It's hard to Love Green Bay's first-round pick

Let's go back to 2005. A young quarterback from California named Aaron Rodgers was drafted by Green Bay at the 24th pick. He was expected to go much earlier, so you have an angry quarterback with a big arm so some scouts say was too small (around 6-2, 225 now). The Packers already had a veteran quarterback and future Hall of Famer in Brett Favre, who was not ready for his career to end. Sound familiar?

Now Rodgers takes the Favre role because he didn't start right away. In fact, he did not become the stater until 2008, when the Packers traded Favre in 2008 to the Jets. So will that happen to Jordan Love? Rarely do NFL first-round quarterbacks sit to three years before taking over as the starter. Just like the Favre situation, this might end up ugly with A-Rod ending up somewhere else to end his career.

Rodgers is not what he once was in terms of being a top two or three quarterback, but he's still very good. He threw for 4,002 yards with 26 TDs and just four picks. After throwing for 40 TDs in 2016, Rogers has thrown for just 67 over his last three seasons (missed 9 games in 2017). Most of the other numbers are still very high including the quarterback rate of 95.4. Unlike Favre, Rodgers rarely forces passes and has thrown for double-digit interceptions since 2010. But he also doesn't take many chances.

Instead of giving Rodgers some help with a receiver in the first round, or at least trading up, they took quarterback Jordan Love from Utah at 26 overall.

"Yeah, I mean I'm not sure how that's going to work," Love said in a conference call, per ESPN's Rob Demovsky. "I'm going to get back here and learn as much as I can from Aaron. He's an amazing player and I know I'm going to learn a lot from him. I'm not sure how that situation is going to work but like I said I'm just excited to be behind him and do whatever the team needs when I'm [called] upon."

The Packers traded up for a potentially very good quarterback, who some had going late in the first round and others in the second round. That would make sense for most teams who had quarterback issues or somebody who was about to retired like Drew Brees or Philip Rivers. General Manager Brian Gutekunst's explanation on a conference call Thursday makes the pick more perplexing.

"Aaron's been around a long time and knows what we're playing for right now," Gutekunst said late Thursday night on a media conference call. "We have the best quarterback in the National Football League and we plan to have him for a while competing for championships.

"I think he'll be a pro's pro. He's playing for legacy-type things, historic-type stuff. I know he's very, very motivated."

This may have been similar to Rodgers being taken 15 years ago, but there's a difference. Rodgers was not expected to go that low. He wore the biggest chip on his shoulder and now he's angry again. Love was happy to be drafted in his first round and was expected to be the fourth quarterback taken. You can argue that he might end up being better than Justin Herbert, but Love's senior season at Utah showed that he had work to do and wasn't the finished product that Rodgers was. That's 20 touchdowns and 17 interceptions for a 7-6 team.

How are you playing for now, when reaching for a quarterback in the first round? They even traded a fourth-round pick to move up from 30 to Miami to get Love. Even if you took him in the second round, you'd be pissing off your future Hall of Fame quarterback (who can be moody), who is still very productive.