Bear down! By 7, to be precise! The Green Bay Packers and Chicago Bears met for the first time this season in a highly anticipated matchup at Lambeau Field, with first place in the NFC North on the line. After the Packers’ 28-21 victory, they now sit at 9-3-1 and currently hold the #2 spot in the NFC playoff picture. Let’s take a look at the winners and losers from a huge divisional matchup.

Winner: Jayden Reed

WELCOME BACK, BUDDY. The Packers did what they could this season without one of Jordan Love’s favorite targets, as he recovered from...

The Green Bay Packers are back at the top of the NFC North after their win over the Chicago Bears on Sunday. Before we start breaking down any analysis from this game, let’s take a look at the team’s snap counts to set the table for the week ahead. With some key players returning from injury, plus the Packers losing defensive tackle Devonte Wyatt, there were some changes to their depth chart this week.

We’ll break this down position-by-position. As always, the snap counts below are for each player’s offensive or defensive contributions. Special teams snaps are in parentheses.

Quarterback...

In a game with mental errors, missed plays on the ball, and what could have been a second-half collapse by the defense, Green Bay Packers cornerback Keisean Nixon redeemed himself in the best way possible on Sunday night.

The Chicago Bears were driving down the field looking to tie (or potentially win with a two-point conversion), when they decided to take a shot on 4th and 1 in the red zone. Instead of trying to run the ball, where the Bears had had success the entire second half, head coach Ben Johnson decided to call a play-action pass to take...

The Green Bay Packers are back where they should be atop the NFC North after their win over the Chicago Bears. they sit second in the NFC.

The Los Angeles Rams remain in first place after their win, moving to 10-3. The Seattle Seahawks tied them but they are in the same division and the Rams have a win over the Rams.

The Philadelphia Eagles are third in the NFC and they play on Monday night. They are going to stay in third place no matter what happens in that game against the Chargers.

The Tampa Bay Buccaneers fell to...

It was a back-and-forth affair, but the Green Bay Packers showed why they are the team to beat in the NFC North on Sunday afternoon. Green Bay defeated the Chicago Bears 28-21, getting a go-ahead touchdown from Josh Jacobs with under four minutes left and a game-sealing interception from Keisean Nixon in the end zone with just seconds left and the Bears threatening to tie the game.

With the win, the Packers improve to 9-3-1 on the season, taking over the top spot in the NFC North from the Bears, who fall to 9-4. Green Bay also moves into the...

The Green Bay Packers and Chicago Bears are duking it out for the right to hold the top position in the NFC North. While the Detroit Lions still have a slim chance of impacting the NFC North race, this will probably come down to the Packers and Bears, who are going to play their first of two games in three weeks on Sunday.

From an injury perspective, the Packers are out receiver Savion Williams and defensive end Lukas Van Ness. Offensive lineman Donovan Jennings and defensive tackles Quinton Bohanna and Nazir Stackhouse were healthy scratches for this game, the team...

I think the Green Bay Packers are better than the Chicago Bears in a vacuum. However, I can’t make myself fully optimistic about the Week 14 game because I keep coming back to the Carolina Panthers. The Panthers REALLY remind me of the Bears, especially on offense, and the Packers really struggled with the Panthers because they do one thing in particular well.

The Panthers have a smaller, mobile quarterback who isn’t particularly great at passing. The Panthers have a very Rome Odunze-like Tet McMillan. But most importantly, the Panthers have Rico Dowdle, and to a lesser extent, Chuba Hubbard....

On this fine Sunday afternoon, Green Bay Packers fans will need to wait a little longer to see their team play. The Packers’ big game against the Chicago Bears was flexed from a 12:00 noon Central Time start into the 3:25 PM window, giving it a much wider audience nationwide as the two teams battle for the NFC North lead. However, there are plenty of other big games going on in the early slate today, including two more that will decide the leaders in AFC divisions.

One of those games gets CBS’ top spot on their singleheader Sunday, as the...

For the first time in a long, long time, the Green Bay Packers and Chicago Bears will meet late in the season with the winner guaranteed to have the lead in the NFC North division. Today’s game, which the NFL moved from an early kickoff into the late afternoon slate, is the first such game (not including season openers) since Week 6 of the 2021 season, and it’s the first in November or later since Week 17 in 2013.

In 2021, the Packers came into their game at 4-1 with the Bears 3-2, meaning a Bears win would have put...

The Green Bay Packers had one more week before they had to make a decision to bring receiver Jayden Reed (shoulder/foot) up to the 53-man active roster, but the team elected to activate him from the injured reserve the day before they take on the Chicago Bears. On the injury report this week, Reed, who was a limited participant throughout the week, was listed by the team as questionable against the Bears. For what it’s worth, the staff had said in press conferences that Reed had not been fully cleared for return to games, but it’s possible that Reed cleared...

We’re finally at conference championship Saturday, when all the debates about who should be in or out of the playoff can finally end. All of the Power 4 have their championship games today, after most of the Group of 5 played their games last night.

Congrats to Tulane, James Madison, Kennesaw State and Boise State for winning their leagues. Kennesaw State is particularly shocking. They didn’t even join an FBS league until 2024, when they went 2-10 and 2-6 in Conference USA. This year, under new head coach Jerry Mack, the Owls posted a 10-3 record and went 7-1 in...

The Green Bay Packers defense is averaging less than one takeaway per game this season (0.9, 24th in the NFL) through 13 weeks, down one full point from last year (1.8, 6th in the NFL), suggesting that the regression hit and it hit hard. However, they have had five takeaways in their last three games, nearly doubling their takeaway rate (1.7 in the last three), suggesting the regression may be over.

No matter what the case may be, those takeaways will be crucial for one of the league’s top defenses heading into the final quarter of the season. While they...