Windy City Gridiron
It’s November 19th, and your Chicago Bears are in first place in the NFC North.
I repeat, it’s November 19th, and your Chicago Bears are in first place in the NFC North.
“They haven’t beaten anybody.”
“They are the luckiest team in the league.”
“Caleb Williams stinks.”
Just let the hate wash over you like a warm shower. Embrace it.
They hate us because they ain’t us.
I have two words for the people who just want to knock the 2025 Chicago Bears: “Shove it! (We toned it down from what you were expecting.)
I don’t know what’s going to happen next week, next month, or next year. But I know that right now, this Chicago Bears team knows how to win football games. We will see what’s in store for this team moving forward.
I’ve talked about it here, and I’ve talked about it on my podcast. 8 NFC teams are vying for 7 NFC playoff spots. Will the Bears be left out? Will it be the Packers? The Seahawks? The 49ers?
Nobody knows right now, but the Chicago Bears will have their opportunity to prove they belong in the NFC playoffs in December. The narrative that they can’t beat anybody and that they are simply lucky is going to either be confirmed or proven inaccurate.
The Bears have to play the Eagles, the Packers twice, the Lions, and the 49ers. Even if they beat the Steelers and the Browns, that will get them to 9 wins; they will need to win at least 1 of those other 5 teams to secure a playoff spot.
Haters can miss me with their narratives. I’m enjoying this ride, and I hope every other Bears team is too. Don’t worry about them earning respect, don’t worry about them proving themselves, don’t worry about any of it. That will come in due time, and if, by chance, it doesn’t come this year and the Bears finish 9-8 and stumble down the stretch, of course it’ll be disappointing, but it’s just year one of the Ben Johnson experience and the Chicago Bears will, at a minimum, show the league that they are headed in the right direction and people will be even more bullish on the in 2026.
Now, there’s one other thing we need to talk about, and that is this week’s matchup against the Pittsburgh Steelers.
Get Mason Rudolph the hell off the football field, bring me Aaron Rodgers.
Do the Bears’ chances to win this game go up if Rudolph is out there instead of Rodgers? Almost certainly.
Do I care? Definitely not.
You have to understand, I dislike Aaron Rodgers. In fact, I loathe him.
I don’t think I’ve ever cheered against an individual more in my life than that man, and you know what? I come up on the wrong side of those games time and time again.
It’s not just that he beats the Bears all the time; it’s who he is. And if Aaron Rodgers plays this...
