After some deep analytics, I’m going with a hard MAYBE.

Perhaps not dominate to the level of the last 30 years but I firmly believe Jordan Love will have a winning g record against the Bears during his tenure. I am not sold on their roster this year either, I do not trust their O-line at all. The Packers still have a better roster right now and I believe they will compete for the division this year.

Perhaps not dominate to the level of the last 30 years but I firmly believe Jordan Love will have a winning g record against the Bears during his tenure. I am not sold on their roster this year either, I do not trust their O-line at all. The Packers still have a better roster right now and I believe they will compete for the division this year.

I don't get it. The Bears still suck, right?

He can, and he will!

First of all, this isn't Jordan Love's charge to dominate the Bears. All he has to do is run the Offense in the manner LaFleur wants it to be done.

LaFleur FINALLY has a scheme perfect and compliant QB1, along with every tool in the drawer to run all of his concepts. It's a very young Offense, but, brings a time tested group all along the OL.

Battles are won in the trenches, and the Packers have spent 3 years heavily fortifying both on O & D.

Defensively, the Packers have been on a 3 draft program to accumulate players for Barry to run his scheme. We added quite a lot to that side of the ball in that span. Stokes, Slaton, Ford, Walker, Wyatt, Enagbare, Van Ness, Wooden, Brooks, Valentine, Johnson Jr. & Cox Jr., Rasul Douglas and Tarvarius Moore. That's a pretty exciting group of defenders there, all of whom in the past two drafts/FA bring with them great Run D, which has been a major team weakness.

__

The Bears added the OT Wright, a WR in Scott, a RB in Roschon Johnson via the draft, along with FA RG Nate Davis from TEN up front. They needed to pass protect & run block. They also snagged Robert Tonyan at TE.

Their D was garbage last season, and they added 2 CBs via the draft, along with NT Gervon Dexter. In FA they added to pretty solid LBs in TJ Edwards from PHI, DE Rasheem Green from HOU and DT Andrew Billings from CLE.

Needless to say, CHI went on a FA spending spree. Their draft brings some solid players to cover up some weaknesses.

I just happen to see GB having started their reboot a couple of years sooner than the Bears, putting them ahead on the talent front.

Bears are going to suffer from not having film to counter what LaFleur has been dreaming up for years for Jordan Love offensively. Nor does CHI have any clue what Joe Barry's D is going to deliver. Us fans are equally left in the dark, but, we did add some formidable talents all over to complete Barry's positional needs.

Should be fun to see the Packers begin their new era meeting this challenge Game 1 in Chicago. I think our skill players will be too much for CHI to handle, especially with Love being given time to throw, and a solid, battle tested tandem of RBs to mix up our offerings and keep CHI's D playing honest.

The Bears in CHI are not going to be the push over we all remember. They've added talent and speed on both sides of the ball.

Both teams have gone to great lengths to become more competitive.

RUN THE ROCK. It will wear CHI's D out, open everything else up in the passing game, and will take a ton of heat off Love in his first meaningful start as QB1.

Who knows what the Bears are going to be this year. They can’t be worse than last year, but they are betting on perhaps the worst pure passing QB to return as a starter to improve and stay healthy and they have not been as aggressive in FA as I anticipated. Perhaps they still doubt their direction too,

In the Love versus Fields personal match up I don’t see Fields as a guaranteed winner. I’d pick our OL and our D to be better on paper. Other than DJ Moore, they have Kmet and Herbert on O. So thinner perhaps in threat, but more experienced at the top.

The big question for me is who will prepare better and win the coaching battle?

A win over the Bears is nothing to boast about, a loss to the Bears will echo loud that the pressure placed proves, more probable, no diamond in this chunk of coal.

It's tough to say right now. A lot depends on how fast the Bears can work their way back to respectability. The only thing good about them last year was that they led the league in rushing offense. Looking back at last year's defense, there's nowhere to go but up for them; same is true with their passing game. So they spent a bunch of draft and FA capital on LBs, DL, and OL; and added D.J. Moore.

Although it may take a little while for these new parts to mesh, we shouldn't count on the same level of suckiness the Bears have exhibited for much of the past 30 years.

Also while it's easy to focus on the QB's success against a particular opponent, the rest of the participating players have a little something to do with it as well.

Since the schedule came out you can go to any NFL football site and look at all the different season projections for the Packers. It's been the opinion of most the norm is anywhere from 6-11 to 10-7 for the Packers. Hell, Bill Huber even projected the Packers to lose BOTH games to the Lions...AGAIN, and the opener to Chicago and again in week two against Atlanta to start 0-2. Sorry Bill, you're WRONG! And I don't think I'll visit your site again, well at least until the Packers start 2-0 instead of your 0-2!

My hope is that it doesn't all fall on Jordan Love to continue the domination. While I think he's fully capable to come out and throw for 300 yards and 4 TDs in week one against THAT defense, I honestly think the 2023 Packers will do what we thought the MLF lead Packers would do when he was first hired. Win with a solid running game, playing good defense, and that illusion of complexity on full display.

YES, the domination will continue, it's just not going to all fall on Jordan Love.

The Bears still suck regardless...

Yes, Favre's and Rodgers' tenures were great for the Pack and the rivarly. The record against the Bears was partly on their huge talent, partly on great teams around and partly on Bears' weakness at times. Who is Jordan is then part of the story. It is also important if Bears will finally get done with their rebuild.

Everything is possible, Bears can still suck, we can start sucking, and in 2024 can be different again. I just don't buy the story I read in few places that the Pack are surely going to be on the bottom of the North and the Bears are the favorites. Besides JJ I don't see why Vikings are considered stronger than we are on paper. Surely, the field can verify it in both ways. Lions seem like they have been trading up for years but last year I heard the same and they didn't even get into playoffs. It may happen they are just fun to watch. Bears are loading up, yes. But remember who is under center. If I should choose Fields or Love - I take Love not as a Packer fan. Fields is not a running QB. He is a throwing RB. Bears can repeat over and over again how dominating he is but I don't see him going to be franchise QB with great running but not NFL level throwing. I can rather see that their loaded up team, with young talent around, will be slowed down by subpar QB play and they will start a new QB the next seson or even at some point of 2023. Enough speculation. I just don't see that we are THAT bad as for today. For me the North looks equal with us and Bears being the huge question marks and Lions with the legit marks of constant progress. None are like Chiefs, 49ers, Bills or Eagles.

And come on guys! Do we really need to waste time to consider our potential record against the Bears? Last 30 years are telling me that it should be their problem. We have ours to focus on.

"Love is unlikely to match Favre or Rodgers as a Hall of Fame quarterback although the Packers would be happy if he simply becomes a quality NFL starter who can help the team contend for the next decade or more"

Gil, how many people expected Favre or Rodgers to be a hall of fame quarterback before they started a game. Neither one of them looked like world beaters their first year. I have higher expectations for Jordan than contentment to be a quality starter. He has the tools and I expect to see him use them a very high level.

This Article is actually too soon.
I get the hope. The Rah Rah.
But there isn't one Known gambling place.
That doesn't have the Packers finishing Last.
So can Love beat Bears?
Maybe - if thats all what matters.

I sure hope so.

The only thing I know for certain is that if Love comes out in his first game of 2023 and looks good- just good- it’s going to make Bears fans really, really uncomfortable.

If Love comes out and puts on a show? It’s gonna absolutely CRUSH bears fans in a way that might almost elicit pity.

Almost, but not quite. The bears still suck.

"Love is unlikely to match Favre or Rodgers as a Hall of Fame quarterback although the Packers would be happy if he simply becomes a quality NFL starter who can help the team contend for the next decade or more."

Gil, I would like to know why did you put this statement? Are you sure? And you put "unlikely" by whose analysis?

While I really do not know will or will not Jordan Love have success in NFL, I'm not so brave to put, at the beginning of any player career, remark "unlikely" with any player.

For me is likely that he will be better than Favre and Rodgers. Why? Because in every human field young new people moving rhe borders of possible. Look at athletic records. Every season there is numerous new records in swimming, every new season there is a lot of new discoveries in science, new inventions that only few years ago nobody think it is possible to build something.

Young people are better in everything they do in every field. And that comes constantly moving from one to the next generation.

And that is logical. Young people starts with old knowledge already on their plates, so they just need to move the border further.

For me is more likely that Jordan Love will be better than his predecessors, than vice versa.

Brett Favre and ACR are past. Lets move to the present and future without doubting the quality of the future.

We're going to dominate the bears?! What journism? When you've beaten the bears , what have you achieved?! Nothing. I believe the lions will win the division. 50-50 between bears and vikings for 2nd-3rd in division. The other 3 teams in our division are stronger than us. We suck , it was demonstrated last season. This season we will see what players we shall have for the next 2 seasons. We know well that our coaching staff is worth practically nothing, front office is what as is. Hopefully at the end of next season we can get rid of lafleur and gute ,no not possible, we don't have owners .Another 2-3 years of the incompetent leFleur and gutenkunst ' the beautiful art is his surname in german " who will come after?

It's a long season a lot can happen- luck, injuries etc. I think the North Division is up for grabs. GPG!

Maybe. Even if Love turns into a HOF QB, it's his first year starting, and it's probably going to be an inconsistent season for him. He has some lessons to learn that can only be learned by playing. I expect a mediocre season. GB won 9 games in favre's first mostly starting season with a much better defense, and gb won 6 games in AR's first season.

Both QB's split with chicago, so i am going to say GB/Love will have a split record this year with chicago and gb will win 6-9 games this year.

Talent-wise, the Bears and Packers rosters are more even than ever before. Obviously I'm biased and I'd give the Packers an edge, but the Bears now have Moore, Mooney and Claypool, as well as Kmet and Tonyan at TE. If Fields can develop his accuracy and their O-line takes a step, their offense could be potent.

On the flip side, I'm cautiously optimistic about Love. My answer to the question of "will he continue to dominate the Bears?" is, I don't know. I know that's not popular in this day and age of hot takes, but simply put, I haven't seen enough of him. There are going to be growing pains. Young WRs and TEs running the wrong route or missing a block. It's going to happen. Love is going to miss some throws, not see a defender, or force some throws.

I can only hope that Love is more prepared, more mature and more ready than many of these rookie QBs who get thrown to the wolves and the NFL chews up and spits out. Time will tell on that, but I at least want to see one full season of him as the starter.

Defensively, as long as Joe Barry is calling the shots, I don't think it matters how many 1st rounders he has at his disposal. He won't use them right, he'll be slow to adjust, and Love may play well enough to win some games, only for Barry's defense to cave in and cost the Packers at least 2-3 games in 2023. I hope I'm wrong though. No more excuses Mr. Barry!!

Just win, baby.

At least da bares, were finally smart enough to get out of " Shithole" d/b/a Chicago. Ha ha. GPG!!

As Colin Cowherd said "patience my ass"...Love been here 4 years, ill give him 5 games to get it together...hopefully he's capable right out of the gate, but giving him a whole year? Bullshit...