Matt LaFleur believes in process over outcome with Jordan Love and you should too
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There are few things I’d rather read less than daily training camp completion stats. The nutritional facts on an ice cream sandwich, auto-recaps of my fantasy football losses, and Bears preseason previews. That’s probably the list. And Matt LaFleur doesn’t care either. He believes in process because he understands quarterback play and trying to evaluate it, encompasses an entire world beyond what the box score (a phrase used extremely loosely in this context because it’s practice,) says. Preseason will be just another example. It’s a useful tool to get additional reps for guys who need it, but it’s not something we can take all that much from because the context changes so much during the regular season.
In other words: don’t worry about the Jordan Love counting stats.
“I think that’s going to be a process,” LaFleur said in his opening training camp press conference regarding the adjustment to Jordan Love as the new starting quarterback back in July.
“Certainly, we want him to be excited about every play and, throughout the course of this process, there’s going to be some plays where he may not have the comfort level with yet, or conversely, the guys around him might not have the level of comfort. So, it’s going to be pretty fluid in regards to what we like, what we don’t like.”
LaFleur wasn’t done, either.
"It's more or less just the process of becoming better each and every day and the command that he has. Certainly, you want to give him every opportunity. You can't give him enough reps. Just making those incremental improvements and becoming more consistent on a daily basis.”
That’s all on the first training camp media session.
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