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Demovsky reports that Love likes to be in the loop on developments, so there is reason to think progress has been made on an extension. Love was asked if he thinks contract talks will pick up after minicamp and he responded, “Yeah, I think they should.” Last week, Packers general manager Brian Gutekunst told Milwaukee radio station 97.3 The Game that both parties wanted to get a deal done “before training camp for sure”. After leading the Packers to a divisional round game, Love is now poised to earn an extension that puts him amongst the highest-paid in the game. Without an extension, he would make $11 million in 2024, but seeing extensions like Jared Goff’s $53 million per year, Love is poised to reach those numbers soon.

Packers head coach Matt LaFleur said in March that Watson — who missed eight games in 2023 — was working with a “special lab” to figure out why he has sustained so many soft tissue injuries. Testing at the University of Wisconsin’s School of Medicine and Public Health showed Watson had a 20 percent muscle mass difference between his right and left leg. That difference has since been reduced to 8-10 percent. “For me, it really was the asymmetry between the legs,” Watson said this week after an OTA session. “It comes from a lot of things. Obviously, the issues I’ve had in the past with hamstrings, not fully recovering from those strength-wise. I’ve been attacking the strength side of it, trying to get that symmetry back and it’s been huge for me. I feel really, really good. I gotta continue grinding at it.” Green Bay coaches said Watson, 24, showed up to OTAs in great shape. ESPN’s Rob Demovsky said Watson “moved in and out of his breaks with explosiveness and without hesitation” during OTA practices. Jordan Love said a fully healthy Watson would bring a dangerous downfield element to Green Bay’s passing attack in 2024. Thirty percent of his 2023 targets came more than 20 yards downfield.

The league appears very much willing to feature Jordan Love as a main attraction in 2024 after his outstanding 2023 campaign in which Love established himself as the latest in a line of long-term Green Bay QBs. The Packers will open the season against the Eagles in Brazil. Love and the Packers will take on Tua Tagovailoa in a primetime matchup on Thanksgiving night — a game that will feature plenty of offensive firepower on both sides.

It will be the first-ever NFL game in Brazil, played on Friday night of the regular season’s opening week. The game will see two of the league’s young star QBs — Jalen Hurts and Jordan Love — square off in what could be an exciting offensive showdown. Love is coming off a fantastic 2023 campaign in which he showed the Packers he can be the team’s long-term answer at quarterback. Love and the Green Bay offense will be a good test for an Eagles defense that was among the NFL’s worst in 2023.

The NFL will hold its first-ever game in Brazil on Friday of Week 1 as the league looks to branch out internationally. The Eagles have already been announced as one of the two teams that will kick off their 2024 season in Brazil. The opening week matchup will be a good chance for Jordan Love — who shredded defenses in the second half of the 2023 season — to show out before a massive audience. Love, 25, is expected to sign a contract extension this offseason after proving himself as a long-term franchise quarterback last year.

Love is under contract through next season, but Gutekunst said the team would “go down that road” when asked about the possibility of a long-term extension for the 25-year-old signal caller. Love threw for 4159-32-11 in the regular season and lit up the Cowboys for 272 yards and three touchdowns in the NFC Wild Card round. The former first-round pick has only been at the helm for one season, but the Packers appear ready to name him as the franchise quarterback for the foreseeable future.

Love made several impressive throws on the night, tossing touchdowns from two and 19 yards out, as the Packers held the lead for much of the second half. Unfortunately, a late drive by the 49ers to put them up by a field goal could not be countered by Love, who threw his second interception on the night to Dre Greenlaw to seal the game. The Packers are heading home but have a lot to build on. Several question marks about Love’s game were discussed through training camp and through the regular season, but the fourth-year signal-caller threw for 4,159-32-11 in his first season as Green Bay’s starter and had them within a few plays of an NFC Championship game. Despite a disappointing outcome for the Packers in this one, their future is bright as long as Love is under center.

Love became the first quarterback to post a perfect QB rating in his first postseason start. In a beautifully called game by Matt LaFleur, Love torched the volatile Cowboys secondary for chunk gains throughout the first half, often from heavy formations. Love connected with a wide-open Romeo Doubs several times before the game got out of hand — once for a touchdown — and hit Luke Musgrave and Dontayvion Wicks for scores. Again and again, Love delivered off-platform throws against the vaunted Dallas pass rush. He was pulled with five minutes to go in the fourth quarter. Having hit his stride as a passer and a decision maker, Love will be a frightening matchup for whoever Green Bay takes on in the Divisional Round.

With the Packers’ win over the Bears, they are now in the playoffs with Love at the helm. Love had a surgical game with just five incompletions while tossing a pair of touchdowns to Dontayvion Wicks, one in each half. His lone blunder came on a third-quarter fumble, while clock management issues fizzled out a drive at the end of the first half. Love finishes the regular season crossing 4,000 yards passing with 32 passing touchdowns. The Packers are one of the NFL’s youngest offenses heading into the postseason and will look to make noise come Wild Card Weekend.

The Packers now control their own playoff destiny with the clutch Week 17 win, needing a win against the Bears at Lambeau in Week 18 to secure the seven-seed out of the NFC. That would set up a likely matchup with the Cowboys on the road in the Super Wildcard Round in two weeks. Love was on point from the jump in this one, delivering dime after dime to a supporting cast ravaged by injuries. He tossed two first half touchdowns to rookie slot man Jayden Reed in addition to a rushing score prior to the break. He would add the final touchdown of the game on a third quarter basket pass off his back foot to Bo Melton, who saw additional run in the second half after Jayden Reed departed with a chest injury. Love and the Packers seem to be firing on all cylinders ahead of their win-or-go-home meeting with the Bears.