Pack's LaFleur: Rodgers to start Sunday if he can

GREEN BAY, Wis. -- The Green Bay Packers are not Jordan Love's squad rather yet.

A time aft Love's productive show successful Sunday's nonaccomplishment to the Philadelphia Eagles, Packers manager Matt LaFleur made it wide that Aaron Rodgers volition commencement connected Sunday against the Chicago Bears if his rib wounded allows it.

Rodgers, who near the crippled against the Eagles successful the 3rd 4th due to the fact that of symptom and occupation breathing, underwent further tests connected Monday. However, LaFleur was vague astir the results.

"Sometimes there's worldly that doesn't amusement up connected each the scans," LaFleur said. "All I tin archer you is he's feeling a small spot better."

Rodgers besides has played with a breached close thumb for the past 7 weeks, yet LaFleur said they won't spell with Love unless it's an injury-related determination adjacent if the third-year backup is successful amended signifier physically than Rodgers.

"I don't deliberation that's what we're arguing here," LaFleur said. "It's just, we've got a batch of faith, rather frankly, successful some those guys. But you know, Aaron's the starting quarterback. He's battled done a batch passim the people of his career. It's beauteous good documented, and I deliberation he's been capable to play astatine a beauteous precocious level done a batch of antithetic situations. So again, we'll instrumentality it 1 crippled astatine a clip and marque the champion determination moving forward."

The Packers person their bye adjacent week, and LaFleur said that could besides origin into whether they clasp retired Rodgers to springiness him much clip to heal.

"I deliberation each those conversations, we'll person those conversations," LaFleur said. "If that's what we consciousness is best, past that's what we'll do."

Rodgers completed 11 of 16 passes for 140 yards and 2 touchdowns positive 2 interceptions (one connected a tipped shot and different erstwhile choky extremity Tyler Davis ran the incorrect route) earlier departing against the Eagles. In Love's 2 drives, helium went 6 of 9 for 113 yards and a touchdown and totaled 10 points portion helium was astatine the helm.

The inability by the Packers' defence to get a halt aft they got to wrong 40-33 prevented Love from ever getting a accidental astatine a game-tying oregon game-winning drive. The Eagles, who totaled 363 rushing yards, ran retired the last 1:08 of the game.

The backmost concern wasn't the lone contented LaFleur faced connected Monday. Another mediocre antiaircraft showing, which included much than 20 missed tackles by the coaches' number and helped pb to a 363-yard rushing crippled by the Eagles, forced LaFleur to reply questions astir coordinator Joe Barry's future.

LaFleur made it wide that helium wasn't considering a alteration to the antiaircraft unit astatine this constituent contempt continued struggles from Barry's unit.

"We're not going to spell down that road," LaFleur said. "So, again, if I thought determination was an contented determination past I would certainly, we'd marque the change. But we enactment arsenic a unit and collectively we're each successful this sucker unneurotic and it's ne'er conscionable 1 person. It's ne'er 1 person. It starts with myself and past it goes to our adjunct coaches and past our players."