Jun 24, 2024, 9:33 p.m. ET
Rivals now have tape of 19 games from last season, including playoffs, to try to decipher the quarterback’s tendencies
GREEN BAY — Jordan Love He’s not sitting around worrying about how teams will defend him this year, now that they have a full season of tape of him — including two postseason games — to study him.
It’s not that the quarterback of the Green Bay Packers Don’t expect rivals to try to counter what made them so successful last year. Without a doubt, the Philadelphia Eagles, who face Green Bay in Week 1 from Braziland other clubs from the initial portion of the schedule of the Packersthey will study the video of the 19 meetings started in Sees it in the last season.
Actually, Sees it and his coaches have their own plans for where he can take his game in his second year as a starter, and they hope that they will be the counter to what the teams will try to respond to what they saw in the first year.
“We know that going into this year, the teams will have a better idea of what we do, what we did well,” he said. Sees it during the campaign break. “That’s your job, to try to figure out how to stop that. I think that’s the fun part of it.” NFL.
“At the end of the day, we have a very good group of coaches that will put us in the best position, and we will also be able to adjust to what defenses may be doing and taking away from us, and we will learn on the fly.”
This is where the quarterbacks coach comes in, Tom Clementsthe only person who has coached the last three quarterbacks of the Packers: Aaron Rodgers and Brett Favre. Even if he cannot say with certainty what the rivals will prepare to try to stop Sees it, Clements can help by giving you the skills to combat what defenses will try in 2024.
“It’s just more fundamentals stuff,” he noted. Clements. “Footwork and how he moves in the pocket, and we’re working on drills, working on throwing a lot of routes in the air because you can’t have defenders out there right now. It’s just presence in the pocket, when to move, when not to move.” move, things like that.”
Towards that end the head coach Matt LaFleur He added something to offseason practices that he had opposed in the past: a period of 7 against 7. He never liked him because, without the pass rush, he lacks game-like authenticity.
“But, we are putting a major emphasis on perfect feet,” he mentioned. LaFleur. “Making sure guys go through the progressions, having perfect feet, AND, when they don’t, they find out about it. I just think, again, offseason, where we are now, new defense, it’s important for them to understand the rollbacks that we want them to execute, so we implement it.
Although that happened during individual drills and offseason practices, Clements and those in charge of the offensive of the Packers —LaFleurthe offensive coordinator Adam Stenavich and the aerial game coordinator Jason Vrable— spent time anticipating what teams might try to stop Sees it.
“You can anticipate a defense by perhaps applying more pressure, perhaps disguising it a little more, making it difficult for them to see where they should go,” he said. Clements. “So, that’s from a quarterback perspective. If that happens, you have to study a lot of tape and be able to react.
“I mean, that was one of the best attributes of Aaron [Rodgers], being able to process information very quickly and usually make the right decision and get the ball where it needed to go. “That’s something we’ll have to wait to see how defenses handle, but it’s something you have to be ready for.”
When he came under pressure last season, Sees it He completed just 40.6 percent of his passes and averaged just under 4.7 yards per attempt, according to ESPN Stats & Information. Those numbers placed him No. 27 and No. 26, respectively, among quarterbacks in the NFL.
The fact that Sees it enjoyed the fifth-highest average air yards per pass attempt, and ranked 23rd in inaccuracy percentage when pressured, suggests that possibly his instinctive reaction to pressure was to throw long, away from coverage. A good sign, however, was that he threw just one interception when he was pressured, which points to him not taking unnecessary risks under pressure.
“The most important thing for me is just staying composed in the pocket, being able to stay balanced in the pocket,” he explained. Sees it. “Sometimes, I get down on my feet, and I can start drifting too much in the pocket. Just that awareness in the pocket, taking smaller movements and understanding when I need to get out of there.
“Also, throwing on the run, being able to escape the pocket and make those off-script plays, that’s something I’ve worked on a lot. Also, just being comfortable, watching defenses, going back and studying the tape, see the things I could have done differently with identifying protections and the things I wasn’t doing at the beginning and that I was able to start doing later in the campaign, but I think the most important thing for me is mobility within the campaign. pocket, make smaller movements.
Clements He saw some of that towards the end of last season.
“At the beginning of the campaign, when Jordan escaped, I would say that 95 percent of the time he ran the ball,” he shared Clements. “Second half of the year, maybe that flipped; maybe not 95 percent, but a bigger percentage was moving around, looking to throw the ball downfield, which is what you want to do. Because you can get a lot of big plays in the run phase of the game. So instead of just running, he’s looking to make a play, and that’s where good things can happen.
