Jordan Love’s unstoppable performance revealed the shocking flaw that has haunted the Packers’ offense all season.QQ
Coming off a pair of ugly losses to the Carolina Panthers and Philadelphia Eagles in which their offense scored a combined 20 points, the Green Bay Packers got back on track on Sunday with a much-needed 27-20 victory over the New York Giants. And they have Jordan Love to thank.
Now, if one were to only look at the box score, it would seem that Love had an average outing, as he connected on just 13 of 24 passes, making for a season-low 54.2 completion percentage, for a season-low 174 yards with two touchdowns. But anybody who actually watched the game knows he played far better than what those numbers indicate, as he dealt with plenty of pressure from the Giants’ defensive line and watched his receiving corps have a difficult time hanging on to the football.
While only four of Love’s incompletions were officially deemed drops—two from Romeo Doubs and one each from Dontayvion Wicks and Luke Musgrave—a closer look at the film reveals there should’ve been about double that amount. And that doesn’t even include a drop that was negated by a penalty.
This is the beauty of PFF, as the fine folks at that organization take these types of things into account, which is why Love earned a 93.1 overall grade for his performance against New York, marking the highest grade of any quarterback in Week 11 (not including Monday night’s matchup between the Cowboys and Raiders) and Love’s best mark of this entire season.
Taking the drops into account, as well as a batted ball and a pair of throws Love made while being hit, his adjusted completion percentage actually came out to 85.0, with his average target depth coming out to 13.6 yards, which is also the highest mark among all QBs in Week 11.
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All in all, Love, whose performance looks even better, seeing as he exited the game for a short time with a shoulder injury, was credited with three big-time throws and zero turnover-worthy plays, with the three big-time passes all coming on tosses that flew more than 20 yards in the air, including what turned out to the game-winning touchdown pass to Christian Watson in the fourth quarter, which was technically ruled a 17-yarder but was thrown from the 25-yard line into the back corner of the end zone.
