The Green Bay Packers finished the regular season with a 9-8 record courtesy of a solid offensive showing from quarterback Jordan Love and an offense that ranked 11th in average total yards per game (345.5).
Love, playing his first year as the team’s starter under center, spread the ball around well between Jayden Reed, Romeo Doubs, Christian Watson, and Dontavion Wicks – with the four receivers combining for 25 of the Packers’ 32 passing touchdowns and 2470 of the team’s 4159 total passing yards.
Entering the 2024 season, the Packers will be hoping for at least a repeat showing during the regular season with very few changes being made to an offensive group that performed so well, only falling three points to the San Francisco 49ers.
Love will have his top four receivers back for another year, with clear chemistry within the group ensuring that continuity is the best approach.
For the team, though, the minor adjustments made to the offense should only bring positive results and see the team again at the forefront of competing in the NFC North.
Green Bay Packers Offense to Improve With Additions
Solidifying the Offensive Line
Firstly, ensuring that Love remains healthy, as he was throughout last season, should always be the priority every year that he remains as the team’s starter.
Brian Gutekunst addressed this through the draft this year, adding former Arizona Wildcats lineman Jordan Morgan in the first round (25th overall).
Morgan, who played the majority of his college career at tackle, is penned in as the starting Right Guard for the Green Bay Packers to start his professional career, with his 6-foot-5, 311lbs frame a nightmare for opposing defensive players to try to break through.
Keeping your star quarterback upright is the best way to have success on the field, but having a strong interior can also be a boost for the running game – something that Love excelled at, especially in the red zone.
Solidifying the interior should also allow the Packers’ other significant recent addition to have a strong debut season with the team: Josh Jacobs.
New-look Running Game
Jacobs joins the Packers after playing his entire career with the Oakland/Las Vegas Raiders, where he put up three seasons with over 1000 rushing yards with last year’s 802 being the lowest of his entire career so far.
That total would still have led the Packers last season, with Aaron Jones topping out at 656 and A.J. Dillon picking up 613 on the ground. Jacobs, meanwhile, hit the endzone six times – more than both Jones and Dillon (4) combined last year. This was more than the team’s leader in rushing touchdowns, Love, who scored four of his own.
Adding a running back with serious pedigree and a penchant for finding the endzone, something Jacobs has done 46 times in just five seasons, will give Love a new weapon that can help bolster the team’s overall offense and potentially take off some of the pressure from the passing game.
The Green Bay Packers may believe they have a team strong enough to reach at least the Conference Finals, perhaps even the Super Bowl, in 2024. These two additions should certainly have a big impact offensively in their hunt for that next success of the Jordan Love era.
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