CHICAGO _ Eight months of hype for the 2019 Bears season fizzled into boos Thursday night at Soldier Field.
The opener for the NFL's 100th season was supposed to also be a kickoff for the Bears' Super Bowl hopes in their 100th year. Instead, the offense's sloppy play and coach Matt Nagy's questionable decisions will be remembered in a 10-3 loss to the Packers.
Despite being sacked five times, Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers improved to 17-5 in the regular season against the Bears. He led a 74-yard touchdown drive in the first half to put the Packers up for good.
The Bears held the Packers to only a 39-yard Mason Crosby field goal beyond that. But a fine defensive effort wasn't enough to make up for the offense's shortcomings.
Former Bears safety Adrian Amos sealed the Bears' sixth straight season-opening loss when he intercepted quarterback Mitch Trubisky in the end zone with 2 minutes, 3 seconds to play.
And that might not have been the ugliest play of the night for the Bears offense.
Bears fans started to boo at the end of the first half, and the displeasure increased after the Bears went three-and-out on each of their first two drives of the second half. They failed to convert a third-and-inches at their own 19-yard line on the second drive when Trubisky was sacked.
Then a promising drive ended with an odd call by Nagy.
The Bears had a second-and-5 from the Packers' 28-yard line. But two Trubisky incompletions sandwiched the Bears' second delay-of-game penalty of the drive to make it fourth-and-10 from the 33. Instead of having kicker Eddy Pineiro attempt a 51-yarder, Nagy chose to go for it. Trubisky gained 3 yards, and the Packers took over.
The Bears reached the Packers' 43-yard line on their next drive, but two penalties on left tackle Charles Leno and an offensive pass interference call on Taylor Gabriel backed them up to first-and-40 at the Bears' 27.
Pineiro made his first career field goal attempt, a 38-yarder late in the first quarter, for the Bears' only points.
After totaling minus-12 yards on the Packers' first three drives, Rodgers completed all four of his passes on the touchdown drive. He found Jimmy Graham for an 8-yard touchdown pass in front of backup safety Deon Bush.
