Windy City Gridiron
1. Anyone else finding themselves doing ordinary household tasks or walking around and just saying, “Damn, that’s CRAZY!” for no reason? I’ve probably done that about 30 times in the last three days because DAMN, THAT’S CRAZY. The Bears really did that on Saturday night. For real. It happened. Walked down the Packers like they were Kendrick Lamar in the Drake beef. Like Michael Myers in every Halloween movie. Again. Forget Kings of the North. The Bears are the Demons of the North.
2. If/when Caleb Williams gets his statue outside of…wherever the Bears end up playing in the future, it’ll be of that 4th-and-8. Unless he does something even wilder in a Super Bowl, that throw will end up one of the most memorable of his entire career, and he’s only two years in. It was that insane. The greatest I’ve ever seen from a Bears quarterback in my life, by far. To think he can just bust that out whenever he wants and hit that shot is absurd. I can’t believe this is our life.
3. I don’t want to hear one more damn person complaining about Ben Johnson talking about how much he hates the Packers or why he isn’t nicer to Matt LaFleur. Go find a new hobby if sports rivalries upset you that much. If you’re not constantly on go like Luther Burden III, this might not be for you.
4. As if this first weekend had gone any better, we also got to watch Aaron Rodgers potentially go out sad against the diabolical Houston Texans defense. Not that I blame the guy; as someone put it on social media, they’re like a pack of velociraptors with machine guns. But don’t expect us to feel sad about watching him throw a pick-six to seal the loss. In fact, run that back.
5. It’s kind of insane to think four of the six games this past weekend were absolute barn-burners. Aside from the Pats’ win over the Chargers and that Texans demolition job, they all came down to a final possession, with the fourth quarters turning into shootouts on par with the OK Corral. The viewership stats from the Wild Card Round might go off.
6. Matthew Stafford seems all but set to become MVP this year (though I don’t agree with it, personally). And his comeback win over the upstart Carolina Panthers was impressive, of course. But why do people like Matt Leinart feel the need to argue Stafford should be a top-five QB—or even top-10–all-time if he wins another Super Bowl? Where is this coming from? He’s never even been a consensus top-five quarterback throughout the entirety of his career, and we’re supposed to entertain bumping someone like Joe Montana or Drew Brees for him? The Super Bowl argument would certainly cement first-ballot Hall-of-Fame status for him, but having a lot of stats and two rings isn’t enough to put him in the top-10 guys of all time to me. Top-25? Then, we’d be...
