Jordan Love has now spoken on the hot topic surrounding the Green Bay Packers at Super Bowl week.
And the Packers’ quarterback, not surprisingly, has taken a bit more of a measured approach than running back Josh Jacobs when discussing the team’s wide receiver room. He’s not out here calling for the team to get a No. 1 wide receiver like Jacobs did.
But Love also wouldn’t deny veteran help if the situation presented itself. He hears you Davante Adams.
Love addressed the Packers’ wide receivers, the team’s “inconsistent” year, the NFL draft in Green Bay and more during his chat with Kay Adams on the “Up & Adams Show” Friday from New Orleans.
Here are five takeaways on Love’s appearance.
Jordan Love on Packers wide receivers
Coming into the 2024 season, Love was confident in his wide receivers and wasn’t fretting over not having a bona-fide “No. 1” wide receiver. He felt all of his wide receivers could continue to raise their levels as the youngest team in the NFL grew together on the offensive side.
But that didn’t happen as drops and inconsistency plagued the group.
Love is still confident in the Packers’ roster, however.
“It works,” Love said. “We have a great group. Definitely areas to focus on to get better, to improve upon, to get over the hump, focus on the details. I love those guys.”
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And he’ll continue to go to bat for them.
“If we keep growing and building this together we can do special things,” Love said. “No one has reached our full potential.”
Do the Packers need a veteran wide receiver?
But Love is aware that a veteran presence could pay dividends.
“Definitely, definitely,” Love said.
“I’ve been saying when you add good players to a good team I think good things will happen,” Love said.
He cited the major offseason acquisitions the Packers made last season in adding running back Josh Jacobs and safety Xavier McKinney, two of the team’s three Pro Bowl players. “I love adding pieces,” Love said, but “it’s got to be the right guys, right fit for our team.”
And regardless if Packers general manager Brian Gutekunst adds a new wide receiver to the mix, Love knows it’s on him to take this team to the next level.
“We’ve got to find a way,” Love said. “Faces change, new draft class coming in, you got to find ways with the guys you have in that building, come together and jell to do some great things. I love (our wide receiver) group. They do some phenomenal things. If we add a guy, we do.”
Jordan Love on Davante Adams
Could this guy be Davante Adams?
He wouldn’t mind that.
“Davante, that’s my guy,” Love said. “I know exactly what type of player he is. Phenomenal guy. Just a great guy.”
Davante Adams is a regular guest on “Up & Adams” and said he’s open to a return to the Packers.
And he’s almost gone out of his way to credit Love and the Packers organization over the last year.
Love knows what a player like Adams, a three-time All-Pro and six-time Pro Bowler, would bring to the Packers.
“The playmaking ability that he has,” Love said. “He’s just a phenomenal receiver, creates so much separation off the line. That’s his game. Killing guys off the line and making crazy catches.”
Jordan Love on offseason chatter among teammates
In the aftermath of Jacobs’ comments that the Packers need a No. 1 wide receiver, WR Dontayvion Wicks had an immediate reaction on social media.
He used several laughing emojis and a thumbs down to express his feelings.
Love was asked about all of that on Friday. He certainly wasn’t about to add to the drama — if there actually is any.
“It’s tough now when everybody’s in separate spaces,” Love said. “We’ll get back together and we’ll be great. Things happen in the offseason. So much talk and rumors. We’ll see who we got when get back in OTAs.
“Great group, we all love each other. Great team chemistry.”
Jordan Love on Packers 2024 season
This great chemistry, however, didn’t lead to a Super Bowl championship or even a deep playoff run.
So, how would Love characterize the season, one in which the Packers made the playoffs for the second straight year, but lost in a wild-card game and went 0-6 against the top teams in the NFC.
“Fell short of those goals and expectations,” Love said. “Inconsistent year.”
Love’s own injuries and regressions as well as from the wide receivers played a part in that.
Still, Love called the season a “year of growth.”
He acknowledged that facing this “adversity” made things more difficult. But he wasn’t using that as an excuse.
Love injured his MCL in the season opener and went on to miss the next two games, but returned quicker than many thought. His mobility, however, was limited and then he suffered a groin injury not long after.
It all contributed to a season of “highs and lows” for Love after he signed a record-setting contract last July.
“Rocky season that I learned a lot of lessons,” Love said.