We have said this all season: The Green Bay Packers are beating themselves. Well, on Sunday the Chicago Bears beat themselves, and the Packers got away with a 20-19 win at Soldier Field.

A win is a win, and you will take that. The 7-3 record gets them in a comfortable position to correct mistakes. But it's Week 11, and it's getting harder to project a huge improvement that needs to happen if they want to make noise in the postseason.

The linebacker rotation is awful

Give me one, one single reason for Quay Walker to still be a starting off-ball linebacker for the Packers. It's hard to comprehend why he is still playing over Edgerrin Cooper, Eric Wilson, and even Isaiah McDuffie at this point. He is an athletic freak, but he has never been good. Not in college, not in the NFL. At some point, he is who he is. That hasn't been enough, and the Packers have much better options to put on the field.

Yet, Quay Walker keeps playing, and keeps playing at a bad level. Late in the second quarter, he hit Roschon Johnson twice at the three-yard line. In the first one, Johnson was inches close to scoring, and he did score in the second one.

This one wasn't a great game for Cooper either, since he allowed Caleb Williams to scramble for several yards with some bad angles. But at least Cooper shows flashes too. Walker doesn't even do that.

Quay Walker had basically one positive play in the entire game, a solid coverage to force an incompletion on a throw from Caleb Williams to Keenan Allen.

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Not enough pass rush

The Packers couldn't create any type of four-man pressure, and it's been tough for the secondary to handle that. Until the last drive.

Caleb Williams had been pressured on 34% of his dropbacks throughout the season, and even in this favorable scenario the defensive front couldn't apply consistent pressure. Outside of a Brenton Cox (positive surprise of the game), Williams was comfortable in the pocket, or had a good lane to scramble and pick up easy yards.

Rashan Gary and Kenny Clark are two of the three highest-paid players on the defense, but by watching them play, you wouldn't guess. Their production this season has been underwhelming at best, and it's hard to get over that, especially when the gameplan wasn't as sound as it had been.

It changed when the Packers defense really needed to make something. Up one point in the final drive, Green Bay got two huge sacks with TJ Slaton and, guess what, Rashan Gary. But that wasn't enough.

The Bears transformed a 3rd & 19 in a sequence of big plays. Gladfully for the Packers, Karl Brooks blocked Cairo Santos' 46-yarder at the end.

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Everything at running back

It was a win, so let's talk about the good too. The Packers have all they need to run the football. Zach Tom has improved as a run blocker, the system in place is sound. But let's give some credit to the players who are frequently forgotten. The Packers running backs are so, so good.

Josh Jacobs is an elite player, and he's shown and showed again on Sunday how he can take over games with his ability to create yards after contact, but also with his power to carry heavy workloads.

But the Packers have a good depth as well. When Jacobs wasn't on the field, the Packers created some good plays with backups Emanuel Wilson and Chris Brooks — and we are not even considering that third-round rookie MarShawn Lloyd has barely played this year.

Josh Jacobs had 76 yards and a touchdown (4.2 yards per carry), Emanuel Wilson had 17 yards in two carries, and Chris Brooks had two catches for 13 yards, including a first-down conversion.

The offense was bad in the redzone, with a Jordan Love interception and a turnover-on-downs, but the unit moved the ball against a strong defense. They have to be more effective close to the endzone, however they did just enough against a good opponent.

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