Austin Gayle

And the Bears defense, you can kind of already start writing the gamer being like, Bears defense is a huge letdown.

This is why they lost.

They need to fix the defense, blah, blah, blah.

How they stepped up in the second half and now going against this Rams team where like they're going to need to have a similar performance, I think, to stay in this game with the cold, with the weather.

I don't know.

I think I'm just backing the Pope and the Bears in this one.

Oh, you're on the Bears too?

If they were on the road in LA, I don't think I'm siding with the Bears.

It's in Chicago, in the cold.

I think you have this advantage.

And if...

our predictions are true.

Seattle wins as a big favorite over the Niners at home and the Bears win this game.

I don't think I'm picking the Bears to go win in Seattle and go to the Super Bowl.

I think the Bears would need to stay at home to get a chance to go to the Super Bowl.

Like, I mean, the Rams have been a disaster on special teams for like pretty much the last like two or three years and going to be outside in Chicago trying to get this done.

The special teams, like, I don't know if it's like a blocked punt like we saw last week, but I do think it's going to show up where like, oh no, he kicked it out of bounds in a bad spot.

Now the Bears are starting on the 40 or a missed kick, a missed PAT, that kind of stuff, that kind of voodoo that plays into the Pope's hands.

Like,

I think it's it has to be a part of the conversation because I don't think you fire Mike McDaniel at this point, you know, belatedly.