a single QB in the entire league that you could argue has been able to do more with less around him.