Ben Johnson has made the Bears-Packers rivalry personal | Take The North
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How has Ben Johnson impacted the Bears-Packers rivalry?
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You know, and it is personal. It is. I mean, with the stuff going back and forth, this is the playoffs, man. This is money, literally money. You know what I mean? This is guys get extra checks, get a nice little bonus for winning these games. It's about getting to the Super Bowl. So it is personal. And that was made very clear by Tremaine Edmonds. It was made very clear by Kevin Byard, like I said, and many of the players in that locker room. One thing I wonder about about Ben Johnson with this. Like, it's a fluid situation. We are learning Ben Johnson every single week. We are learning more about him, whether it's taking the shirt off or F the Packers, what moves this guy or airing out his team after the finale loss to Detroit.
I do wonder, like, when the players go home to their respective families, to their wives, their girlfriends, their kids, like, do the wives, are they like... At some point in time, are they like... Is he okay? And I can imagine the players being like, I think so. I think so. He's a little bit crazy, but it's a good crazy, and he's our crazy. I mean, I'm sure the players are still to some degree, and I mean this in the best possible way, still trying to figure out the unpredictable nature of Ben Johnson's emotions. I think why they love him at this stage is because he's so genuine, right? And so every emotion that he expresses is genuine, and you can feel that every single day. And you heard it in that Tremaine Edmonds club.
They're looking at him and going, man, he's got a little swag about himself here. He's really feeling this again. And again, it's not manufactured, which is what guys rally around. And so, look, it's crazy here. I dug up this stat. The Bears on Saturday night scored their third win over the Packers in 370 days. prior to that surge, you would have had to go back to 2013 to find the previous three victories. All right. So the reason that this rivalry has an edge to it again is because the bears are back. The bears are winning. The bears are a successful team that has put their fingerprints back on this rivalry. That's what creates the edge first and foremost. And then you get the chance to, to pour the kerosene on the fire that you create after you win a little bit and you serve notice to them that as Caleb Williams said, well,
we're here and we're not going anywhere for a little while. And so that's the fun part of this, is that the Bears are genuinely competitive, and you can feel that shift in the momentum of the entire rivalry. I also ran these numbers in the post-Mike Ditka era.
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