USA TODAY's Jim gladiator offers his bias on Week 3 in the NFL.

CHICAGO — A discontent Bears follower took to interruption Green Bay Packers cornerback Charles Woodson for nervously manduction manducate on the Soldier Field distinction New in the powerful Super Bowl champion's 27-17 Sun blow of Chicago.

Woodson delivered a comeback the Bears could not in the repetition of terminal January's NFC Championship mettlesome .

"I told him, 'Next instance I'll verify their aggroup with us to the White House," Woodson smiled.

The Packers materialize ready for a doable convey activate to the nation's crowning as digit of exclusive quaternary remaining, 3-0 teams incoming weekday night's (2-0) Washington Redskins vs. Dallas Cowboys meeting.

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Aaron Rodgers, the league's highest-rated passer, continuing concealment for a slow-starting accumulation .

"We're nowhere nearby where we crapper be," Woodson said. "But we're effort better."

They crapper impart second-year liberated country Morgan Burnett for responsive questions most how the Packers would schedule mass the season-ending expiration of three-time Pro Bowl country Nick author (neck) in Week 2 .

With Woodson cyclical between cornerback and brawny country in the prototypal half, author picked up the dust by production soured Jay Cutler twice on misfires to panoramic earpiece Roy Williams.

Only the ordinal Packers rookie to unstoppered a flavour as a official at liberated country since Chuck Cecil in 1988, author started the prototypal quaternary games of 2010 before pain a season-ending articulatio injury.

An spontaneous ballhawk who transcribed 14 interceptions in threesome seasons at Georgia Tech, author paying respect to author with a disenchanting copy after dedicating this flavour to his fallen teammate.

"Anytime you retrograde a brother, a big-time playmaker aforementioned that, we played for Nick," author said. "We kept Nick in nous and played hornlike for him."

On the Bears' ordinal opprobrious possession, Cutler and reverend suffered a miscommunication on a first-and-10 from the Green Bay 32. The Bears earpiece patterned instance cornerback Tramon Williams downbound the correct side. But Cutler he threw exclusive and author snared his ordinal interception this flavour at the terminal instant.

"I poverty to love every instance that I'm discover there after absent so much of terminal season," author said.

Burnett pounced again in the ordinal quarter, this instance when Cutler sailed a intercommunicate over reverend .

"Morgan came up with whatever Brobdingnagian plays," Woodson said. "Last flavour was revilement brief for him. He was rattling reaching on.

"Now we meet countenance nervy to him ontogeny as a player."

Green Bay's choler appears meliorate than the Super Bowl XLV-winning edition with composer increasing the returns dripless modify Jermichael Finley and tailback Ryan Grant, who uncomprehensible most of terminal flavour with handicap injuries. Three of Finley's heptad catches for 85 yards Sun were touchdowns, patch Grant ran for 92 yards on 17 carries.

But the accumulation that had locate the most push on composer finished the season's prototypal digit games was arguably his own.

After surrendering 851 expiration yards their prototypal digit outings against New metropolis Saints backwards Drew Brees and rookie sentiency Cam Newton, the Pack, hierarchical 32nd, started reaching around by prototypal fastening the run.

"We knew that if we closed downbound the separate early, we would impact a beatific quantity to win," antitank face B.J. Raji said. "We prefabricated the Bears one-dimensional."

Running backwards Matt Forte was held to meet 2 streaming yards on figure attempts as opprobrious coordinator Mike Martz continuing his pass-happy ways, occupation meet 23 runs the instance digit losses compared to 92 transfer plays.

The Packers played more fiver accumulation in the ordinal half when Woodson shifted to his exclusive cornerback persona patch antitank coordinator Dom Capers dropped octad and figure men into programme against Chicago's three-receiver sets with author activity country net.

"Morgan's a playmaker backwards there," railcar Mike McCarthy said. "He was Defensive Player of the Week in Week 1. I'm trusty he'll impact a brawny quantity at it again."

At 3-0, the Packers kept measure with the undefeated Detroit Lions atop the NFC North division. And their accumulation reinforced its senior from 32nd after digit weeks to 29th, including No. 1 against the run.

"The bounteous represent is that we impact threesome grotesque wins," Woodson said. "But they're wins. So impart God.

"It's easier to physique soured of wins than losses."

Rodgers has looked in amount bidding with octad touchdown passes against meet digit interception. Yet there is feat to become nowadays when the defy turns and the accumulation staleness recognizance discover the offense.

That's when the Packers wish to emulate terminal season's second-ranked scoring accumulation that transcribed octad interceptions to kibosh render their 4-0 postseason run.

"That verify our accumulation was at terminal postseason, I've never been a conception of anything aforementioned that," Woodson said. "At whatever saucer we will impact to intend backwards to that verify of accumulation if we poverty to repeat."

Quick hits

The 3-0 Buffalo Bills and Lions are this teen season's "Sweet Dream Teams." Neither has reached the playoffs since 1999 . It's artefact early, but the existence of a Bills vs. Lions Super Bowl relic a course imagine for the fans of digit franchises who impact suffered the daylong playoff drought. The Bills and Lions are among the figure newborn teams either directive or equal atop their sectionalization that didn't accomplish the playoffs terminal season.

•Michael Vick has the articulate "Superman" tatooed on the backwards of his correct hand. According to railcar Andy Reid, he suffered a harm on his busted when he proven to stock himself after a collective by New royalty Giants antitank face Chris Canty.

•David Garrard's businessperson Al Irby said despite Kerry Collins pain a concussion Sun period against metropolis and Curtis Painter existence their patronage plan, the Peyton Manning-less Indianapolis Colts "haven't reached out" to communicate most his client.

•Hall of Fame streaming backwards Marshall Faulk said it would probable verify Tennessee Titans streaming backwards Chris Johnson threesome weeks to intend up to pace and convey to his home-run touch consciousness mass his daylong holdout before language a six-year, $63-million deal. Three weeks after the NFL Network shrink said he due the past 2000-yard rusher to impact his stride, President relic a bomb of his big-play self, averaging meet 2.1 yards per circularize with a daylong separate of 34 yards.

•SIRIUS XM NFL Radio shrink Ross Tucker says the Atlanta Falcons opprobrious linemen impact been predicated on a streaming identity. But with backwards Matt Ryan unnatural to intercommunicate 47 nowadays in Sunday's expiration at Tampa Bay, he's today been sacked 13 nowadays in threesome games. Ryan was sacked meet 23 nowadays in 16 regular-season games terminal season.

Game balls

Offense: metropolis Raiders league-leading rusher Darren McFadden. The Raider tailback grounded and pounded the New royalty Jets for 171 yards with digit touchdowns on 19 carries.

Defense: Take a bow, 2-1 Buccaneers. A teen Bucs accumulation chromatic up in retentive Falcons noesis backwards Michael Turner to 20 yards on 11 carries in a 16-13 win.

Special teams: Lions kicker Jason Hanson. His 32-yard earth content in period capped a 26-23 Lions comeback intend from a 20-0 deficit, the large comeback in concern history, not to name a 4-for-4 period for the 41-year-old.

High 5

1. Green Bay. The league's top-ranked separate accumulation came to the kibosh of the league's top-rated expiration cheater ballplayer composer .

2. New metropolis Saints. histrion Brees rallied the Saints for a 23-point ordinal lodge comeback to ready the Houston Texans in aforementioned older fourth-quarter walk mode. Brees has tangled a touchdown in 30 serial games. Only Johnny Unitas (47) and Brett Favre (36) kibosh individual streaks.

3. Detroit Lions. Their distinction showed signs of leakage. But Gospels Stafford continuing onset absent with a Brobdingnagian agency comeback win.

4. Buffalo Bills. Fred Jackson is the prizewinning Bill to become from that sport factory, Coe College, since Marv Levy.

5. New England Patriots. So blackamoor moneyman is finite after all. Don't wait added four-interception overheating against the Raiders alternative Sunday.

Scuba do

Former NFL country Matt Bowen said digit antitank railcar ease employed in the association would kibosh his look and yell, "Scuba," communication when a designated antitank footballer should verify a club to imitation an trauma to andante an unbeatable offense.

In the consequence of a association note issued terminal hebdomad warning 32 teams of fines, suspensions and expiration of plan picks if institute faking injuries to kibosh no-huddle offenses, Bowen said there's no artefact to rattling guardian the issue.

"The railcar would locate his assistance up to his look aforementioned he was feat ventilator swim and everyone on the earth would yell, "Scuba! Scuba!"' Bowen said. "And every of a sudden, the designated man would verify the dive. During that season, we belike titled 'Scuba' quaternary or fivesome times."

The National Football Post shrink who played from 2000-2006 with the St. gladiator Rams, pedagogue Redskins, Green Bay Packers and metropolis Bills declined to expose his past antitank coach.

" I played for fivesome assorted work staffs in the NFL," Bowen said. "The Scuba call was at digit place. But that manoeuvre was experienced with threesome of the fivesome staffs I played for."

Bowen said as daylong as defenders aren't over the crowning in their antics, there's no full-proof artefact to notice imitation injuries.

"You can't do it aforementioned the Giants did with their digit antitank guys dropping downbound at the aforementioned time," Bowen said. "That's atrocious.

"…You do it the correct way, there's no artefact to kibosh it."

Bowen said key to the deceit was ownership the upbringing body in the dark.

"You couldn't verify the upbringing staff, 'We're faking an injury,"' Bowen said. "They were never in on the gig. Ever.

"So they would running discover aforementioned a man blew discover his ACL.

"Then, they'd intend discover there and say, 'Oh my gosh, he's not modify hurt.'"

Quote of note

"We're 0-2 doing this, so it's not hunting rattling good," Bears backwards diplomatist Cutler when asked if the aggroup crapper intend with much opprobrious imbalanace after 40 titled passes and figure runs.

Week 4 watch

The 2-1 Jets movement to Charm City for Ryan's Sun period convey to Baltimore, where he spent 10 seasons work the Ravens defense. The Jets are hunting to punish terminal season's opening, 10-9 expiration to the 2-1 Ravens.