Packers vs. Bears 2014 final score: 3 things we learned from Green Bay’s 38-17 win

So much for getting payback against the Green Bay Packers for last year's postseason-prohibiting loss. The Chicago Bears were throttled at home by their division rivals, allowing the Pack to score 24 points unanswered points and pull away in the second half for a 38-17 win.

It was a 48-yard Aaron Rodgers-to-Randall Cobb touchdown that ended the Bears' playoff hopes in Week 17 last season, and it was that same connection that undid them on Sunday. Rodgers found Cobb twice during the Packers scoring surge.

After trading scores at a frantic pace through the first half, the Packers took a lead they wouldn't relinquish when Rodgers hit Cobb for a 22-yard score with just over a minute left in the second quarter. The Bears responded by driving downfield, but Alshon Jeffery was stopped inches short of the goal line on the final play of the half. The game was all Packers from that point on.

Rodgers had more passing yards in the first half than he did in the entire game against the Lions, eventually ending his day with 302 yards and four touchdowns. Cobb, who called his play leading up to this game "embarrassing," broke out for seven receptions and 113 yards to go with his scores, and Jordy Nelson was, well, Jordy Nelson (two touchdown grabs).

This crazy-impressive 34-yard touchdown to Davante Adams was called back for a hold, but it gives you an idea of just how dialed in Rodgers was.

2) Jay Cutler still has a turnover problem.

Cutler was in the midst of his longest ever run without an interception before things came unglued in the third quarter. Two picks led directly to 14 Packers points, and Cutler had a potential third interception overturned when replay showed the ball slipping through the hands of Tramon Williams.

The second pick might not have been Cutler's fault -- Brandon Marshall ran a double-move when Cutler was expecting a hitch -- but the first was simply a case of forcing the throw. Ignoring the fact that Williams was playing inside coverage, Cutler tried to fit a pass into Josh Morgan and had it tipped into the arms of Clay Mathews.

Ok, so we already knew that (Green Bay came in ranked No. 30 in run defense). But the point was reiterated Sunday as Matt Forte eviscerated them for 122 yards. Despite missing a starting guard and center, the Bears generally had their way up the middle, where the season-ending injury to nose tackle B.J. Raji has left the Packers undersized.