Jordan Love shocks fans with relentless grit as the Packers snatch a stunning late-game win.QQ

Can this somehow springboard the team?

EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. – Jordan Love said it himself, the offense “scored the right amount of points” on Sunday.

The number was 27 in the seven-point victory over the Giants, the fifth time in six wins this season the Packers have scored exactly that many.

“That’s a crazy stat when you look at it,” Love said. “But like I said, I guess that’s the right number.”

That was about the only thing that felt normal about this game, though.

From the usually sure-handed Romeo Doubs leading a drop parade by the receiving corps, to one of the biggest plays of the game being made by a rookie who got off the bus at MetLife Stadium with a walking boot on his injured foot, this was a little bonkers.

First, regarding the drops, it was all Love could do to still finish with a triple-digit passer rating (105.2 on 13-of-24 for 174 yards and two TDs) when more than half his incompletions were in his receivers’ hands.

True to form, though, Love never got rattled, even after leaving the game for a series with a left shoulder injury that needed evaluation.

“It’s obviously frustrating but it’s a team sport,” Love said of the drops, which was a season-long problem for the offense in 2024 but hadn’t been this year until these last two games. “It takes everybody out there making plays. I’m confident in these guys.”

He simply kept telling them “next play.”

“I might throw an interception and I have to have the same mindset,” he said. “Flush it and move on and go make the next one.”

Then there’s making your only one, which rookie Savion Williams did on a crucial third-and-10 midway through the fourth quarter with the Packers trailing by a point.

On the injury report for multiple weeks due to a foot/ankle issue, Williams shed the walking boot, went out to return kickoffs, and then hauled in a 33-yard heave to keep alive what turned into the game-winning drive.

“It’s not every day you see your starting returner in a walking boot and expect him to go play a game,” said Head Coach Matt LaFleur, who first saw Williams with the boot at breakfast at the hotel. “He’s safe from a medical standpoint, but it’s just a pain tolerance issue. I would say he’s got a pretty high tolerance.

“He’s as tough as they come.”

The receiving corps also was without Malik Heath, who did not travel with the team due to a “coach’s decision,” which LaFleur did not elaborate on, though he expects Heath to be back in the facility with the team Monday.

It all added up to a pile of adversity at a time the offense hadn’t exactly been humming in scoring just 20 total points over a two-game losing streak.

But give credit where it’s due, and that’s to Love, as well as backup Malik Willis, who subbed in for seven plays with Love getting his shoulder checked out and got the offense into the end zone.

There was no flinch in the Packers’ quarterbacks, least of all Love, who did not look as though he was injured at all as he made several clutch throws with the game in the balance.

“It was so gritty and tough,” LaFleur said of Love’s performance. “He was under duress it felt like quite a bit. He did a really nice job giving guys opportunities to make plays.

“Certainly had a lot of drops had to overcome, but just the mentality, … when your quarterback is in the locker room, that’s not a great feeling. His ability to come back and play the way he did, I was really proud of him.”

Likewise, Love was proud of his team, as ugly as it looked at times. No matter how things unfold, he never loses faith in his teammates or himself, and that was rewarded with a hard-fought if exasperating victory.

“It’s exactly what we needed,” Love said. “We came in with the mindset whatever it takes, just find a way to go get a win.

“It’s never going to be pretty, man. It’s the NFL. We stayed together and guys just found ways to keep making plays all the way to the fourth quarter. It’s something that I think is going to help us, propel us into next week.”