Despite insane pressure numbers and an inept performance against the Minnesota Vikings, the Green Bay Packers' coaching staff remains outwardly calm. Evidence suggests Jordan Love’s protection is currently the roster's biggest liability.
Offensive coordinator Adam Stenavich says he's not freaking out about the Green Bay Packers' Week 1 loss to the Minnesota Vikings to kick off the 2026 season.
Stenavich wasn't hooked up to a lie detector during his Monday press conference with the Green Bay media, but had he been, that more than likely had to have been a lie.
How could he not be freaking out?
The offense did some really nice things against Brian Flores' Minnesota defense, of course. Christian Watson caught six passes for 147 yards and two touchdowns. Matthew Golden looked good in his first game in Year 2, catching six passes himself, for 95 yards. Tucker Kraft, fresh off an ACL tear, averaged 21.7 yards per catch on three catches.
Those were positives, but Stenavich, Green Bay's former offensive line coach, told the media on Monday that he wasn't freaking out as it relates specifically to the play of the offensive line.
The very same offensive line that allowed quarterback Jordan Love to be hit 15 times, officially, while allowing their quarterback to face ten unblocked pressures, per ESPN's Rob Demovsky.
That was the most unblocked pressures any quarterback has faced in the NFL in the past five season.
Love was sacked four times and he was blitzed on 78.3% of his dropbacks. The Packers' pass-block win rate was just nine percent, according to ESPN Analytics.
And yet, Stenavich said he isn't freaking out.
“I’m not gonna freak out or overreact or anything like that. This is the first game of a 17-game season," Stenavich said on Tuesday, according to Justis Mosqueda of Acme Packing Company.
Again, that's got to be a lie.
The Packers offensive line wasn't just bad in Week 1. It was inept. It was completely lost. It looked barely professional if not semi-pro.
As a unit, the offensive line struggled mightily to get on the same page. There were also plenty of individual failures, though. Jordan Morgan's first start at left tackle saw him rank last amongst all tackles in pass block win rate. Sean Rhyan ranked dead last among all centers in the same category.
It was an abject failure, and especailly for a former offensive line coach, this has to be freaking Stenavich out.
The book is out on how to fluster this offensive line, after just one week. Not every defensive coordinator is going to be as blitz-happy as Flores, but the clear takeaway from Week 1 is that this offensive line, as currently constructed, is Green Bay's biggest weakness.
Stenavich is right in one thing. It was only Week 1, so the Packers do have time to fix these problems and perhaps even try out different combinations along the offensive line to see what works.
Guard Aaron Banks didn't suit up due to injury, and though he's been a disappointment for the Packers, he at least has a history of solid play. Interestingly, though, instead of playing draft picks Jager Burton or Anthony Belton, the Packers chose to replace Banks with an undrafted player with only six career snaps: Donovan Jennings.
Belton or Burton could be a part of the improvements coming up for Green Bay. At the very least, Stenavich seems to understand that he has to do something, anything, to make things better for Love and the rest of the offense.
"We're gonna kind of rotate a few guys and just see what our best combination is for sure," Stenavich said, per Demovsky.
