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Thank You For Spending Your Season With Us At Windy City & 2nd City Gridiron!

The staff of Windy City Gridiron and 2nd City Gridiron would like to take this opportunity to thank each and every one of you for joining us for the 2025 season! It was one heck of a ride! The Chicago Bears, under the on-the-field direction of Ben Johnson and a great coaching staff, led Caleb […]

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Bear & Balanced: The Chicago Bears Will Be Back

Like most fans, I wasn’t ready for the Chicago Bears’ season to come to an end. This has been an incredibly fun ride full of ups and downs, and the Divisional playoff game against the Los Angeles Rams provided more of the same. Watching the replay today stung because there were so many missed opportunities […]

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Bears vs. Rams Game Balls: 2025 Campaign Ends In Close OT Loss

The 2025 Chicago Bears season has come to an end. Sure, it didn’t end with a championship, but it was a season that we won’t soon forget. An 11-6 regular season record, an NFC North division title, a Wild Card round victory over the Green Bay Packers to end our rival’s season, and a down […]

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Report: Kansas City Chiefs likely to hire Eric Bieniemy

According to a report from the NFL Network’s Tom Pelissero, the Kansas City Chiefs intend to hire current Chicago Bears running backs coach Eric Bieniemy as their new offensive coordinator. It was reported that the Chiefs asked permission to interview Bieniemy earlier today, and with the familiarity he has with the organization — he coached […]

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Chicago Bears Divisional Round Notes: We Went For It

The Chicago Bears hosted the Los Angeles Rams for the right to travel to Seattle for the NFC Championship game on the line, the final game before Super Bowl LX. As anyone who has watched the Bears this season would expect, it came down to the wire in an overtime battle. The Bears may not […]

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10 Bears Takes: Dream Season Ends in Divisional Round Thriller

The dream of a season for the Chicago Bears carried on another week with their toughest test on Sunday night against the Los Angeles Rams. For many fans, basking in the glory of one of the most impressive comeback wins in recent memory was enough to get them through the week and into Divisional Round […]

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Bears vs Rams: Inside the Snap Counts, Stats, and the Disapointment

Last night, the Chicago Bears’ season came to an end with a disappointing 20- 17 overtime loss to the Los Angeles Rams. While our fanbase is probably still hurting, I hope we can all reach a place of positivity at some point, because this was a magical season that should be celebrated. There’ll be no […]

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2026 Bears mock draft: 7-round predictions after playoff loss

The Bears’ 2025-26 season came to an end on Sunday, as their 20-17 overtime loss to the Rams in the Divisional Round eliminated them from the playoffs. It was an entertaining season from start to finish, and though expectations were surpassed in Ben Johnson’s first year as the team’s head coach, it’s still painful to […]

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Bears updated 2026 NFL Draft order: Finalized 1st-round pick after playoff exit

Wait ‘til next year is a sports cliché that often rings hollow, but with a good core of players in place for the Chicago Bears, and Ben Johnson and his coaching staff completing just year one in the Windy City, the 2025 season feels like the beginning of something special. There’ll be roster turnover among the […]

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The Bear’s Den, January 19, 2025

THE DAILY SPONGIE SPECIAL BEARSSSSSS Sunday Night Football: Rams beat Bears 20-17 in overtime Close but no cigar. Bears’ grades are in. How did they do against the Rams? About as you would expect. Bears QB Caleb Williams forces overtime with ‘ridiculous’ pass, but Rams win 20-17 It was absolutely nuts, but shout out to […]

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The Bears came up short, but Caleb Williams wowed the NFL again

It wasn’t his best game with a career high three interceptions, but Caleb Williams was 23 of 42 with 257 yards passing, with two touchdowns, and 40 yards on five rushes, and he nearly did the improbable again. His last touchdown, a ridiculous fourth-down scramble, then fadeaway to Cole Kmet, made everyone stand up and […]

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Divisional Round ends in heartbreak as the Rams ends Bears’ magical season

The Los Angeles Rams beat the Chicago Bears, 20-17 in overtime, ending Chicago’s magical run in Ben Johnson’s inaugural year on the sidelines. The story of the game before kickoff was the Bears’ left side of the offensive line, with All-Pro left guard Joe Thuney kicking outside to left tackle and Jordan McFadden getting his […]

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Chicago Bears vs. Los Angeles Rams Divisional Playoff Game Discussion

The Chicago Bears host the Los Angeles Rams for their first playoff meeting in 40 years. We all know how that game went, so hopefully the Football Gods are smiling down on Soldier Field today to send the Bears shuffling on to the NFC Championship in Seattle! This will be your open thread to talk […]

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Bears vs Rams Inactives: Braxton Jones will not play

Playoff football is back AGAIN at Soldier Field (that’s fun to type) as the Chicago Bears take on the Los Angeles Rams, and each team has just announced its inactive players list for the game. But first, the big news about the offensive line: All-Pro left guard Joe Thuney will kick out and start at […]

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UPDATE: Bears expected to make a major offensive line move vs Rams

Ozzy Trapilo’s season-ending patellar tendon injury couldn’t have come at a worse time for the Chicago Bears and their offensive line. The rookie’s solid play had locked down a troublesome position for the Bears opposite All-Pro tackle Darnell Wright, and his loss last weekend against the Green Bay Packers puts Chicago in a rough spot […]

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WCG Sunday Livestream: Divisional Round – Chicago Bears vs Los Angeles Rams

Happy gameday, folks. For the first time in WCG Sunday Livestream history, the Chicago Bears have won a playoff game. Of course, a season of weird, crazy, unstable fourth-quarter comebacks required only the most weird, crazy and unstable comeback so far against a rival that has had the Bears’ number for the last 15 years, […]

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WCG Predicts: Chicago Bears vs Los Angeles Rams, Divisional Round

Hello, Chicago Bears Fans!  The Bears are into the divisional round after their amazing comeback victory over the Packers in the Wild Card game.  The Bears did suffer some injuries in that game, however, with Ozzy Trapilo and TJ Edwards out for the season.  There are rumors the Bears may push Joe Thuney out to […]

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NFL fans are picking the Rams to beat the Bears

We didn’t have a Chicago Bears-specific Reacts survey question here at Windy City Gridiron this week, but the national set of survey questions that SB Nation emailed out — sign up here to participate — asked fans to pick the winners in this weekend’s games. I’m not surprised by the results. The Los Angeles Rams had more wins […]

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Division Playoffs NFL TV Schedule, Live Game Message Board, and Fan Discussion

Last weekend’s Wild Card games were exciting, but only one game set the record for the most-streamed game in NFL history, with 31.6 million streams! That’s a lot of people who watched the Chicago Bears’ epic comeback against the Green Bay Packers, and probably a good indication that there’ll be even more streamed games in […]

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Colston Loveland’s Homefield Advantage

Counting the playoffs, Michigan product Colston Loveland leads all Chicago Bears in targets and receiving yards this season, and according to Sumer Sports, he’s the highest-rated rookie tight end in yards per route run. He’s also one of the top five of all tight ends in Total EPA. He just became the first rookie in […]

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Bears vs Rams Playoff: Live Story Stream Message Board and Fan Discussion

On Sunday, the Chicago Bears host the Los Angeles Rams with the winner advancing to the NFC Championship game. The Bears are coming off a dramatic come-from-behind win against the Packers, but the Rams also came from behind to beat the Panthers in their Wild Card game, thanks to a Matthew Stafford touchdown pass with […]

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