Jordan Love will have to take the next step in his career as the Green Bay Packers' quarterback without his revered position coach, Tom Clements, Rob Demovsky of ESPN reports.

On the day when the Packers announced that Clements, 71, is retiring, head coach Matt LaFleur said the next part in Love's evolution as a quarterback is to assume a more vocal leadership role within the team.

"I think the next step is just to continue to evolve as a vocal leader," LaFleur said of Love during Tuesday's season wrap-up news conference.

Clements will go down as the only person to coach Brett Favre, Aaron Rodgers and Love.

This is actually Clements' second or third retirement, depending on how he views it. He initially came to Green Bay as Mike McCarthy's quarterbacks coach in 2006 and left after the 2016 season. Clements was out of coaching for two years until the Arizona Cardinals hired him to work with Kyler Murray, who became Offensive Rookie of the Year in 2019.

Clements also coached for the Saints, Chiefs, Steelers and Bills.

Clements told ESPN in 2023 that if he was retired after his first stint in Green Bay, then he was "retired, retired" after the 2020 season in Arizona. That was until Rodgers persuaded him to come back to Green Bay in 2022 after Luke Getsy left to become the Chicago Bears' offensive coordinator.

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