Karl Brooks’ block delivers on Rich Bisaccia’s pregame … prediction?

Rich Bisaccia's wording — as reported by coach Matt LaFleur, anyway — makes it hard to know if the Green Bay Packers veteran special-teams coordinator predicted the future or not.

Was it a premonition? A hunch? An expectation? A demand? A guarantee?

All we know for certain is this: Defensive lineman Karl Brooks blocked Chicago Bears kicker Cairo Santos' potential game-winning 46-yard field-goal attempt as time expired in the Packers' 20-19 win on Sunday at Soldier Field.

And leading into the game, Bisaccia guaranteed it would happen. Maybe.

"Rich said to our team last night, 'I will not understand if we come out of this game without a block, whether field goal or PAT,'" LaFleur recounted to reporters, referring to the Packers' Saturday night team meeting at their downtown Chicago hotel. "So, great job from our special-teams coaches."

Well, while it was a great job by Bisaccia and assistants Byron Storer and Kyle Wilber finding a weakness in the Bears' protection unit, an even better job by Brooks, who barged between offensive lineman Matt Prior and long-snapper Scott Daly to deflect the ball with his left middle finger.

"They ran the same formation (earlier in the game) and I just got penetration and just wanted it more, got a hand up," said Brooks, who also blocked a kick as a rookie at Minnesota last season. "It was cool. It was a good experience."

Elementary for Watson Having seemingly been the forgotten man on offense during the first half of the season, Christian Watson was a game-changer Sunday.

Quarterback Jordan Love said the plan heading into the week was to get Watson more involved, and the offense did just that — to the tune of a career-high 150 receiving yards on four catches.

All four of Watson's receptions — of 17, 25, 48 and 60 yards — were explosive plays. The 60-yarder, which came on second-and-6 from the Green Bay 26-yard line, saw him make a lunging catch at the Packers' 46, then get up and run another 30 yards to the Chicago 14 to set up the game-winning touchdown.

"Honestly, every day I'm just thankful to be a part of this and playing football at this level," Watson said. "These are the type of the games I've been dreaming of since I was a kid, so I'm super grateful to be able to play a game like this."

Red-zone woes continue The Packers offense clearly hasn't solved its red-zone issues, but the unit did just enough to win.

Entering the game ranked 29th in the 32-team NFL having turned just 47.1% of their trips inside opposing 20-yard lines into touchdowns, and facing the Bears' No. 1 ranked red-zone defense, the Packers were 3-for-5 on the day — with two colossal red-zone failures: Love's interception when he airmailed a first-half throw intended for tight end Tucker Kraft, and LaFleur's fourth-and-goal decision to go for it, with Love scrambling for a 5-yard gain but being stopped short of the goal line.

But running back Josh Jacobs had a 7-yard third-quarter TD run, and Love scored on a quarterback sneak with 2 minutes, 59 seconds to play to give the Packers the winning margin.

"We left a couple plays out there," Love said. 'Obviously, the interception in the red zone did not help us. You want to put up more points. You want to finish a drive with touchdowns."

Cox delivers In the wake of the trade-deadline deal that sent veteran defensive end Preston Smith to the Pittsburgh Steelers, second-year man Brenton Cox was among the younger players expected to get more opportunities because of Smith's departure.

But no one could have expected what Cox did Sunday — not even Cox himself.

Cox, who played just four defensive snaps as an undrafted rookie free agent last season, delivered a sack of Bears quarterback Caleb Williams, stuffed running back D'Andre Swift for a 3-yard loss on the Bears' first possession and later had another QB hit on Williams in his first extended defensive action.

"It means everything," said Cox, whose mother, aunt and girlfriend all attended the game. "It means a lot to me to have them see me play and getting back to old times, making plays.

"It feels good just knowing I've been working hard and it's paying off."

Extra points Safety Evan Williams (hamstring) and cornerback Jaire Alexander (knee), both of whom missed the pre-bye Nov. 3 loss to Detroit with their injuries, were active Sunday. But Alexander, who was supposed to be on a limited snap count, departed after less than a dozen snaps and was ruled out at halftime. ... Jacobs finished with 134 total yards from scrimmage, running 18 times for 76 yards and a touchdown and catching four passes for 58 yards on five targets. "I really didn't like my first couple of runs, (but) it made me like more hungry in the game to want to make up for it." ... Safety Xavier McKinney threw his helmet and later a Microsoft Surface tablet on the sideline after failing to stop Swift on his go-ahead third-quarter touchdown run. "Obviously, we started out strong and then they moved the ball," McKinney said. "But, at the end of the day, we were able to go out there and make the last play."