Just like a Padawan learning from a Jedi Master, @jordan3love gains invaluable knowledge from working with @AaronRodgers12.#PackersCamp pic.twitter.com/x51ZWOae4e
— Green Bay Packers (@packers) August 6, 2021
Jordan Love understands “Star Wars” lore and his place in the hierarchy of quarterbacking expertise.
In “Star Wars,” a Force-sensitive individual is identified as a Padawan and trained under a Jedi Master. In Green Bay, the roles are clear: Love is the Padawan and Aaron Rodgers is the Master.
“It’s kind of like the Master and the Padawan kind of thing,” Love said Thursday when asked about his relationship with Rodgers. “Just trying to learn as much as I can from him.”
In many ways, Love is in the perfect quarterback apprenticeship. Not only is he coached by a former quarterback and on a annually successful team committed to a deliberate approach to his development, but he gets to learn behind one of the NFL’s all-time greats, providing a rare opportunity for a talented young passer to sit and grow in an ideal situation for maximum growth as a player and leader.
”The biggest thing for me is just being able to watch him,” Love said. “You get that knowledge from a Hall of Famer, in my second year, it’s valuable.”
Love said he’s trying to mimic just about everything Rodgers does, from tempo to footwork and everything in between, which is exactly what Rodgers has said he once did behind Brett Favre.
That Master-Padawan relationship was far more icy than this one. Rodgers said he “loves and respects” Love, while Love said the two have a “great” relationship.
Favre famously exited Green Bay during the summer of 2008 and eventually made his way over to the Dark Side, where he tortured Rodgers and the Packers for one season as the Vikings quarterback before later watching his apprentice hoist the Lombardi Trophy as a true Jedi Master in February of 2011.
It’s unclear how this apprenticeship will play out over the next few years. Rodgers already has an uncertain future past 2021. And by next year, Love should be ready to play. The training process should be complete.
The Packers will hope their latest quarterback Padawan can follow in the footsteps of those before him and become the NFL’s next Jedi Master.
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