Sometimes the story isn’t about who plays but how long they can survive doing it. Green Bay enters Thanksgiving chasing control of the NFC North, and its quarterback will line up bruised, limited, and still refusing to sit. Jordan Love is playing through a separated left shoulder, and the Packers know what that means: one mistake, one free rusher, and one missed assignment could flip the season. The margin for error is gone.

Green Bay head coach Matt LaFleur made that clear. He praised Love for gutting through the injury but stressed that he must stay protected. “I was holding my breath at times when he was getting hit while releasing the ball,” LaFleur admitted.

“We have to do a better job collectively as an offense of making sure—there were a few miscommunications up front wher

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