BY LAWRENCE LANG
It’s a new era in Green Bay for the Green Bay Packers as Jordan Love starts on Sunday on the road in Chicago when the Packers take on the Chicago Bears. Love will become the third Packer to start in week one in the last 30 years. Brett Favre Started from 1993-2007, and the now New York Jets quarterback Aaron Rodgers started from 2008- 2022. Love, the 26th overall draft pick in the 2020 NFL draft, will take over center for now in his first overall season as QB1 in Green Bay.
Love said that he is ready for the new role, as in the 2023 pre-season, he had 193 passing yards and three touchdowns in three pre-season games. With Love at the helm, he takes over after 30 years of back-to-back HOF careers with Favre and Rodgers. Favre, a Three-time NFL MVP and Super Bowl XXXI Champion, along with many other accolades along with Rodgers, a four-time NFL MVP and Super Bowl XLV Champion and MVP, puts the pressure on Love to see if the Packers will hit the three-peat with Back to Back to Back Hall of Fame Qbs.
Green Bay last season was 8-8 heading into the last game of the season and, with a win, would make the playoffs, but the Detroit Lions would spoil that and beat the Packers 20-16, thus ending the Aaron Rodgers era in Green Bay.
Heading into Sunday’s game, Love will be without wide receiver Christian Watson (Hamstring), and with Romeo Doubs a game-time decision with a hamstring injury as well Love could be without his two top receivers which means Jayden Reed (Rookie) Green Bay’s 2023 2nd round pick could be WR1 Undrafted Wide Receiver Rookie Malik Heath and Dontayvion Wicks (Rookie) Green Bay’s 2023 5th round pick will see the action on the broad receiver side. Green Bay still has its one-two punch at the running back position with Aaron Jones and AJ Dillion. Green Bay will have its work cut out for them.
The Bears come off a 3-14 season and lose out the rest of the season after they beat the New England Patriots 33-14 in week seven of the 2022 season. Second-year head coach Matt Eberflus looks for a bounce-back year with the Bears. Justin Fields is also looking for a better year, as this will be his third year in the league. He has 24 touchdowns and 21 interceptions in two seasons with the Bears. Fields as the one-two combo in wide receivers with DJ Moore and Darnell Mooney and with Khalil Herbert at running back, the Bears offense looks good on paper, but will they perform to their full potential?
Sunday’s game will be the 207th meeting between the two teams, with the Packers leading the series 105-95-6 and the Packers having won the last eight games. The last time the Bears won was in 2018, when they beat the Packers 24-17. The two teams also have the first and second-most wins in NFL history. The Packers have 790 wins, while the Bears have 786 wins. The next closest team is the New York Giants with 715 wins, followed by the Pittsburgh Steelers with 661 wins.
Packers and Bears are slated for a 4:25 pm start on Sunday, and once the ball is kicked off, the Jordan Love Era begins.
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