Would not be a smart move in my opinion. There has been too much time invested in Love to give up on the guy. He’s played one full game, on the road at KC; that is not sufficient playing time to determine any final evaluation. The other thing is what is the backup plan for after AR? Try drafting another QB where the first round pick probably more than likely will be in the end of the round? No team is trading a decent QB, so there really aren’t any options other than roll the dice and hope Love pans out.

I'm pretty sure the Browns 3rd rounder is going to Houston next year. The Packers could always offer something back on top of Love for a 2nd round pick but I don't see the Browns being all that enthralled with giving up more picks for a QB. It seemed to me the better option for them was to trade Mayfield for Garoppolo or simply hang on to Mayfield until the verdict was in and then kiss his ass if you had to. But paying him $10.5 million to play for somebody else is an option too I guess.

"Maybe what Love showed in Kansas City on Nov. 7 last year is how he will handle pressure. He didn’t recognize the pocket melting around him and he began to panic. Or it could also be a case that he was not ready to play that game as he was thrust into the starting role late in the week"

I'm on the side of those who feel we really don't know what the Packers have in Jordan Love. The game-plan against KC was made for Aaron Rodgers and wasn't changed once Rodgers was out. Granted, I would have liked to see Love handle the pressure better and just play a little better overall. BUT, let us remember that start was IN Kansa City, one of the loudest and most difficult places to play. MLF didn't do him any favors with any blitz beaters either. At the end of the evening, Love and the Packers lost to Patrick Mahomes and the Chiefs 13-7. The Packers ST also cost the Packers 8 points with a missed and a blocked FG and a muffed punt. Love wasn't very good by any stretch but he sure in the hell didn't lose that game for GB either.

I'm not going to debate if Gute did or didn't make a mistake. That was 3 drafts ago...LET IT GO! I also highly doubt the Browns are giving up a 2nd or 3rd rounder for Love and frankly I'd rather wait it out and see how he does his preseason. Aaron Rodgers may be under contract until 2026, but I don't think that really means much when it comes to Rodgers. He may walk away any year, ESPECIALLY if they win a SB this year.

Ron Wolfe used to say it's not making a mistake that hurts your team, it's not admitting you made a mistake and moving on from that decision that hurts. Wolfe made a mistake hiring Ray Rhodes, admitted as much and fired him after one season. He took a ton of grief, but he was right to admit his mistake and correct it.

If the Packer FO doesn’t know what they have in Love at this point they should be fired for gross incompetence. I think they know and would trade him tomorrow if they could get a decent offer. Otherwise, they will just let him hang around as a backup until some team gets really desperate or Bill O’Brien gets back in the NFL.

Why would you trade your backup QB, who the GBP have invested three years and a first round draft pick, for a third round pick when this suppose to be a SB or bust year.

If AR get hurts and Gute traded Love for a third round pick and we missed the playoffs everyone would be screaming for Gute's head.

If drafting Love was a mistake, and I'm not sure that it was yet, you don't compound that mistake with another by trading him away for next to nothing.

You missed the main reason why the Browns might be the best candidate for a trade: They are completely bonkers. Other than that, it's hard to see why they would want Love at this point. The fact that they have a lot of talent on their roster probably works against Love because they should be looking for a more experienced QB.

Looking at it from the Packers' point of view, a trade for a second or third round pick would probably be worth it. With Aaron Rodgers likely to stick around for a couple more years, Love may not get a chance to start in Green Bay anyway. I just don't think they could get that high a pick for him. But I don't like the idea of trading him away for a lower pick because there's still a chance he could develop into a good QB, even though he hasn't shown much so far.

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Sorry, but this article makes no sense to me at all. The Packers have a 38/39 year old QB1 who has missed games in recent years due to injury. That same QB1 essentially has a year-to-year contract and has openly mentioned retirement after this year. This is also supposed to be an "all-in" year to get to the Super Bowl. So the Packers are supposed to trade their back up QB (and injury replacement for Rodgers) and first round replacement for QB1 when he retires for maybe a 2nd round draft choice?

Kind of begs the question why, doesn't it? Cory seems to assume Love is a bust (mistake) and should be unloaded. Do the Packers really know that Love is a bust? Remember the Packers didn't really know what they had in Rodgers until his third year. What happens if Love isn't a bust and Rodgers retires after winning a SB this year?

Further, why would the Browns give up a draft choice for a supposed bust (mistake) when they have a veteran backup (Brissett) who has proven he is an adequate backup and sometime starter in the NFL?

This article doesn't make sense to me on a number of levels.

I would think this is just too late for this year to trade Love to anyone. As someone on here said if Rodgers gets hurt what or who do you have to replace him for a short duration or long haul. Love knows the playbook and with some tweets and other changes he can be very serviceable for the season. If you want to jettison him at the end of this season would be the time to do it. Maybe Rodgers had one or two more seasons left in him after this year. The one other thing here is IF Love reads any of this stuff printed and/or speculated about him makes you wonder how his head is still screwed on straight. Give the man a break for a while!

The Packers trade Love for a draft pick or two to some team. The pick up Izzy Schwartz, a veteran QB with a checkered past to back up Rodgers, along with Etling. At the end of the season the ever excitable Aaron Rodgers decides to call it a career.

So the Packers now have Izzy to lead them to the Super Bowl. Or a UFDA. They might hit it lucky and find a starting QB in the draft, probably not, given their draft position and the ridiculous draft compensation it would take to move up. Even then, you don't know what you're getting.

To trade Love now is utterly absurd. He's been in the system to know it in and out. If Rodgers calls it a career, Love would certainly be better than some failed veteran or a UFDA. What do you know, he might even be good. We don't know yet.

To think that you could 'unload' Love on some team is pure, utter nonsense. Give him a chance to earn his money and give him a break.

I’m of the group that thinks this decision ultimately was not the best choice drafting Love. I understand why and I certainly don’t fault the front office for being proactive. It should be extremely telling that Love is not a player the organization will lean on. If he was, there’s no way you let a young controlled asset walk away, when your current qb has openly said he only has two years left. I kind of think what we’ve seen from Love is pretty much what you get. A QB who will throw for the same amount of TDs as INts and complete roughly 62% of his throws. You can compete with a strong roster around him but he probably won’t be the guy. When KC drafted Maholmes it took one year then Alex Smith was gone, he didn’t play in a single game before trading away a solid qb that’s how obvious his talent and abilities were. The fact the team signed Rodgers to an extension should all but express that this lotto ticket didn’t hit big.

If AR gets hurt this year (heaven forbid) Love could be the next Carson Wentz (Sp?). He wouldn't have made it this far if the FO and coaches didn't think he could do it. After we win the Super Bowl we can look back and say I'm glad we did it the "Packer way".

No one's talking about how this article started. How long should Watson be suspended? He already missed all of last year. Does that count? If he did these things, why wasn't he charged? If he did, he should be out of the NFL for good!

Why in the world would we want to trade our first round backup QB that we are developing? Do you think Rodgers is going to play another 10 years?? I don’t get the logic.

If this season is a truly believed 'SB or Bust' season then trading Love is moronic at best, as the best chance would reside in having Love take over if Rodgers misses games this year. There'll be teams in the market for a Love next year, there always are.

Whether Love is extended/traded/non-optioned for 5th year is all predicated on Rodgers, the success of this season, the expected/hoped-for step-up of some, and the hoped-for advanced play of the many rookies, which will weigh heavy in the mind of Rodgers and his decision to stay on or retire.

The FO has to protect itself against a Rodgers retirement decision and to do that they must keep Love until they believe they found another, as trading Love now and having Rodgers retire after this season, would be catastrophic to the Packers going forward for who knows how long with the comfort of winning Division Titles to keep warm will disappear also.

There's much riding on Love, and the FO/HC should do everything possible in this camp to justify whatever decision they make about his future in GB, not to dismiss that Love needs to help make his case to stay relevant in the NFL for trade value if it comes to that.

The Browns have already indicated they are ready to start Jacoby Brisset this season if Watson faces suspension. Why on Earth would they trade for a QB who has less experience? Even if Watson is gone for the year, trading for Love would be an incredibly stupid move. And, yes, it's the Browns, so who knows? But they're already stuck with a QB they have committed unprecedented money and draft picks to attain. And the NFL seems pretty adamant about a minimum of one year's suspension, or possibly longer. Also, if the Packers unload Love, they are going to be desperate for a QB if Rodgers decides to retire next year. All in all, no, no and no. Bad idea. Though it is the "dead time" for the NFL, and time to try to cause some controversy to keep the site alive. So, kudos for doing that.

If the Packers consider trading Love for any reason at all it should only be for a proven player who could actually contribute to an SB run this season. That player should be either an OL who could start or Amari Cooper or another similar veteran player. I would not trade Love for draft picks who could end up contributing nothing to the team.

As for the Browns if they are planning on playing the season without Watson why would they give up any of their starting players for a QB who has only played 6 quarters of regular season football.

This trade/article doesn’t make sense for either team. I don’t see it happening but stranger things have been known to happen. Thanks, Since ‘61

The Browns have already traded away 3/1st round picks, 1/3rd, and 2/4ths. Now the author is suggesting they would be willing to give up a 2nd rounder on top of all the rest of that draft capital for Love, a guy who has played 6 quarters of NFL football? I realize they're the Browns, but geezus, c'mon!

As far as the Packers, why on earth would they trade away their backup QB for a draft pick that won't even be on the team this year? I notice the author didn't offer any suggestions as to who would be OUR backup QB THIS year.

Sorry, but not only no, but HELL no.

Not a fan of Love(Kizer 2.0) but let’s be real. He hasn’t been given a lot of opportunities to really relax and settle down in a game. The KC game was a very tough outing but it’s not like Rodgers, or Favre, have never had a tough outing on the road. Sure their sample size is much larger but on any given day an athletic can play way above or below their capabilities.
The key is to work towards their strengths and avoid putting them in a position of weakness. Us being all in, it would be foolish to trade Love this year. We are one Rodgers injury from having the whole year go down the drain if there is no capable backup.

Corey's back! Love to the Browns, and Janis to TE!

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Trading Love would be galactically stupid. I mean, let's go ahead and run our franchise like Detroit. Let's stagger around in the wilderness looking for a QB and grasping at Cutler and Trubisky and Bilgewater and Cousins. Let's trade away a QB who can take a team to the Super Bowl for a draft pick that we're going to end up wasting anyway.

Green Bay, going back 30 years now to Wolf's arrival, believes in drafting and developing QBs. Chicago believes in drafting and throwing them into the fire. Minnesota likes to trade for QBs. Why on Earth is any Packer fan suggesting that we do business like the less successful franchises do?

I don't think some of you get this, so I'm going to spell it out plainly: Aaron Rodgers played poorly in the playoff loss, not only failing do to anything after the first drive but also leading a pair of deadly three and outs that kept SF alive when even a first down or two would have meant the difference. Now, this year, one of two things is going to happen if we reach the playoffs. One, Rodgers is going to be much improved and we're going to roll,or Two, he won't, in which case I'm pretty sure it's his last game as a Packer.

That would put Love as the starter next summer, after 3 years on the bench, just like Rodgers. A late first round pick that sat and learned behind a HOFer and then had a strong team around him when he took the field. Does that sound like Detroit? Chicago? Minnesota? Or does it sound like an organization that believes you win by drafting and developing QBs, and who realizes the best time to get a QB is when you don't need one.

So, drafting Love was part of a plan. Developing Love was part of a plan. Having a guy ready to take over for Rodgers is part of the plan. Trading away our future starting QB for draft pick is not part of the plan, and it's really a stupid idea, too, IMO.

The Browns have Brissett and Dobbs, and both are more or as proven as Love, and they can probably get Garapalo for the same price. What would they do, when Watson is back on the active next year. This makes no sense. In addition, GB needs to keep Love until they find out what Rodgers is going to do after this season.

There is No show down coming. Love isn't going to bring anything back in a trade. Just last week the Rumor talk was Seatle. You don't get something for Nothing! Wake up! Love will be gone by 2024. If not waived for cap relief.- (Think $$$ not value.)

When Gute made the investment 2 years ago he obviously felt the upside was huge. Trading him now would be foolish. If he doesn't show significant improvement this preseason then maybe start shopping him around. Problem with that is you won't get much, but you won't get much trading him now either. The dice have been thrown there's no pulling them back now.

When Gute made the investment 2 years ago he obviously felt the upside was huge. Trading him now would be foolish. If he doesn't show significant improvement this preseason then maybe start shopping him around. Problem with that is you won't get much, but you won't get much trading him now either. The dice have been thrown there's no pulling them back now.

At this point in time, the opportunity cost or downside to keeping Love is losing what the Packers could get in trade, (maybe a 3rd round pick?) is not very much. While the probability might be be lower, the potential upside to keeping Love is much higher...Drafting Love is like buying a new car...it's value rapidly depreciates the first few years...but by the end of the third year, it's probably worth more keeping rather than selling. Would rather see where we are with Love by the end of this season rather than trading.

You lost me in the very 1st sentence. Sigh.

After reading this article, I sounded a bit like Vince:..."what the hell is going on out there!?!!"

"Maybe what Love showed in Kansas City on Nov. 7 last year is how he will handle pressure. He didn’t recognize the pocket melting around him and he began to panic."

It's almost like you didn't actually watch the game.

Cory, you’re out in left field.

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