I've been listening to what's been said about the OTAs in the media. It seems different this year in GB. It's as if there's an urgency on the part of a lot of players to prove that they deserve to be recognized for their talent, not everything hidden behind the soap opera that surrounded Rodgers.
Reading comments made by players, and by those watching them perform, I come away with a sense that this team may not be "better" on the field at this point than they were with Rodgers, but their more focused on being a team than they were, when Rodgers was the whole show. That alone would turn this into a successful year, even if they win 7 or less games. They need to become a team, and focus on the prizes teams win, not individual accolades.
I'm not going to anoint Love as anything other than "The new Packer QB." Until he proves himself, or fails, he's neither. He needs time to develop his game, and those around him need time to adjust to it. In the meanwhile, we shouldn't be jumping on any bandwagons of how he's the next best thing since sliced bread, or that he's a failure. It's going to take time, to see where he falls in the hierarchy.
To me, watching games this year will be more clinical, because it's time to dissect exactly which moves the front office made were good, and bad, of course realizing that they've choked themselves severely with their dead cap money. This is where Sherman was, and it took a couple of years to get rid of it, when he was jettisoned.
