Five-time Pro Bowl wide receiver Jarvis Landry did not wait long after the Green Bay Packers’ home opener to question whether Jordan Love and the Packers are still aligned.
A day after a 35-14 loss to an Atlanta team that had arrived at Lambeau Field 0-2, Landry told Kay Adams on “Up and Adams” that what he is seeing from the Packers quarterback this season is not working.
“They [the Packers] are bad. … What’s going on with Jordan Love and Matt LaFleur?” Landry said. “I feel like they are not on the same page. This year he’s just seemed to be very flat.”
He followed that with a sharper verdict on the present picture in Green Bay. “I don’t like what I see there right now, and I don’t know what happens at the end of this year. I feel like it might be time for a little switch-up there in Green Bay,” Landry added.
Those comments land on a franchise that already looks nothing like the team that expected to contend.
Three games into the season, Green Bay ranks last in several of the numbers that usually describe a functional offense, including offensive line performance, rushing yards per game, and completion percentage. Love is the common thread in those rankings.
When the line is struggling and the run game is producing little, the quarterback’s accuracy and rhythm become the public measuring stick.
Landry’s description of Love as “very flat” is an outsider’s way of saying the same thing the box score already suggests: the ball is not coming out with the same conviction or timing that once defined Love’s better stretches.
The Packers are 1-2 in a division that still looks capable of swallowing teams that start slowly. That record is not yet a death sentence, but it is early enough that every public critique of the quarterback carries extra weight. Landry did not claim Love cannot play.
He claimed Love and his coach no longer look coordinated, and that the quarterback’s energy this year has not matched the moment.
In a league that rarely discards a starting quarterback midstream, that kind of language still matters because it frames the rest of the season as a referendum on whether Love can reset the offense or whether Green Bay will spend the winter talking about a different direction.
Love is unlikely to be moved soon. Franchise quarterbacks remain scarce, and the Packers have already invested in him as the successor to a long, stable era at the position.
Landry’s remarks do not change that math. They do, however, put a name and a résumé on a growing unease: if Love stays flat, and if the offense stays last in the categories that decide games, the conversation about a “switch-up” will not stay confined to a Friday studio show.
It will follow Green Bay through the rest of a season that already feels lower than anyone in the building wanted it to be this soon.
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