Where is the love?

I just have one question. I will start by saying that the packers are a good team now. But at the begining of the year, they were getting lucky. I should know lucky because I am a bears fan and we were lucky at times last year. But the bears had to earn the respect they got from football ysts and fans, and to me it seems that after the first 3 weeks, the packers were all of the sudden the team to beat in the NFC along with the packers. I am just wondering why the packers got the love so fast and the bears had to earn it all througout the whole 2006 year?