With Week 2 featuring the Green Bay Packers beating the New York Jets in overtime, 20-17, there could be some sentiment that the team is in an underwhelming spot to start the season. As one could see the Packers as broken to start the season, especially in the running game without Josh Jacobs, quarterback Jordan Love explains how the rushing attack is fixable.
While Jacobs is still on the commissioner's exempt list and still awaiting a suspension, Green Bay's running backs have consisted of MarShawn Lloyd, Kaleb Johnson, and Chris Brooks. The team would run for 66 yards in the opening 39-22 loss to the Minnesota Vikings and 63 yards in the win over New York. Love expressed Tuesday that it will be a full-team adjustment to fix that aspect.
“In the run game, it's all about us identifying who we're blocking in the run game, being on the same page,” Love said, according to Ryan Wood. “And then when the backs get the ball, trusting their aiming points, what their read is on the run game, so it takes everybody really being on the same page and doing their job. There's too many times during the game where we've got some unblocked guys, or we're just not taking the right reads.”
Jordan Love continues on Packers' running game
Love continued on the production on the ground, saying that “it's all fixable,” even going as far as to say that the Packers haven't displayed a “terrible running game.” Even saying that missing Jacobs “sucks,” he has “confidence” in the available players.
“It's all stuff we can clean up and get better at, so I think that's the mindset,” Love said. “I think it's just us going out and executing and doing our job, and I think we'll be better. Not having Josh out there, we know that…It sucks, but I've got confidence in those guys. But I think there's a lot of stuff we can clean up and have some better runs.”
At any rate, Green Bay looks to improve in Week 3's contest against the Atlanta Falcons on Thursday night.