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2023 NFL Schedule: Love-Led Packers Will Open at Bears

Aaron Rodgers owned the Chicago Bears. Can Jordan Love keep the Green Bay Packers’ dominance going?

Bill Huber

2023 NFL Schedule: Love-Led Packers Will Open at Bears
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GREEN BAY, Wis. – Jordan Love will make his debut as the Green Bay Packers’ starting quarterback with a Week 1 game at the Chicago Bears.

The game will start at 3:25 p.m. – Fox’s game of the week.

In that regard, the 2023 NFL schedule started with a little wink. The Packers under Aaron Rodgers owned the Bears. Incredibly, the Packers under Rodgers have won 12 of their last 13 treks to Soldier Field. Overall vs. Chicago, Green Bay has won eight in a row, 13 of 14, 17 of 19 and 23 of 26, spinning a decades-long deficit against its ancient rival into a 104-94-6 series lead.

Can Love keep Green Bay’s dominance going against the ascending Bears? Chicago retooled its defense in free agency and gave third-year quarterback Justin Fields a premier weapon when it acquired receiver D.J. Moore from the Carolina Panthers in a trade for the No. 1 overall pick.

“I have confidence in myself, I have confidence in the team, and we’re just going to take it day-by-day,” Love said on Wednesday. “I mean, I can’t say what might happen this year, what might happen next year. I mean, who knows? But I think that we have a really good team, I think we’re going to be able to work together every day, and just grow, keep growing, keep working together.”

In 2008, Rodgers made his starting debut at home against the Minnesota Vikings and emerged victorious with a 24-19 victory under the primetime lights. Rodgers was 18-of-22 for 178 yards with one touchdown pass and one touchdown run, and Atari Bigby’s interception clinched the game.

In 2023, Love will make his starting debut with back-to-back road games against the Bears and Atlanta Falcons before making his Lambeau Field starting debut in Week 3 against the New Orleans Saints.

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Bill Huber
BILL HUBER

Bill Huber, who has covered the Green Bay Packers since 2008, is the publisher of Packers On SI, a Sports Illustrated channel. E-mail: packwriter2002@yahoo.com History: Huber took over Packer Central in August 2019. Twitter: https://twitter.com/BillHuberNFL Background: Huber graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater, where he played on the football team, in 1995. He worked in newspapers in Reedsburg, Wisconsin Dells and Shawano before working at The Green Bay News-Chronicle and Green Bay Press-Gazette from 1998 through 2008. With The News-Chronicle, he won several awards for his commentaries and page design. In 2008, he took over as editor of Packer Report Magazine, which was founded by Hall of Fame linebacker Ray Nitschke, and PackerReport.com. In 2019, he took over the new Sports Illustrated site Packer Central, which he has grown into one of the largest sites in the Sports Illustrated Media Group.

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