I am in the same boat as most Packers fans when I say that right now our best option is to go with Love and and get him signed to a contract. Yes we are gambling that a QB that had one good year and some might argue that it was only a half year is worthy of a contract. Here are the options.

Sign him to a 4 or 5 year contract and you have that position filled for that time with the opportunity to sign him to another contract. Years of hopefully good QB pay.

Start the season without a contract and get him signed after he has shown that he can play. This is the safe thing to do but does not prove anything as he still might not be a championship QB. Plus you end up making him upset and you have little chance of signing him because he might decide to go to another team after the season. Oh you say we can franchise him next year. Now that would really make him mad and you will never be able to sign him. And then we are looking at looking for a new QB. This causes instability in the team and the leadership.

I say we go all in and get him signed before the start of training camp. If management is willing to gamble and take chances that shows the players they should do the same. You are either all in and anything less is not going to win a championship. Also signing him to a contract will provide the continuity and chemistry to the team as the leader is going to be here for awhile.

Sign Love to a contract, build a team around him to make him successful, and coaches develop the team and provide the best plays for Love and this team to succeed. You got to do something.

That was a trip down memory lane, Ken. Thanks.

Love will be signed by the start of camp. Any other option is more expensive and will have long lasting ramifications far outweighing anything else.

Build a successful D get the O-line at the top of performance and Love's place in Packer passing history will fall into place without his seeming to have to try.

God forbid, what if he regresses?

I have watched the Packers from the Bart Starr era through current times and I was still surprised at the difference in per game passing yardage between Rodgers and Starr. Starr threw for less than half the yardage per game that Rodgers threw. Different era and some very different rules for the passing game - being able to chuck receivers almost all over the field as long as the ball wasn't in the air made timing routes a flight of fantasy in the Starr era. Between different rules and Lombardi's mindset to run the ball (the Packer sweep was a thing of beauty), the passing offense was very different than today.

The quarterback wasn't the most important player on the field back then, but he is today. Sign Love.

You left out the most important stat: championships. Starr is head and shoulders above the rest, with five, including the first two Super Bowls. And if the merger between the two leagues would have happened a year earlier, the Packers would be the only team to have won three in a row. But this is just "old guy" speculation. Besides, what made Starr so good was his decision making, play calling, and ability to turn third and short into nightmares for opposing teams. It was Starr's decision to try the iconic quarterback sneak against Dallas in the Ice Bowl, with Lombardi allegedly telling him, "Fine. Let's win the game and get the hell out of here." It did win the game, though Dallas did get the ball back, and "Dandy Don" Meredith threw some long passes, all of them incomplete.

It’s just hard on the FO to be 100% sure to lock in on a HUGE contract off of 10 awesome games. Has there ever been a young QB that had a big year, got the big contract and then become a bust? Blake Bortles was rewarded with a 2018 big contract for those times $26.5 million guaranteed on a three year $54 million, largest cash payment $20 million, largest cap hit $10 million at the time.

So the easy thing to do is just pay him with no conscience after all it’s not my money. But you can’t have discussions with the agent and not address how things looked after 7 games.

That said, there’s no chance he’s not locked up and he wants out. Captain Obvious says it’s just for what $ and how long.

Wow, statistical inflation is really a thing, isn't it? Love is already 11th in yards and 9th in TD passes in franchise history. It speaks to the lack of sustained success for any Packer QB outside of the big three, but you know, Love really did have a darn good season. Lots of people think that the first half of the season was crap for him, but it wasn't that bad. He was not very efficient by modern standards, but that was totally expected as a first year QB surrounded by young players. He was quite productive all season long. He was not afraid to sling it, which is exactly what he needed to do. On-the-job training.

As the season progressed, and particularly in the second half of the season, I saw over and over again that when Love has enough time, he can get the ball downfield to open guys. He's also very good at those tiny window darts you need to throw around the endzone.

If the Packers protect Love,and give him time to do his job, we'll score points. Love will protect the ball and run the offense.

Because of Love’s coyness on the contract subject at his locker room interview last month, it has me thinking the contract is a done deal, and they’re holding the news for the shareholders meeting.

Your rankings are a little different from mine. My rankings start with Bart, because of those 5 rings and the Super Bowl MVPs. And by an extension of that, Love can enter the same realm as Rodgers and Favre by just winning one ring. Rodgers and Favre haven't set the bar very high in that regard, although they've had considerable individual success.

I keep seeing a window of two years without contract issues, and then another couple, and then Love will be 30 and he'll either have won a Super Bowl or not. His new contract will kick in and we'll probably be paying an unholy amount to keep him or we could start over with another guy we've been preparing.

I'd like to see him surpass Rodgers and Favre. I'd like to see another couple of trophies, and the window is right now.

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