Matt Verderame

The Bears have had pockets of being good, but by and large haven't been that good.

I also think this is a real interesting measuring stick game.

The Bears have won all these games up until the Philly game, to their credit.

The Philly game matters.

But all these games against the Bengals and the Giants, and all these games where they're barely winning, like beating J.J.

McCarthy.

And it's like, okay, yeah, you're winning, but as Ben Johnson himself said this week, it's kind of in spite of your quarterback.

It's kind of in spite of your passing game.

Like, he's not playing well if you watch these games.

And the Philly game, they win.

And fair or not, I still think there are some people who go, yeah, sure, but Philadelphia is like, the entire city is apparently ready to fire the offensive coordinator.

Like, I don't know what that means.

This is a huge game in the sense that if the Bears win this game, they're probably going to win the division.

They're in the driver's seat.

Or is it the Packers win this game?

I think you'd certainly say they're in the driver's seat to win the division.

Yeah, they've got to go back in a couple weeks and play at Chicago, but...

You look at the Packers and say, okay, well, they'll have swept Detroit, and they'll be having the early win on Chicago.

They still play Minnesota.

If you're the Packers, this is an opportunity.