Observations from Sunday's Packers-Bears Game

-Most defensive coordinators, looking at the game tape of a quarterback who was sacked 11 times in his last two games, would throw every blitz in the playbook at a hapless Jay Cutler. Not Dom Capers. The Packers' defensive wizard basically gave the Bears a taste of what they did in Game 3 last year: Stop the run, play Cover 2 and drop eight men into coverage on third down. With B.J. Raji and Ryan Pickett dominating up front, and Clay Matthews and Desmond Bishop tackling Matt Forte behind the line, it worked extremely well.

-Randall Cobb might be the gutsiest punt returner I've ever seen. Some of those non-fair-catches in traffic bordered on the suicidal, but he somehow made it work.

-Clay Matthews doesn't look like his old self rushing the passer this year. He's lighter, playing at ~250 pounds, and that enables him to slice around offensive tackles or pulling guards and make the tackle for loss (he had three Sunday), but it also hurts his ability to rush the passer. If the tackle controls his outside rushes, Matthews' signature ability, he can't make him pay via the bull-rush. I also wonder why Capers isn't moving the Claymaker around as much this year. I only saw one time where Matthews looped around and rushed up the middle, but that time, he drew a holding penalty. Whatever happened to lining him up at ROLB?

-With Greg Jennings (nine catches, 119 yards) and Jermichael Finley (7 for 85, three touchdowns) dominating the stat sheet, there's not much room for the other receivers. Jordy Nelson, Randall Cobb, James Jones and Donald Driver all want the ball, but the best thing they can be in this offense is role players. They need to trust that Rodgers won't forget about them, and a sign of that trust is that nobody has complained so far about being left out (except once or twice from Jones).

-Hard to say what was up with James Starks. He wasn't getting the holes opened for him that Ryan Grant was, but he looked hesitant at the line and let himself be chased down by Lance Briggs on the edge.

-How good is Aaron Rodgers? Every time I think I know the answer, it just keeps changing. He's definitely a MVP candidate.