CHICAGO — Aaron Rodgers wasn’t sure how to rate this one.
Never mind that the Green Bay Packers took control from the start and won again at Soldier Field to remain unbeaten.
“We just won a big division game against a rival on the road, and I think there’s a feeling that we could have played a little better,” he said.
Rodgers threw for 297 yards, including three touchdown passes to Jermichael Finley, and the Packers shut down Jay Cutler and the Chicago Bears on the way to a 27-17 victory Sunday.
The stakes weren’t as high as the previous meeting, when the Packers left Chicago’s home field celebrating the NFC title on the way to the championship. Even so, they gave the Bears (1-2) more headaches in the NFL’s longest-running series.
Rodgers led the charge, completing 28-of-38 passes. He threw his first interception of the season, when Brian Urlacher picked him off with the Packers leading 27-17 in the fourth quarter.
The Bears took over at their 45, but two penalties — holding by Chris Spencer and unnecessary roughness on Devin Hester for a confrontation with Sam Shields — ended any shot at a comeback.
Rodgers hit Finley with a 6-yard TD on the game’s opening drive, a 7-yarder early in the second quarter that made it 14-0, and a 10-yarder that gave the Packers (3-0) a commanding 27-10 lead early in the fourth.
Morgan Burnett intercepted Cutler twice on passes intended for Roy Williams to help the Packers remain unbeaten.
Cutler was 21-of-37 with two touchdowns and two interceptions and threw six straight incompletions to start the second half.
“Lot of miscues,” Cutler said. “There were spurts of good football, just inconsistent, and against a team like that you are never going to beat them.”
