Packers to survive Bears on NFL Sunday Night Football?
The Chicago Bears ARE the team to beat in the NFC and these Green Bay Packers won’t stand a chance.
You read it, the Chicago Bears are THE team to beat in the weak NFC Conference. I know I know, we can make a case for the Dallas Cowboys or the New Orleans Saints but the fact of the matter is, the Bears have the most complete team in the NFC and here’s why.
In case you haven’t heard of it by now, the Chicago Bears win NFL Football games because of their defense. The Bears defense have that authority to shut down any NFL Football team, no matter how bleak the situation is.
Of course we all saw that when the Chicago Bears defense rallied from a huge 20-plus points deficit to beat the stunned Arizona Cardinals in the second half. This loss was disheartening for the Cardinals. They were looking quite good hovering around .500 then, but after what the Bears defense did to their rookie quarterback Matt Leinart, the Cardinals wasn’t the same since.
And who can forget the infamous ”the Bears are who we thought they were” line during that fateful post-game press conference? Now THAT was funny. Even funnier than defensive leader, Brian Urlacher, making any offensive lineman from the opposing team piss on his pants.
Special teams. Yep, these Chicago Bears have special teams that can score in bunches too. Wow, I never thought I’d be able to say that about the Bears special teams. Oh yeah, they have a rookie this season that goes by the name of Devin Hester.
The city of Chicago has a thing for athletes wearing No.23 and Bears No.23 Devin Hester is no different. After Michael Jordan, Chicago has now found a new messiah in the electrifying rookie.
Hester is excellent in punt returns. And with the rate the kid is doing, scoring TDs returning punts, opposing teams could be better off kicking onside kicks risking giving up the ball to these Bears in field goal range than kicking it all the way to the other end of the field, where Hester can return it for six points.
And of course, the Chicago Bears have the inconsistent Rex Grossman patrolling the offense. Grossman is terrible, and boy, do I mean terrible, in his worst games, but when Grossman is on fire, he is literally on fire.
Against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, Rex Grossman just became the very first Bears QB to go over the 300-yard mark passing in a single game and if Grossman can have that kind of performance every game, there is no beating the myth of the Chicago Bears.
God help the Packers on Sunday night.
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