I've been saying it all year, the Bears are a good team and prior to week 17, I said they were better than us. Others argued, even though they had more games won and had beaten us.

I think right now the teams are about even. I'm hoping the best team wins and I feel the Packers edge the Bears.

If the Packers pressure Cutler often and rattle his cage I'm confident the Packers will win. I think our offense is able to find holes in the cover 2 and nullify the pressure with quick dump off screens or quick slant passes. I'm also interested in seeing how James Starks does.

"Greg C." wrote:

I'm not seeing the blowout that others are, though. We will have to sweat this one out right till the end, but I think the Packers will win it.

"Greg C." wrote:

That surprised me too. I was also surprised to learn that their rushing offense was 22nd in the league, just two spots better than the Packers. I had heard that Matt Forte had a good year, but I guess a lot of that was receiving yardage, and they don't get many rushing yards from their other backs.

Special teams is where the Bears can kill us. Masthay did an excellent job keeping the ball away from Hester last time. Can he do it twice in a row? I think that will be very difficult.

An odd thing about the Packers is that even though they have advanced to the conference championship game, they have nobody on their roster who has any kind of clue how to return a kickoff. For punt returns, Tramon Williams is below average but very competent. Kickoff returns have been an adventure, though. Shields hasn't panned out as we hoped he would.

"Kingkoopa" wrote:

If they could not get touchbacks in a domed stadium they will not get TB in Chicago. Look for more pop up kicks around the 10 or 15 yard line.

"wpr" wrote:

There's no wind in a dome, how does that factor into your statement?

:P

"wpr" wrote:

A little cocky are we?

"tonyagnese" wrote: