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To be clear: This is the glass-half-empty point of view.
If you're an optimist about the Green Bay Packers, this may strike you as a bit harsh, but it's worth analyzing, because the Packers always have high expectations and this season will be no different.
Love appears, most of the time, to be a franchise quarterback. This season will test that more than ever before.
The Packers let two receivers go this offseason, losing Romeo Doubs and Dontayvion Wicks without really replacing them.
Josh Jacobs, the bellcow running back, is dealing with off the field trouble.
Micah Parsons is out for at least the first month of the season.
And Love himself still hasn't proven he can stay healthy for a full campaign.
So if things go bad here, they could actually go quite bad.
To avoid that, the Packers will need Love to reach a new level.
"More than ever in Green Bay, Love will be asked to pick up some of the slack for the rest of the roster," ESPN's Dan Graziano wrote as part of a new article on Tuesday. "He's under pressure to stay healthy, to elevate his wide receiver group and maybe to help the offense carry the defense a little bit -- at least early in the season. The Packers play in a brutally tough division and always have high expectations. This will be a big year for Love to show if he's the guy who can deliver on them."
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Every offseason, analysts try to figure out which players will take a step forward and which will take a step back.
Love is in a situation where even if he improves, it may look like he's stuck in neutral, because the situation around him has gotten worse.
And if Love doesn't take any forward steps, the Packers may end up moving backward. They haven't arranged things in a way conducive to Love's success.
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