Packers vs. Bears (38-20), Jordan Love leads Packers to win

Turns out, Aaron Rodgers might have been only a co-owner of the Chicago Bears. Jordan Love appears to have left Soldier Field with a share for himself.

New Green Bay Packers quarterback. Same story for the woebegone Bears.

On the same field where two years ago Rodgers told Bears' faithful, "I still own you," after another Packers' win over their NFC North rivals, Love began his tenure much the same way.

A 38-20 victory in the first game of the post-Rodgers era sent a pointed message.

"Nothing's changed," running back Aaron Jones said. "We're still the Packers."

Whether or not Love has a 15-year run in him to follow 30 years of Rodgers and Brett Favre, these are his Packers now. He waited three years as a backup to show it and for at least one afternoon, he made general manager Brian Gutekunst's bold move to trade up to pick a quarterback in the first round of the 2020 draft look prescient.

The Bears offense committed five penalties in the game, three false starts and two for holding. Those miscues stalled drives and limited the offense to a 23.1 percent success rate on third down (3 of 13).

"We put ourselves behind on offense a bunch of times, and I think that's why the third downs were not what they expected to be," Eberflus said. "We've got to get that cleaned up because that's something you can improve by being disciplined and not having those penalties. Last year we were third in the league in penalties so we can definitely clean that up. That's correctable."

With pressure aplenty on Love to fill the cleats of the departed Rodgers, the 24-year-old earned his first NFL victory as a starting QB and his first win in a storied but now lopsided rivalry.

The performance certainly reinforced head coach Matt LaFleur's confidence in his young QB.

"There's a big-time belief in that locker room for Jordan Love," LaFleur said. "I think the guys are going to rally around him. They're excited for him. They love him, they respect him."

As Love looks to follow a pair of all-time greats under center for the Packers, he took a huge step in the right direction Sunday.

This was without perhaps their most explosive receiver, Christian Watson. He was inactive with a hamstring injury, which is perhaps a reason LaFleur shut down Jones early even though Jones said he could have continued to play.

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Sarah H

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