GREEN BAY — There was, as you would expect, a difference of opinion about what had happened on the play.
It occurred midway through last week, during the Green Bay Packers’ second in-pads practice of training camp. Defensive end Lukas Van Ness had beaten his man off the edge and was closing in fast on quarterback Jordan Love, who was looking for tight end Tucker Kraft on a corner route to the left.
This is where the details get murky — or, more accurately, it depends on who you talk to.
Love — feeling healthier than he ever was last year after sustaining a knee injury in the closing moments of the team’s season-opening loss to the eventual Super Bowl-champion Philadelphia Eagles in São Paulo, Brazil — saw Van Ness coming and, rather than taking off running, moved up in the pocket, sidestepped to his right and sidearmed the ball to rookie Matthew Golden crossing the field to the right sideline.