Brett Favre Knows Why Jordan Love & Packers Offense Have No Chemistry as QB Admits Thoughts of ‘Quitting’

“If we had the answers, it wouldn’t be a problem,” Head Coach Matt LaFleur said after the Green Bay Packers‘ offense seemed absent towards the end of last season. In back-to-back losses to the Vikings, Bears and the Eagles, the offense simply didn’t show up… and that confused many. After all, they had scored 30 or more points in five straight games before their lull. No wonder the team had a lot of changes to make during their offseason.

And that included understanding where Jordan Love stood in his second year as the starting QB. He was unable to stay healthy early on, got on a hot streak after the bye week and then the trajectory went downwards. But the blame wasn’t solely his to take because the whole offense cooled off after Christmas. But now Brett Favre has a solution for them!

Talking to TMZ Sports, the Hall of Famer said he still believes in the Packers’ young QB. “I have had a lot of people ask me about Green Bay and, in particular, Jordan [Love]. I think Jordan is the guy for that team. I think he can play on a high level, and he has proven that. I think the most important thing with Jordan is to stay healthy, stay on the field, and the chemistry only comes from playing together, sitting in meetings together, and practicing together.

“And so, if he can stay relatively injury-free and they play collectively as a team with a sense of urgency, you know, unlike baseball and basketball, you go three in a row, three losses in a row, that’s probably going to spell doom for you. You can go on a 0-for-five slump in baseball, five games in a row, and no big deal. You’re just in a slump. You can’t afford to do that in the National Football League.”

It looks like the quarterback will need to put in extra efforts to stay healthy and lead his team. Last year, Love injured his knee and groin during the first half of the season, and during the end of the season, his elbow also gave him problems. It was a frustrating season for him as he had to fight through the injuries and go through rehabbing.

In fact, in February, the signal-caller revealed that he was going through a lot mentally and physically. The Week 1 MCL injury was the biggest injury that affected him the most. He missed two games because of that, and though he returned, it affected his mobility. But while Favre’s focus is on building chemistry now, Love’s journey to the top has been a tough one; So tough that there was a time he thought about leaving the sport.

Jordan Love: From nearly walking away to leading the Packers

Before the contract extensions, playoff pushes, and Lambeau cheers, Jordan Love almost quit. It was before his freshman year of high school when his father, who was his biggest supporter, took his own life after struggling with health issues. It left Love devastated. He was just 14… And that fall, when football started, Love didn’t really care about it.

On top of that, the fact that he was undersized at 5-foot-6, 140 pounds, and not even the starting QB as a freshman, made him feel he was a nobody. Frustrated, he told his mom he wanted to quit. She didn’t give a pep talk; she gave a deadline: one more year. Love agreed, played JV as a sophomore, and made football less about glory and more about a few hours to forget everything else. By his junior year, he’d grown, earned a varsity spot, and discovered he didn’t just like football again… he loved it!

That led to Utah State, an NFL draft call, and eventually the patience to sit three years behind Aaron Rodgers. And Love reflected on that in his Players’ Tribune column, ‘None of This Was Supposed to Happen’, which he wrote last week. “Without that brotherhood of football, I never would have made it,” he wrote. He credited his mom, his teammates, and his coaches for pulling him through. He even recalled his first NFL start against Kansas City. Love described the first half as getting “punched in the mouth”.

But he refused to lose hope because his mom was in the stands watching.