The run gameĮven if Aaron Rodgers was under center, I imagine that the run game was going to be a big part of the game plan for the Green Bay Packers. The Packers will do the same on Sunday with Love. Sean McVay and Kyle Shanahan, who have similar offenses to LaFleur, went to Super Bowls with Jared Goff and Jimmy Garaopolo by playing within the system and relying on other key players. In this offense, Love does not have to be great for the Green Bay Packers to win–he needs to play well like any quarterback, but not great. You just try to draw on those past experiences that he’s had, whether it’s during OTAs or training camp or in the preseason games, to get a feel for what he’s most comfortable with, because you want a guy that’s going to go out there and be confident in what he’s doing. I do think that the offseason provided him a good opportunity to experience some of these plays for the first time. “And there’s been a lot of communication. “I think we have a pretty good idea of where he is right now and the things he’s comfortable with,” head coach Matt LaFleur said via The Athletic. As a result, this does give the quarterback easier reads and completion opportunities. This Matt LaFleur offense is designed to scheme players open, and it does make life easier on the quarterback–this is one of the reasons we’ve seen a resurgence from Aaron Rodgers the last few seasons.īy leaning on the run game to set up play-action, the pre-snap motion, along with running similar plays from a variety of formations, all helps LaFleur achieve that “illusion of complexity,” as he calls it, and keeps the defense off-balance.

If Love is going to be successful, these will be two reasons why. I don’t want him to think he needs to force something down the field.”įor the most part, during the preseason, Love functioned well in these two areas, but of course, making your first NFL regular-season start on the road and in a hostile environment is a different story. So if defense is taking something away, we need to progress.

“If his eyes and his feet tell him to move in his progression, I want him to move in his progression. “The main goal for me right now is that he just progresses properly, that he plays with his eyes and his feet,” said Getsy via over the summer. When a quarterback panics, we will often see their eyes drop as they look to escape the pocket from any incoming pressure. When it comes to going through his progressions, we want Love to move from one target to the next if his initial reads aren’t open. In the pocket, we want to see Love have good balance, that his feet are constantly in motion, and that his feet also move with his eyes.

Footwork is one of the key fundamentals at the quarterback position.

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