Picking Jordan Love in the first round last year was the Packers’ acknowledgement that, should they ever need an escape hatch from the Aaron Rodgers experience, they would have a cost-effective measure already groomed within the system and ready to go.
It was also, after years of being bombarded, a gentle return serve to try and remind the quarterback of his place on the organizational pecking order. A moment of found confidence as they broke in a new head coach.
People in Green Bay have become accustomed to Rodgers’s willingness to artfully display his unhappiness.