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Green Bay Packers quarterback Jordan Love has 15 touchdown passes and eight interceptions this season. \/ Mark Hoffman\/Milwaukee Journal Sentinel via the USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin-Imagn Images<\/p>\n
GREEN BAY, Wis. \u2013 The quarterback gets too much credit when the team wins and too much blame when it loses. It takes all 11. You\u2019ve heard the cliches, but the Green Bay Packers\u2019 hopes against the Jacksonville Jaguars on Sunday will hinge on the play of Jordan Love.<\/p>\n
Love has made a bunch of plays. He is tied for second in the NFL with 15 touchdown passes but first in touchdown percentage. He\u2019s also tied for last in the NFL with eight interceptions and is fourth-to-last in interception percentage.<\/p>\n
Love\u2019s aggressive play needs to be toned down a bit, like he did down the stretch last year, but Jaguars coach Doug Pederson appreciates Love\u2019s mentality.<\/p>\n
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\u201cI love that attitude, quite frankly, from your quarterback,\u201d Pederson told reporters in Jacksonville on Friday. \u201cWe do the same thing with our guy, with Trevor (Lawrence). We encourage him to test it and to see, especially during the week of preparation and week of practice, see what you can get away with as a throw.\u201d<\/p>\n
Before becoming a Super Bowl-winning coach with the Philadelphia Eagles, Pederson was an NFL quarterback for 10 seasons. For seven of those seasons, he was Brett Favre\u2019s backup in Green Bay. Favre, of course, pushed the envelope perhaps more than any quarterback in the modern era.<\/p>\n
\u201cI played with a guy that cut it loose quite a bit. Obviously, Jordan sat behind a guy that did the same thing for a little while (with Aaron Rodgers),\u201d Pederson continued. \u201cSo, if you’re a defensive guy, I think you have to read into it that every throw in the book is open and available. You have to be prepared, you\u2019ve got to be in the right spot, you\u2019ve got to be disciplined.<\/p>\n
\u201cIs he going to make a mistake from time to time? He will. That’s just the aggressive nature of how he plays, and that’s OK because they’ve been able to overcome that. But you\u2019ve just got to stay disciplined as a defense and trust your instinct and be prepared.\u201d<\/p>\n
Jacksonville\u2019s pass defense is terrible. The Jaguars aren\u2019t just last in the NFL in opponent passer rating this season, this would be the second-worst opponent passer rating in NFL history. They are last in the league in touchdown passes allowed (16) and interceptions (one), which is quite a combination.<\/p>\n
Because of Love\u2019s aggressive nature, Green Bay is second with 25 completions of 20-plus yards. Jacksonville is second-to-last with 30 completions of 20-plus yards allowed.<\/p>\n
The Jaguars have a good quarterback with Lawrence and a tremendous group of pass-catchers with Brian Thomas Jr., Christian Kirk and tight end Evan Engram. Running back Tank Bigsby is having an incredible season. The run defense is solid.<\/p>\n
The Packers are going to have to score points, and they\u2019re going to have to score points through the air. It will be up to Love to make the plays necessary to win the game while avoiding the mistakes that could lose it.<\/p>\n
Of course, it will take all 11. The offensive line, which held up well against Houston\u2019s powerful front last week, must deal with defensive ends Travon Walker (six sacks this year) and Josh Hines-Allen (17.5 sacks last year).<\/p>\n
And the receivers must do their thing. Only the Saints have given up more yards after the catch than the Jaguars.<\/p>\n
But it will start with Love. Last year, he had 10 interceptions through nine games but finished with 18 touchdowns and one interception in the final eight games. So, Love has the track record to work his way through the mistakes.<\/p>\n
\u201cOne interception is too many,\u201d offensive coordinator Adam Stenavich said. \u201cAnytime you\u2019re giving the ball to the defense, that\u2019s not good, that\u2019s not a winning formula. We\u2019ve been able to overcome them, especially last game, but, yeah, you never want to turn the ball over.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo, we\u2019ve just got to learn from those mistakes, learn from those decisions and just keep improving. The one thing I do like that Jordan\u2019s doing is he\u2019s not letting those plays turn into more bad plays, in terms of just affecting his decision-making. He\u2019s still aggressive, he\u2019s still reading defenses and doing a good job there, and he\u2019s making some pretty impressive throws. We\u2019ve just got to keep learning and keep improving every week and, hopefully, those mistakes go away.\u201d<\/p>\n
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