Friday Cheese Curds: Love Vs. Man Coverage; All Quiet On The Defensive Front

The Green Bay Packers, like many teams in 2025, had great success attacking defenses when they played man coverage. The increased use of pre-snap motion has increased the passing game’s efficiency against man in recent years, and the Packers are certainly one of the teams to lean into that approach most prominently.

But no single quarterback had a better year throwing the ball against man than Jordan Love. That’s not just anecdotal — the stats back that up. Now, with a wide receiver group that is one of the fastest groups in the NFL, they may be able to attack man coverage even better. Unfortunately, defenses are in man coverage less and less of late. The Packers still need to be able to beat zone coverage with regularity as well, of course.

Looking at the other side of the ball, the questions continue to swirl around whether Green Bay will bring in a veteran pass rusher to help ease the load on their young edge group as it awaits Micah Parsons’ return from injury. But so far, there has been no real movement on anything; still, that’s for good reason. Ultimately, this is something the Packers can look into later on in training camp when they have a bit better of an idea what they have.

Finally, if you’re celebrating American Independence Day this weekend, we hope you have a safe and enjoyable holiday. Stay cool and have a great weekend!

No quarterback was better than Jordan Love vs. man coverage last season | Packers Wire
If you want to see a perfect example of this, I urge you to check out play number 6 on our Top Plays of 2025 countdown, which is publishing later this morning.

Titletown to host additional ‘World Soccer Watch Party’ July 6 | Packers.com
The Packers are getting into World Cup fever with a big watch party for the USMNT’s round of 16 game against Belgium on Monday.

Jadeveon Clowney? Josh Sweat? Latest on Packers’ Need for Pass Rusher | SI.com
While the Packers do appear to have a need on the edge, especially early on in the season, there doesn’t need to be an urgent rush to fill it, so there has been no movement on bringing in either of these veterans so far this summer.

Which U.S. area has best NFL players? Eight teams, Cup winner | ESPN
This is a bizarre but mildly intriguing thought experiment: what if you divided up the NFL’s players into 8 teams based on a player’s home state? These proposed rosters include several Packers, as well as a number of players who hail from the state of Wisconsin, but the Southeast team might come out on top.

Eala smokes Joint, blazes way to Wimbledon third round | PhilStar.com
My hat is off to this sports headline writer.