Matt LaFleur gave Jordan Love the green light against the Bears, and the Packers looked like a different team for it.
In a 31-7 win over Chicago, Green Bay finally played with the kind of conviction that has been missing for much of the season. Instead of settling in and trying to nurse a lead, the Packers kept attacking, and the passing game carried the night.
Love delivered his best outing of the year by a wide margin. He threw for 367 yards and two touchdowns while completing just six passes, and he posted season highs with a 95.2 QBR and a 137.5 quarterback rating. The deep shots were landing all game long, with Christian Watson, Matthew Golden and Tucker Kraft all ripping off gains of 53, 50 and 46 yards, respectively.
The shift in approach was hard to miss once the game moved past the opening stretch. Green Bay jumped ahead 14-0 and briefly looked like it might drift into the familiar mode of playing it safe with a big lead.
Instead, the second half brought a much sharper edge. After going up 20-7, the Packers kept pushing for chunk plays and never really let Chicago breathe.
That aggressiveness showed up in the way LaFleur called the game after halftime. On four of Green Bay’s six second-half drives, not counting the final two in garbage time, the Packers started with a pass rather than a run. Every one of those plays produced a gain of more than 30 yards, instantly tilting the field in Green Bay’s favor.
The first half still had plenty of the old Green Bay habits, including the kind of negative runs on first and second down that have frustrated observers. But the second half looked different, and that difference was the story. Love and the receivers were in rhythm, and LaFleur kept feeding it.
The Packers did get some positive work from the ground game, but this win was driven by the air attack. Until Josh Jacobs is back, that should be the clearest possible sign of what Green Bay needs to lean on.
For one Sunday, the Packers stopped trying to simply manage a game and started trying to finish one in style. And when LaFleur let Love and the passing offense open it up, the whole thing looked a lot more like the Packers people expected to see.
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