Gosh, I've been in 100% complete agreement with your rankings...until this one. Not because I don't believe Love can be a top 10 quarterback, just not yet. The sample size of his positive work is just too small at this point.
If you examine his numbers, Love overall was unimpressive through October. Over his last 10 games he was much improved but had two poor games (Pittsburgh and the Giants), leaving a mere 8 games of positive regular season performance. Of those 8, only 3 if I'm counting correctly - KC, the Bears and Panthers - were in the top half of NFL total team defense. Two of those three were at home in Green Bay, and in the cases of Chicago and Carolina, they had little to play for at the end of the season. So, it was a soft and favorable schedule for Love.
In the postseason, he had a great game against Dallas but a poor one against San Francisco. That's simply not enough of a track record for my taste. 2024 feels like Love's real entrance examination into the top 10. We'll see how he does. If he performs as he did over his last 12 games throughout this season - sure, I'm entirely with you same time next year.
Until then - to me - this feels like an overreach with perhaps a heavy dose of recency bias from the Dallas game. Keep 'em coming - thoroughly enjoying this series.
Thanks for reading and I appreciate the comment. I agree that Love's sample size is small. But he showed enough high-level traits (going completely outside the physical aspect of his game) for me to put him there. A lot of maturity in the way he played, the way he deciphered coverages, processed post-snap, etc...when coupled with the physical attributes, it didn't seem that his good play was just a flash in the pan despite the small sample size. Again, thanks for reading and keep the comments coming.
Thanks for the thoughtful follow-up. Appreciate it as always.
Gosh, I've been in 100% complete agreement with your rankings...until this one. Not because I don't believe Love can be a top 10 quarterback, just not yet. The sample size of his positive work is just too small at this point.
If you examine his numbers, Love overall was unimpressive through October. Over his last 10 games he was much improved but had two poor games (Pittsburgh and the Giants), leaving a mere 8 games of positive regular season performance. Of those 8, only 3 if I'm counting correctly - KC, the Bears and Panthers - were in the top half of NFL total team defense. Two of those three were at home in Green Bay, and in the cases of Chicago and Carolina, they had little to play for at the end of the season. So, it was a soft and favorable schedule for Love.
In the postseason, he had a great game against Dallas but a poor one against San Francisco. That's simply not enough of a track record for my taste. 2024 feels like Love's real entrance examination into the top 10. We'll see how he does. If he performs as he did over his last 12 games throughout this season - sure, I'm entirely with you same time next year.
Until then - to me - this feels like an overreach with perhaps a heavy dose of recency bias from the Dallas game. Keep 'em coming - thoroughly enjoying this series.
Thanks for reading and I appreciate the comment. I agree that Love's sample size is small. But he showed enough high-level traits (going completely outside the physical aspect of his game) for me to put him there. A lot of maturity in the way he played, the way he deciphered coverages, processed post-snap, etc...when coupled with the physical attributes, it didn't seem that his good play was just a flash in the pan despite the small sample size. Again, thanks for reading and keep the comments coming.