Jordan Love continues Packers' winning ways vs. Bears - ESPN

CHICAGO — Turns out, Aaron Rodgers might have been only a co-owner of the Chicago Bears. Jordan Love appears to have left Soldier Field with a share for himself.

New Green Bay Packers quarterback. Same story for the woebegone Bears.

On the same field where two years ago Rodgers told Bears' faithful, «I still own you,» after another Packers' win over their NFC North rivals, Love began his tenure much the same way.

A 38-20 victory in the first game of the post-Rodgers era sent a pointed message.

«Nothing's changed,» running back Aaron Jones said. «We're still the Packers.»

Whether or not Love has a 15-year run in him to follow 30 years of Rodgers and Brett Favre, these are his Packers now. He waited three years as a backup to show it and for at least one afternoon, he made general manager Brian Gutekunst's bold move to trade up to pick a quarterback in the first round of the 2020 draft look prescient.

It was the Packers' ninth straight win over the Bears, but it felt like something much more than that.

«There's a big-time belief in that locker room for Jordan Love,» Packers coach Matt LaFleur said. «I think the guys, they're going to rally around him. They're excited for him. They love him. They respect him. He comes to work every day, great attitude, great energy. I think you saw that today.»

And behind the doors of the Packers' locker room, it could be heard, too. A cheer erupted when Love was presented with the game ball.

«It's definitely been a long time coming for me, three years as a backup,» Love said. «Just watching, learning and growing, seeing this team work, it feels good to be out there leading those guys and be out there playing with them finally and coming out with a dub is just what we wanted.»

Love made it