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Bears beat the Eagles in the regular season, and the Eagles beat the Rams.

49ers pull the upset, wow Philly played terrible. Lazy. Rams @ Bears.

Here we go. Well traveled, warm weather Rams playing at Soldier Field. This is going to be a shootout.

That is the best part, this is all still a work in progress, but the things Caleb needs to work on are correctable; he has the things you can't teach. Next year, in Year 2 of the offense is when Goff took off, and I would expect the same thing from Caleb. If they can get a few impact players on defense, this will be a perennial playoff team with real Super Bowl aspirations every year.

You are looking at the Rams offense, who only allowed 23 sacks. The Bears allowed 24. The Rams defense had 47 sacks, tied for 7th. Eagles had 42, tied for 12th. The Bears had 35. The Rams defense also had the 4th highest QB Pressure rate (26.3%), Eagles at 23.6% (13th). Rams defense also had 16 INT, Eagles only had 12.

That's amazing, what a game to be at. That 4th and 8 to Rome was bonkers. The entire season riding on one, play, with pressure in his face, rolling left, throws a perfect pass 35 yards to Odunze who is circled by defenders.

Next weekend is forecasted to be in the 20s. Even though Philly is used to it, most of their players are from the SEC, and they did not look like they wanted to play in the elements the last time the Bears played them. Rams were 5-4 on the road in the regular season, now 6-4. Eagles were 6-3 on the road. Stafford supposedly is 1-8 in bad weather games, but those are rain/snow. This would just be cold, but still notable. I would have to look into how both teams have done vs bad defenses (bottom half of league), because the Bears defense is going to be the deciding factor.

You are correct, SF wins, LAR comes to CHI. If PHI wins, they come to CHI. Pros and Cons to each: LAR - travel is in in the Bears favor. LAR just had to go to CAR, back home, and then back to CHI. They have the better QB. PHI - the Bears already beat them, PHI would have one less day of rest, but they are the Super Bowl champs.

We should've known it would play out like this. The Bears scored 0 in the first half of the last game, and 22 in the 2nd half and OT in the last game. This game it was 3 and 28. In the first game 3 pts in the first half, and 18 in the 2nd. So collectively, the Bears scored 6 pts in the first half in 3 games against the Packers and 68 in the 2nd half/OT. LOL.

25 4th quarter points are the 2nd most since the merger. Eagles scored 26 pts in the 4th quarter against the Saints in 1993, but they won 36-20, so it was more of a blowout than a comeback.

Terrible news on the injury front, Edwards will be fine, but Trapilo is probably done. His body is probably too big for that tendon, and only half the players come back from that type of injury. Most times, it is 2 year recovery, which would mean he would miss the next two seasons. So the Bears will need to address LT in the offseason.

The Bears didn't punt. In 10 drives, they had 3 TDs, 3 FGs, 2 INTs, and 2 ToDs. So 60% of the drives resulted in pts, and 30% in TDs. GB had 11 drives, they had 4 TDs, 2 Missed FGs, 4 Punts, and the EOG. So they scored on only 36% of their drives. If you hold an opponent to only 4 scoring drives, you typically win. The Bears won a game where they had no takeaways on defense and turned the ball over twice on offense. Something they rarely do on either side of the ball.

7th comeback win when trailing with under 2 minutes to go this season, most in NFL history.

This is one of those games that would make a front office make a move. LaFleur rode Aaron Rodgers coattails to pad his W-L record, then dumped him for Jordan Love. They have only been the 7th seed with Love as QB, and there is always an excuse. LaFleur is the reincarnation of Marty Shottenheimer. Shottenheimer had a .613 Win% as a HC in the regular season, but only won 5 and lost 13 in the post season. His teams only made the Conference Championship once in 13 playoff seasons, and lost that one. Without Rodgers, LaFleur is 37-30-1 in the regular season, and now is 1-3 in the playoffs, losing his last 3. Dating back to last season, including GB's playoff loss last season, GB is 9-11-1 in their last 21 games played. They lost 3 straight to end last season and 5 straight to end this season.

Wow, what a game. The script writers were on point with this one. Make it look desperate, then hit the climax and then the cliffhanger at the end. So much to unpack (no pun intended).