Will Jordan Love put it all together in 2025?

Yahoo Sports' Nate Tice, Matt Harmon, and Charles McDonald debate the fifth-year quarterback's potential to join the position's elite during the 2025 season. Hear the full conversation on “Football 301” - and subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube or wherever you listen.

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Man, they've got a lot of pieces.

They've got a lot of pieces.

Man, and I think last year, even though it ended in a, pretty disappointing way with how, you know, they performed, especially on offense in that game against the Eagles, I still think last year was a good building block for what you ultimately want to become.

Because where my hesitation came from last year, I was like, man, this team's still really, really young.

Uh, they hadn't played all that much together.

I like they're still good, but they're gonna be some growing pains.

Uh, they were probably a little too sloppy by the end of the year, like when they had all those drops, like the Minnesota game comes to mind where it's like, guys, uh, that you know better than that.

I think Jaden Reed got a real bad case of drops.

He's had them at times, uh, but I think it was important for them to struggle through that just as they kind of grow up.

Like a lot of these guys are still in the rookie deal.

Zach Tom just signed, uh, his contract extension with the team.

You got Jordan Love, uh, locked in, who we all have as a or Matt, do you have, you have him as a top 10 quarterback, didn't you?

Yep, I think I had him like 9 or 10.

Yeah, we all have him as a top 10 quarterback.

Um, the offensive line, if they're healthy, man, that's gonna be a good unit.

The receivers, they're gonna be, they're gonna be at least good enough to get back to the playoffs.

So it's again like I see a franchise quarterback.

I see someone who I don't think is gonna play as badly as he did the Eagles game that many more times.

He'll have a couple of them just because, you know, he's short, and Love's gonna force it every once in a while, but you've got a franchise quarterback, a good offensive line, you're gonna be able to run the ball and you should be able to hit a couple more deep plays this year.

Uh, now that Matthew Golden's in the fold, so it just felt really complete to me, and I wanted to put them in the top five because I think this could be the year where you finally see, like, oh, OK, all that stuff that we've been putting together for the past year.

And while we picked Jordan back in and had him sit for years, we did it for this season, and I think that we're gonna see it.

Uh, the culmination of all that.

Easy to include in that top 10 quarterbacks list, kind of question marks about him maybe nationally and publicly and everything.

I think he's locked in there.

Uh, he doesn't take sacks, he's their explosive is all get out.

Sure, you even look at QBR and again this is just one stat to look at.

He had a 69.3 QBR last year.

That's ridiculously good.

Anything over 70 is MVP caliber.

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