Yeah, the early part of the game is key. The Packers have scored on their opening drive 12 times in the 15 games. Eight of those 12 have been opening drive TDs, including each of the last 3 games. In contrast, they've only scored 6 times to open 2nd halves (with five 3 & outs). To make things even worse, they are even more deadly on their 2nd drive. In fact, they have scored 212 points total in games before they've even had to punt the ball. Granted that does include a safety, a couple turnovers on downs, the fumble 6 against the Bears last time, and the 40-point 0 punt game last week. But that's an average of 14 points per game before they punt. If they get the ball first and get 1 stop, they'll very likely be up 14-0....as we saw in the first matchup....and the game is basically over at that point. In the Bears favor is that they've actually been pretty elite in the first half of games recently. During their 4 game 30-point streak, they've scored a league leading 86 first half points. So, it's going to come down to which defense can stop the scripted plays to start. The Packers aren't a mystery. The Bears have seen everything they will try to do. But that won't help the stop the Packers. They gotta get off the field on 3rd and long. As for the Bears on offense, they are a different group than the Packers saw 5 weeks ago. That was the first game with Trubisky, Mustipher, and Bars at RG. The Bears weren't really running the RPO and playaction heavy offense yet. So I do actually like the Bears chances to stay in it early if the Packers prove unstoppable on offense. But the key is Mitch. He has to keep up his play against a non-terrible team with a non-terrible defense.