Chicago Bears: Beating the Packers a Big Step Forward This Season

After two embarrassing showings in the first three weeks of the season, the Chicago Bears’ resiliency helped them turn things around. They won two games in a row and hope their momentum continues throughout the season.

The Chicago Bears may lack the things that most contenders have, but they have something that no other team has more of — resiliency. They dealt with two embarrassing games in their first three games. Somehow, they dealt with their shortcomings to come out on top in their last two games.

After winning those two games, the Bears find themselves with a record of 3-2 and in second place in the NFC North. They have a huge game coming up this week against the leaders of the division, the hated Green Bay Packers.

On paper, this looks like an easy game for the Packers. However, last week’s game looked like an easy game for the Las Vegas Raiders. The Bears went out there, though, and just outworked them. Suddenly, the Raiders looked up and saw a big “L”.

The Bears have something the Packers don’t have — momentum. The Packers suffered through a tough, overtime game against the Cincinnati Bengals. Their offense still did well, gaining 466 total yards. They had trouble with their kicking game, however. Mason Crosby missed three field goal attempts and an extra point attempt.

Through it all, though, the Packers came away with the road victory. Now they have to get another road win, this time in Chicago.

Bears want to keep the good times rolling

The Bears are feeling good after two straight wins. Their wins haven’t been pretty, but it doesn’t matter when the results are wins. They feel they can have a big season if they continue their momentum. Safety Tashaun Gipson knows that they’ve put up some stinkers. He feels, however, that the team is mature enough to know a season has its ups and downs. They are on the upswing and want to keep it that way.

Yeah, we put out some bad football. But we’re mature enough to understand this is a long season. It’s not how you start; it’s always how you finish, and that’s our mindset right now. We’re starting to catch our stride. There are little things we can clean up right now obviously, but we’re catching our stride and it’s exciting for us.

Their win in Week 4 was tainted because, well, it was against the winless Detroit Lions. Last week’s game was more impressive because it came against a pretty high-powered Raiders offense. Now, if they win this week…

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Beat the Packers and the narrative changes

Beating the Packers this week would really open some eyes. Green Bay is 4-1 and, other than their Week 1 lackluster performance, the offense is tremendous. Keep in mind, also, that Aaron Rodgers owns the Chicago Bears more than the McCaskey family does. He owns a 20-5 record against them. In those games, he has 6,010 passing yards, 55, touchdowns, and only 10 interceptions.

Beating the Packers is the one thing Chicago Bears fans want to see. If they go 2-14, those two wins better be against the Packers. Beating them this week makes their confidence soar even higher.

Remember when the Bears hired former head coach Lovie Smith. In his opening press conference, he stated that his top goal was to beat the Packers. The Bears came off of a 7-9 2003 season. In Smith’s first season, they finished 5-11. However, his team beat the Packers the first time the Bears played them. Despite having a worse record than the season before, the fans loved that Smith called out the Packers in his press conference then went out and beat them in just his second game as head coach.

Now, if Justin Fields can beat the Packers his first time facing them he won’t have to buy a beer in Chicago. He’ll have the fans eating out of his hand.