The success of Jordan Love and the Green Bay Packers is hurting the Chicago media and the Bears fandom.
Maybe Chicago Bears fans, though.The Bears have been looking for a franchise quarterback capable of turning their team into a regular winner for a very long time. It’s difficult to remember how many times they’ve traded and picked throughout the years. They still don’t know the solution.
With Brett Favre and Aaron Rodgers, the Packers have had the solution at this position for the past thirty years. Love has now proven, week after week, that he is capable of leading the club as the next big thing.Chicago media and Bears supporters were inconsolable after Love played an almost flawless game on Sunday night in the crucial postseason game.
Here’s an illustration from the Chicago Sun-Times.”Face it: Jordan rules,” read the headline in Steve Greenberg’s piece on Sunday night. That would be Jordan Love, whose scary-good Packers playoff debut.”
Greenberg went on to say: “The foulest thing about the weekend wasn’t the miserable weather, but rather our collective mood after watching Packers quarterback Jordan Love go from promising first-year starter to budding superstar in a 48-32 dismantling of the Cowboys.”
The Bears are once again at a crossroads in their history, as noted by Greenberg. They must choose whether to select Justin Fields, a first-round pick in 2021 who some seem ready to let go of after three seasons with a 10-28 record, or to select another quarterback in the draft with the first overall pick.
Does this rivalry matter if there’s a new quarterback? It might not. According to Greenberg, Bears supporters must be thinking, “Good God, we’re never going to beat the Packers again.”I guess he’s got a point. Ten games in a row have seen the Bears lose against the Packers; the last two were in 2023 with Love starting at quarterback.
This season, Love put on a clinic in two games, the first in Week 1 and the second in Week 18, taking over where Rodgers and Favre left off. In the two wins, he completed 42 of 59 throws for 561 yards and five touchdowns, enough for a scorching 125.9 passer rating. In Love’s first season as a starter, the Packers’ victory in the regular-season finale guaranteed them a trip to the postseason.
In this weekend’s divisional round playoff game between the Packers and San Francisco 49ers, Love will now face another top-five defense. There’s little question that the Cowboys and Bears fanbases, along with another NFC fandom, will suffer if he can travel once more and lead the Packers to one Super Bowl victory. And if he does, you can anticipate that 49ers supporters would respond similarly to what Bears supporters did.