Brett Favre offers encouragement to Jordan Love after Green Bay QB tossed two crucial picks in season-ending loss to San Francisco: ‘I believe you can be the best Packer quarterback yet’

Not only is Packers legend Brett Favre impressed with Jordan Love, but he also believes the 25-year-old can surpass himself, Bart Starr and Aaron Rodgers and become the greatest quarterback in Green Bay history.

Favre shared a message with Love on

“Great game and tough loss for my Packers,” Favre wrote on has in store.’ There’s a lot to be excited about.”

Favre then gave Love some encouragement: “Jordan, shut up, because I believe you can be the best Packer QB yet.”

Although considered one of the greatest quarterbacks in NFL history, the Super Bowl-winning Favre has faced a tidal wave of negative publicity after being involved in a social scam in his native Mississippi. Favre has not been charged in the case and has repaid $1.1 million he received for speaking fees from a nonprofit that misspent welfare money. State Auditor Shad says he still owes $228,000 in interest.

Favre has faced a flood of negative publicity after being involved in a social scam

Favre shared a post on X after the Packers’ 24-21 loss to the San Francisco 49ers

Although everything went well in Love’s first season as the starting quarterback for the Green Bay Packers, the ending proved disappointing.

Love threw his second interception of the game, with Green Bay trying to mount a late-game drive to extend the season, and the Packers blew a fourth-quarter lead, falling 24–21 to the San Francisco 49ers in the divisional round on Saturday evening. .

“I think it’s going to sting for a while,” Love said. “When I look at all the upcoming games, it will sting knowing we had a chance to win and we dropped the ball on it. It will sting for a while, but we can look back on it and see that we did good things.”

Love has accomplished a lot in his first season in Rodgers’ place. He helped the Packers (10-9) overcome a 2-5 start to the season to make the playoffs. He followed that up with a three-touchdown performance in a wild-card win at Dallas last week and had Green Bay in position to knock off the top-seeded 49ers.

Green Bay Packers quarterback Jordan Love (10) is knocked out of bounds

Love threw TD passes on back-to-back drives to open the second half and put the Packers ahead. He threw a 19-yarder to Bo Melton to make it 13-7 and then added a 2-yarder to Tyler Kraft and a 2-point conversion to Aaron Jones to put Green Bay up 21-14 midway through the third quarter. to get ahead.

That gave Love 23 touchdown passes and just one interception in just over nine games, but his streak of protecting the ball ended at the worst possible time.

He threw his first interception since December 11 to set up a 49ers field goal and then went three and out on the next drive.

A long run by Aaron Jones put Green Bay in scoring position, but the Packers stalled and rookie Anders Carlson missed a 41-yard field goal – his twelfth missed kick in the past twelve games.

Green Bay’s defense then allowed the Niners to drive for the go-ahead goal with 1:07 remaining, and Love was unable to lead the comeback, ending any chance with his second interception.

“The play broke down, scrambled to the right, saw Christian (Watson) over the middle and tried to force one to him,” Love said. ‘I thought I could make the play, but I didn’t see the back end. They played great.’

Love showed in abundance this season and gives the Packers confidence that he can be a worthy successor to Favre and Rodgers.

Jordan Love throws a pass to Aaron Jones during Saturday’s 24-21 loss at Santa Clara

After spending his first three seasons as Rodgers’ backup, Love threw for 4,159 yards and 32 touchdowns this season thanks to his strong second half of the season.

“I think he had an excellent season,” coach Matt LaFleur said. “I know it didn’t end the way we wanted it to. I couldn’t be more proud of who he is as a man, first and foremost as the leader of this team. I know this one is going to hurt him. I’m sure he’ll be very hard on himself. He just has to use it as fuel to keep getting better.”

Although Love’s mistakes ultimately proved costly, the Packers were in trouble. There were two dropped would-be interceptions, four drives that came inside San Francisco’s 25 that yielded just six points, Carlson’s missed field goal and the defense allowing the late score.

It marked the 13th straight season without a Super Bowl appearance for the Packers.

“I felt like we had plenty of opportunities to put the game out of reach, but unfortunately just didn’t do enough,” LaFluer said. “It’s never one play. I’m sure a lot of it will come down to the missed field goal, but there were plenty of opportunities. Go back to the first half and get three chances in the red zone and have six points. There were a lot of plays there. If one game goes differently, we’ll probably have a different outcome at this point.”