Sometimes, a picture really does say a thousand words:

And that begins a tradition of this blog’s predecessor blogs that of course must carry on — a schadenfreude-filled look at how the media of the Packers’ main rivals, Da Bears and the Vikings, react to the Packers’ beating Da Bears or the Vikings.

For those who don’t get the headline reference, watch:

Back in the 1990s,when the Packers were getting good and the Bears were moving in the opposite direction, it was enjoyable to read, first in dead-tree version and then online, the Chicago media go off on the Bears after losing to the Packers. Unlike the Wisconsin media, which is only occasionally critical, the Chicago media seems to get its jollies ripping apart the Bears.

As for their other rivals, a Twin Cities sportswriter who is approximately 3,000 years old once referred to the Packers’ “lemon and spinach” uniforms, which made me post a question: What does that make the Vikings’ uniforms, bruises and pus?

The Tribune’s David Waugh began after the first quarter:

Thanks to Jay Cutler throwing an interception and the offense looking generally out of synch, I can only guarantee this after the Bears‘ first quarter against the Packers.

The orange jerseys won’t be the hardest thing to look at Sunday.

The Trib’s Steve Rosenbloom should give part of his pay for Sunday to his headline writer:

No, wait, balance doesn’t mean a bad passing game and a bad running game

… This was embarrassing for a second straight week. I mean, this is an NFL offense?

The Bears couldn’t run and couldn’t pass. There’s your balanced offense.

Cutler was a mess. He threw two interceptions that counted and one that was called back. When Cutler did have time to pass, he missed or the receivers flat dropped the ball.

And remember, this came against a Packers defense that was giving up more than 400 passing yards a game.

Bears offensive coordinator Mike Martz tried to run. For him, anyway. But the Bears couldn’t block it.

The Bears had 13 yards rushing, an average of 1.1 per carry. Don’t you get that much just by falling forward? …

The offense has to start all over. This isn’t even back to last season’s future. This is back to the start of the game’s creation. Lovie Smith needed to address his team after the game by saying, “Gentlemen, this is a football.’’

Sadly and obviously, the Bears can’t touch the Packers’ offensive talent, especially at wide receiver. In fact, the Bears don’t have a wideout who would dress for the Packers. Roy Williams can barely dress for the Bears, and Devin Hester apparently wants to amass as many penalties as receptions. …

I mean, name a Bears go-to play. Dare you.

OK, try this: Name a Bears go-to player. Dare you to do that, too.

Rosenbloom’s thought about the Bears’ WRINOs (Wide Receivers In Name Only) echoed mine during the game. The Packers’ fourth best wideout, James Jones, would be triple-covered if he played for Da Bears. The Bears let All-Pro center Olin Kreutz go to New Orleans, and traded tight end Greg Olsen, formerly one of the Bears’ most dangerous offensive weapons, to Carolina because Bears offensive coordinator Mike Martz apparently has little use for tight ends. In contrast, consider how the Packers use Jermichael Finley, who also was a first-round pick. And meanwhile, the Bears persist in the delusion that  Hester can be more than a kick returner.

CBSChicago.com’s Dan Bernstein agrees:

Jay Cutler remains a shaky collection of talents, still prone to too many hold-your-breath throws. The rigid offense of Mike Martz is complicated and possibly antiquated. Blocking is all but nonexistent for the run game and tenuous at best when a pass is called. …

But, really. Somebody get open.

And when you do, don’t try to catch the ball with your face, or let it ricochet off your sternum. Neither tactic is particularly productive.

This is the receiving corps that had coaches and executives so excited, this bargain-basement collection of shrimps, wimps and gimps? …

Man coverage or zone coverage notwithstanding, it seemed like even the completions were near-misses, near-drops or near-picks. This has to stop.

During the summer, Martz called Roy Williams an “elite” receiver, and predicted that he’d be good for 70-80 catches this year. Martz also, I believe, called the Ford Pinto “stylish and safe,” referred to “Blues Brothers 2000” as “a towering cinematic achievement — a great, great American film,” and described Hostess Sno-Balls as being “rich in antioxidants.”

The Chicago Sun–Times’ Rick Morrissey passes on an unbelievable statistic:

Someone suggested to Cutler that surgically removing all the things in the Bears’ game plan that aren’t working and adding more of the good things (whatever those are) might help.

“It’s so hit and miss in what we’re doing well and what we’re not doing well that I don’t even know where to begin,’’ he said.

Three games into the season, that’s the scary part if you’re a Bear or have an emotional investment in the team. Where do you begin with the problems on offense? The Bears rushed for 13 yards on 12 carries Sunday, their lowest rushing total in more than 50 years. It came a week after they ran the ball only 12 times, one a Cutler scramble.

Is it possible for an NFL team to win with an offense so imbalanced that it wobbles?

“We’re 0-2 doing this, so it’s not looking very good,’’ Cutler said.

It’s so bad that coach Lovie Smith would be happy if the Bears got off the bus racewalking. …

But bear in mind that the Packers’ defense had been shredded in the first two weeks of the season. Sunday was an opportunity for the Bears to forget about their embarrassing offensive performance in New Orleans. Instead, they dropped balls, overthrew passes and committed penalties in earnest. Cutler threw two interceptions and would have had another if not for offsetting penalties.

The Bears had three yards of total offense in the third quarter. …

Matt Forte rushed nine times for two yards, which is almost as impossible as it sounds.

The Sun–Times’ Rick Telander compares and contrasts, and finds Cutler, who is one year older than Aaron Rodgers, wanting:

Here’s the bad news, Chicago: Aaron Rodgers is less beaten up than Jay Cutler, more victorious than Jay Cutler, younger than Jay Cutler, better than Jay Cutler.

So how’s your future lookin’, Bears?

Rodgers, the 27-year-old Green Bay Packers quarterback (Cutler is 28), led his team to a 27-17 win Sunday over the bumbling Bears at Soldier Field, and that may have been the good news.

The bad is that this Rodgers kid beat the Bears in the NFC Championship Game last season, led the Packers to the Super Bowl title in February, has beaten the Bears six of the eight times he has started and may only be getting better.

Who put the Bears and Packers in the same division, anyway?

Sadly, Rodgers is a young 27, having whittled twigs on the Green Bay sideline for his first three years in the league, nodding off as Father Time himself, Brett Favre, took all the starts.

Cutler, on the other hand, is a dog that has been hit with the frying pan a few too many times. In his five years-and-change career, he has been sacked 157 times, including five times last postseason and 14 times in three games this September.

Rodgers, on the other hand, has been sacked 129 times in his seven seasons and only five times this season.

Enough of the health thing.

How about the talent thing?

Cutler has an amazing arm and good mobility, even if his brain is sometimes suspect.

But Rodgers looks like a Hall of Famer in the making.

The comparisons between Rodgers and his predecessor have mercifully ceased since Super Bowl XLV. But I’ve figured out one: Rodgers is Brett Favre without the bonehead mistakes. Their ability to throw seems comparable. Since his first two years, Rodgers hardly gets sacked (though that is not always the quarterback’s fault), and he rarely throws interceptions; in fact, he hardly ever seems to force the ball where it shouldn’t go. Favre led the universe in almost-interceptions; he threw so hard that defensive players would drop interceptions or be hit between the numbers and be unable to hang on. That made Favre entertaining to watch, and certainly Favre made ordinary Packer teams better. It would be a master-of-the-obvious statement to say that Rodgers was the right draft pick, so I’m not going to say that.

As for Cutler, he probably in his heart of hearts envies Rodgers’ better offensive line and the Packers’ clearly superior receivers. The run game gets more mention than perhaps it needs to in today’s pass-to-daylight NFL. The bigger issue seems to be the Bears’ WRINOs who can’t consistently get open or make plays, and the offensive line that doesn’t seem to be able to run-block or pass-protect very well. And lack of talent is not the quarterback’s fault; it’s the general manager’s fault.

And now Twitter brings us some breaking news, first from tight end Tom Crabtree:

Sad to see all these folks in Chicago missing every finger except the middle. I think they’re trying to wave to us.

Breaking Headlines – Jay Cutler sacked three times on the way home from Bears/Packers game http://t.co/uppAgo3x