Love would finally find at least a bit of a rhythm in the fourth quarter, however, as he moved the football and connected with Allen Lazard for his first career touchdown, coming with about five minutes remaining. The young quarterback escaped as best he could, but he was pressured quickly throughout the contest, particularly when the Chiefs brought creative blitzes on third downs. The Green Bay offensive line, particularly on the interior, struggled all game long to keep Love clean. On offense, the Packers had no answers for the Chiefs’ pressure packages up front.

Those mistakes effectively cost the Packers nine points before the break, with missed field goal resulting from a poor hold, a blocked field goal (also potentially affected by a bad snap and hold), and a muffed punt off the foot of gunner Malik Taylor that led directly to a Chiefs field goal. First up was the special teams, which had three devastating errors in the first half and nearly had a fourth in the third quarter. Instead, it was two other units that share the primary responsibility for the Packers’ 13-7 loss on Sunday. A late third-and-long conversion allowed the Chiefs to kneel out the clock, but the defense put together perhaps its best performance of the season against one of the NFL’s most explosive offenses. They limited the Chiefs to 13 points, three of which came after one of several massive special teams mistakes that gave Kansas City the football inside the ten-yard line. The Packers’ defense did almost everything it could to keep the game close for the team’s young quarterback.

Love was hardly great in his first start as an NFL quarterback, but he generally kept pace with former NFL MVP Patrick Mahomes statistically through 60 minutes at Arrowhead Stadium. Jordan Love was not the reason that the Green Bay Packers lost to the Kansas City Chiefs on Sunday afternoon in week 9.

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