The Green Bay Packers didn’t just beat the Chicago Bears on Sunday. They flattened the idea that an NFC North curse had somehow gotten its claws into them.
Green Bay’s 31-7 win came with plenty of pressure attached after the way last season ended. Injuries piled up late in the 2025 season, the fourth-quarter failures kept coming, and the collapse against the Bears in the first round of the playoffs became the kind of loss that invited plenty of second-guessing. Chicago also won the last two meetings between the teams, which only gave the narrative more oxygen.
Then came the Week 1 loss of sorts to that storyline against the Minnesota Vikings, when the Packers built a comfortable lead and watched it disappear in the final quarter. That only pushed the conversation right back to the front.
Sunday looked nothing like that.
From the opening stretch, Green Bay took control and never gave it back. There was no late wobble, no letdown, no hint that this game might turn into another chapter of the same frustrating script. By the time it was over, the Packers had not only beaten the team that helped fuel the storyline, they had done it in a way that made the final score feel almost too tame for how one-sided things were.
The biggest difference was obvious: Jordan Love played incredible football again against Chicago, just as he had in the matchup that started all of this. And while fans know Bears supporters will point to Caleb Williams being out, it doesn’t change the reality of what Green Bay accomplished.
This was the kind of win that forces attention.
It also came while the Packers are still sorting out an offensive line that is only now starting to settle in, and without their best player as Micah Parsons continues to work his way back from last year’s ACL tear. That makes the performance carry even more weight, not less.
In the end, Green Bay’s early-season unevenness looks far more like a young team working through its issues than a repeat of last year’s collapse. That’s the better sign for this group, especially when compared with the way the 2025 season unfolded.
Now the Packers have a chance to build on a dominant win and keep pushing toward control of the NFC North.
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