Sometimes, it is easy to spot a trend. A trend that could be happening in real-time. Green Bay Packers lost on Sunday for the first time all year. It was a bad loss. No doubt about it. One of Aaron Rodgers’ worst games of his career. Therefore, people, more specifically one writer, ran to the Jordan Love story. Rob Reischel of Forbes believed this is the reason that the Packers drafted Love. It’s one loss, one bad quarter honestly, and Reischel is ready to move from Rodgers like that. This will not be the only time we see this type of nonsense.

The idea that every bad Rodgers means the Packers a step closer to Love could not be farther from the truth. It is one game. People have bad games. We have bad days in the office or at our home office. It happens to literally everyone in society. No one is perfect. Now if this ends up being the version of Rodgers for the season versus the guy we saw for the first four weeks, Reischel’s point is accurate. But we’re not there yet. Packers are 31% through their schedule, and only once has the quarterback looked below his standards.

With Rodgers, he is a weird mix of treated with kids’ gloves and treated unfairly. People, including me at times if we’re being honest, have a hard time criticizing him for having a bad day, and not being his best. Make no mistake about it, this is an easy game to point to and say he didn’t play well. But at the same time, people expect him to be this MVP caliber quarterback every time out. He is that most of the time, but there are games where he completely sucks. This doesn’t mean that this is the reason Love got drafted. It’s one game! This doesn’t decide a season.

Reischel will not be the only one with a Love take this year. Sadly, this will be a lazy way for others to get attention. Whether it’s the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel or Mike Florio, they will exploit the idea of drafting Love after a bad loss. It is very annoying, but the price you pay for having a stellar quarterback plus a first-round backup.

Charlie.