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Matt LaFleur’s track record, Jordan Love’s TD streak against Jaguars in question
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Matt LaFleur’s track record, Jordan Love’s TD streak against Jaguars in question

GREEN BAY – One day, Matt LaFleur wants to join the list of head coaches who have won Super Bowls, and he will pursue that goal as relentlessly as he can.

Until he can do that, he’ll have to settle for having a pretty good record against coaches who’ve won Super Bowls, and he’ll face another on Sunday in Jacksonville Jaguars coach Doug Pederson.

Pederson, the former backup QB for the Packers, won a Super Bowl as head coach of the Eagles in the 2017 season. Since then, he and LaFleur have paired up twice, splitting two games (Philadelphia won in 2019, Green Bay won in 2020).

Overall, LaFleur is 13-5 against Super Bowl-winning head coaches; not before, if you count these coaches’ encounters after they won the Super Bowl.

The record stands: 3-0 against Sean McVay; 2-0 against Pete Carroll and Mike McCarthy (including a playoff win against each); 1-0 against Bill Belichick and John Harbaugh; 1-1 against Andy Reid, Mike Tomlin and Pederson; and 1-2 against Sean Payton.

Before Pederson on Sunday, Payton was the only person LaFleur had coached with more than one team. Payton coached the Saints for two games against the Packers in 2020 and 2021 and then beat them with the Broncos last season.

Barring any coaching changes around the league, the Packers and LaFleur are scheduled to face Baltimore/Harbaugh, Dallas/McCarthy and Pittsburgh/Tomlin again next season. Green Bay will also face a team from the AFC West (which could again be Kansas City/Reid or Denver/Payton) and a team from the NFC West (which could again be the LA Rams/McVay, depending on where the teams finish their respective races). League rankings in 2024.

In other words, quarterback Jordan Love has an impressive bullpen he wants to build on Sunday against the Jaguars.

Love has scored two or more goals in nine consecutive regular season games since last year. He had the chance to join an elite company as he aimed to take the series to double digits.

If Love’s hitting streak reaches 10 games, he would become the fourth QB in league history to throw more than two TD passes in 10 or more consecutive games before turning 26, according to NFL Research.

The others are Patrick Mahomes (14 games, 2018-19), former Packers star Brett Favre (12, ’94-95) and Dan Marino (10, 1984). Love turns 26 next week.

Favre’s 12-hit streak in the first of his three MVP seasons in 1995 was the second-longest in team history. Aaron Rodgers holds the team record with a streak of 13 strikeouts in the first 13 games of 2011, a season in which he won his first of four MVP awards.

Love’s streak started in week 15 of last season. If the playoffs are included, his streak of more than two TD passes is actually at 11 games, as he threw for three TDs in a wild-card win over Dallas last January and then threw for two more in the divisional loss at San Francisco.

Including the playoffs, only two QBs in the league since 2020 have double-digit TD pass streaks of more than two: Mahomes and Tom Brady.