Our Paul Noonan recently wrote a good and, I think, important piece about Jordan Love. You should go read it yourself, obviously, but in short, the takeaway is this: Love is an efficient, effective quarterback whose volume stats take a hit because of the way the Packers run their offense.

This section, in particular, jumped out to me:

The Packers moved slowly under Rodgers in terms of pace of play, but they are glacial under Love, and while Rodgers was happy to check out of a run to a pass, Love is happy, for better or worse, to stick with run calls, leading to more running plays, and shorter overall games.

I don’t think we often consider pace of play — that is, how many plays a team runs in a given game — when we’re talking about an offense, but it’s absolutely a factor. For obvious re

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