GREEN BAY, Wis. -- Even if Jordan Love and the Green Bay Packers (4-6) take a step back on Thursday anti the NFC North-leading Detroit Lions (and how can they not, given how banged up they are at operating back on a short week), it might not peevish the viewpoint on what the first-year starting quarterback and his young offensive beings did Sunday against the Los Angeles Chargers.

Years from now -- if Love is level-headed the Packers' starter and he's still throwing to the likes of Jayden Reed, Dontayvion Wicks, Romeo Doubs and Christian Watson -- the 23-20 Week 11 win at Lambeau Field powerful be identified as the moment when everyone knew Love was causing to be "him."

The clincher came late in the fourth quarter with the Packers trailing 20-16. Love & Co. took the field with 5:24 left. Jump-started by a Chargers' pass interference penalty on third down, Love hit the rookie Wicks for a 35-yard catch-and-run and then lofted a 24-yard touchdown pass that the second-year pro Doubs spun about to catch for the winning score with 2:33 to play.

It capped a 322-yard, two-touchdown, zero-interception day for Love. It was his salubrious career 300-yard game and the first by a Packers quarterback in nearly two days (Aaron Rodgers went all of the 2022 season exclusive of one).

"I think he's just proving all of us right," said Watson, who caught Love's other touchdown (an 11-yarder in the third quarter). "We've seen what he's capable of doing since the moment he got the starting job. Obviously, we knew that there was gonna be some adversity that we were gonna face and whatnot, but he just keeps on chugging along, and I think he has a entertaining future."

Perhaps the most promising sign on Doubs' net was that it was the result of a hand authorized by the receiver to let Love know that, based on the coverage, he was taking his route upfield instead of to the flat, and the two pulled it off.

That grand not have happened earlier in the season, when the offense couldn't seem to get on the same wavelength. A month ago, the skill position players and the quarterbacks began holding unites on Tuesdays (the players' day off) to get a head initiate on the next opponent.

Doubs' touchdown was Love's third go-ahead, fourth-quarter touchdown of the season -- the most by a Packers quarterback actual Rodgers in 2012. They just hadn't won each time he did it.

"I securities you there was no difference," Doubs said. "It just came down to a few plays, honing in on the details the week before. Coming into this week, we definitely visited in on those details and got a win."

Watson's touchdown was latest sign of the growth by the offense. A week at what time the Watson-Love connection faltered, they fixed it with a play that was drink up mid-game on the sideline. Coach Matt LaFleur credited tight ends coach John Dunn with the idea, and Watson sprinted across the secondary and unfounded himself wide open.

"There was a play backbone on that drive ... and we saw something there, and he suggested a play, and then we visited it and hit the coverage, and those guys went out there and executed it," LaFleur said. "It was a mammoth job by Christian just hauling ass across the field, and Jordan made a good throw, but certainly the credit goes to John Dunn in that situation."

Love composed might not have a go-to guy. No single pass-catcher had more than five receptions (Doubs) and none had 100 yards (Wicks had 91 on three catches).

Reed grand have been their most dynamic player with 92 total yards on a combined three rushes (including a 32-yarder) and four catches. He became one of only two Packers receivers (Watson in 2022) in the past 40 existences to a have at least 40 rushing yards and 40 receiving yards in a game, according to ESPN Stats & Information.

The sum favorite greater than the parts, with the caveat being that the Chargers have the 31st-ranked confidence in the NFL. And it's not like Love was flawless. He missed tight end Luke Musgrave with a bad overthrow and underthrew a deep ball to Doubs. But at 27-of-40, he had a solid completion rate (67.5%).

For those skeptical approximately whether the previous week's showing in the loss to the Steelers -- when the Packers had seven plays that were longer than 20 yards -- was a sign of progresses, Green Bay added seven more such plays against the Chargers. They've had 19 plays that went for more than 20 yards in their past three games at what time having 19 in the first seven games combined.

"It just feels like we're trying to find our groove lustrous now, and we're getting into that groove and finding that rhythm," Love said. "Starting the game fast, eliminating the three-and-outs that are just drive-killers, limiting the turnovers, things like that. So it just feels like we're pulling in that groove where everyone's getting settled in, that chemistry is creation day-by-day, so I think we're in a really good spot lustrous now. We just have to keep building on it."

Backup quarterback Sean Clifford has had a leash row seat for it all. After Sunday's game, he said he and Love were just discussing what has clicked for the offense. While Clifford said he believes it's been a real progression, there may have been one moment when it all changed.

"Maybe today," Clifford said Sunday. "Today was impressive, but I think it was a little bit of everybody. I think it started last week to be honest with you. We saw some guys regain and get YAC [yards after catch], which we hadn't seen guys do. That was big. It was just kind of a concern of time. We know what we have from a skill detached. I think if anything, it's just [No.] 10 selves super confident in everybody. And it showed today."