MVP? MVP? With 10 games to play, Packers quarterback Jordan Love is playing his best football — and has elevated his play thanks to lessons learned from some late

GREEN BAY — Jordan Love knows that football is an imperfect game, and that he has not been a perfect quarterback this season.

But what the Green Bay Packers quarterback has done brilliantly — and why the Packers (5-1-1) enter Sunday’s matchup with the Carolina Panthers (4-4) atop the NFC standings, and why Love deserves to be in the NFL MVP conversation — is take his less-than-perfect moments and use them as lessons to raise his game and elevate his team.

“I think everything is a growth opportunity,” Love said. “There’s so many moments that are learning opportunities — that you get back in these situations again at the end of games when it’s the most critical times, you’ve got to go make plays.”

That’s precisely what Love has done, and as a result, he enters Sunday’s matchup having comp