Darnell Savage's two-pick night started in the film room

[Cheesehead]

The Packers' offense would score touchdowns off both Savage takeaways. Meanwhile, on the defensive series after Savage's first INT, Za'Darius and Preston Smith combined on a perhaps the Packers' biggest defensive play of the season.


After Za'Darius Smith stripped Trubisky of the ball on third-and-17 – recording his team-best ninth sack of the season in the process – Preston Smith recovered the ball and ran it 14 yards to the end zone, giving the Packers a commanding 27-3 lead.


All told, the Packers now have forced eight takeaways over the last four games.


"Obviously our defense coming up with some big plays," said quarterback Aaron Rodgers about the team's key to victory on Sunday. "Preston, I thought had a really good game; obviously around the ball, important plays. Z strip-sack, Savage with a couple of picks was excellent. We had our hands on a number of footballs."


There still were areas for the defense to clean up against the Bears, beginning with running back David Montgomery busting a 57-yard run on Chicago's second offensive play of the game. The defense, to its credit, held its ground in the red zone – forcing Chicago to settle for a 27-yard Cairo Santos field goal.


From there, the Bears struggled to muster much offense until the fourth quarter, when Chicago orchestrated two touchdown-producing drives (13 plays for 65 yards and 15 plays for 82 yards) to get within two scores of Green Bay's lead.


"You definitely care about it," said Savage of the late production. "That's more so a pride thing. You're always happy that you got the win but, at the same time, you're always looking to improve and see what didn't necessarily go as planned. That's definitely something we want to continue to focus on and continue to get better is finishing games the right way."