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Welcome to the latest episode of Bears Over Beers! This week, join our hosts Ryan Droste and Bryan Orenchuk as they as they get you ready for week 17 of the 2025 Chicago Bears season! Grab some spiked egg nog (or some beer) and join the boys as they celebrate the Bears clinching their entry into the […]
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The Chicago Bears are playoff-bound. Ben Johnson has taken this team, in year one, from worst to potentially first, if they can win just one more game (or if Green Bay can lose one more game). The Chicago Bears are a flawed football team. Their defense gives up too many explosive plays, their special teams […]
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The Chicago Bears are officially in the playoffs for the first time in five seasons. It truly is a remarkable turnaround in their first season under Ben Johnson. The job he’s done transforming a locker room and building that was stuck in a cycle of mediocrity and losing. We knew the last regime wasn’t getting […]
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2) Finally, everyone can shut up about Drake Maye not having a 300-yard passing game. Not that he NEEDED a 380-yard game to prove how well he was playing this year for the 12-3 Patriots. But the box score watchers weren’t going to be satisfied until he did. Well, there you go: 380 and a […]
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The resurgent Chicago Bears have some new faces representing them on the NFC’s Pro Bowl roster this year. Center Drew Dalman, guard Joe Thuney, and safety Kevin Byard III will represent the Bears at the Pro Bowl Games this season, with the announcement coming just three days after the Bears clinched their first playoff berth […]
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Modern football is all about big plays and as a companion piece to the STEP Differential, I’m tracking the Bears big plays all year in this Infogram: Chicago Bears 2025 STEP Differential TrackerInfogram Remember that you can click into the tabs on the lower left to see the tally by player and you can hover […]
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The NFL regular season has just two games remaining, and in the process, the playoff race down the stretch has heated up. Coming into Week 16, two teams had clinched playoff spots, and before Sunday’s action, two more followed suit. During that chase, there were plenty of compelling games throughout the weekend. All in all, […]
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It was just last week when we were comparing a Caleb Williams-to-DJ Moore touchdown pass and catch to one of the most iconic plays in NFL history. Caleb’s touchdown pass in the Browns game mirrored Joe Montana’s iconic roll right, then throw to the back of the end zone, as Dwight Clark jumped up to […]
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THE DAILY SPONGIE SPECIAL BEARSSSSSS The Bear’s Den: December 22, 2025 Patrick Finley: Caleb Williams has officially arrived in the Bears-Packers rivalry The rookie quarterback shook off a slow start to deliver a signature performance, leading three consecutive scoring drives in the final minutes. Williams’ poise in the face of a double-digit deficit suggests the […]
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Five NFC teams have clinched a playoff spot, but only one team has its division locked up: the Philadelphia Eagles. There are still four teams vying for the number one seed: the three NFC West teams (Seahawks, Rams, and 49ers) and the Chicago Bears. Chicago’s path to number one would be to win out while […]
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It’s been quite the few days for the Chicago Bears. After an all-time thriller on Saturday night resulted in an improbable victory over the rival Packers, Ben Johnson’s team benefitted from another bizarre ending Sunday afternoon as the Pittsburgh Steelers managed to *narrowly* hold on for a victory over the Detroit Lions that clinched a […]
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Slow start to this one before the big finish helped Caleb to a nice stat line of 250 yards and two scores. The DJ Moore TD was his 6th of the season, tying him for the team lead with Rome Odunze. Jahdae Walker gets his first. Awesome stuff. Caleb sits at 3,400 yards and needs […]
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Coming into Week 16, the Chicago Bears had an opportunity to clinch a playoff spot with a win on Saturday night and a Detroit Lions’ loss on Sunday afternoon. For the first time in five seasons, Bears fans finally got to entertain playoff-clinching scenarios. Of course, their playoff future, at least in the moment, relied […]
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The Cardiac Bears do it again! Like many other games this season, the Chicago Bears 22-16 comeback win over the Green Bay Packers took years off all our lives, but wow. What a game! It will easily go down as one of the best regular season games in general and one of the best Bears-Packers […]
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THE DAILY SPONGIE SPECIAL BEARSSSSSS By the Numbers: Bears’ OT Win Over Packers ChicagoBears.com breaks down the key stats from Saturday night’s epic comeback, including the team’s franchise-record sixth win this season after trailing in the final two minutes and Chicago’s resilient scoring bursts late and in overtime. Bears Stun Packers 22-16 With Improbable Rally […]
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The (11-4) Chicago Bears get a cold-weather respite for their next game, but they have to fly out west to do so. On Sunday night, December 28, the Bears will be at Levi’s Stadium to take on the (10-4) San Francisco 49ers. The early weather look-ahead calls for a high of 51 and a low […]
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With the Lions’ loss to the Steelers on Sunday, the Chicago Bears have secured a spot in the 2025-26 NFL playoffs in Ben Johnson’s first season as the team’s head coach. It’s been an entertaining season from start to finish for the Bears, who have turned around from a 5-12 record last season to make […]
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The Chicago Bears haven’t seen Soldier Field that electric since the 2019 season opener against the Green Bay Packers. And ironically, much like the 2019 game (also against the Packers), the Bears were unable to score touchdowns through three quarters (and most of the fourth). But unlike that game six years ago, there was a […]
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An instant classic at Soldier Field, the Chicago Bears outlasted the Green Bay Packers to strengthen their grip on 1st place in the division and improve their chances at the 1 seed heading into the final two weeks of the season. Here are my notes from the massive game between the sport’s two biggest rivals: […]
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99.1%. That was the chance the Packers had to win with 3:27 left to play against the Bears last night, just after Green Bay had kicked its field goal to make the score 16-6. The war of attrition these two bitter rivals were fighting would soon be over, and the Bears could fall to 0-2 […]
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The Chicago Bears did it again. For the sixth time this season, they battled back to win a game, this time coming from 10 down with less than five minutes to play against the Green Bay Packers. In three minutes and four seconds, they went on an 11-play 43-yard drive that ended in a field […]
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More than any other current Chicago Bears player, DJ Moore understands the rivalry with the Green Bay Packers. He left it all on the field on Saturday night when he had one rush for 12 yards and five catches for 97 yards, including the 46-yard game-winner from Caleb Williams in one of the most improbable […]
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The Chicago Bears beat the Green Bay Packers, 22 to 16 in overtime! Chicago stays in second place in the NFC with the win. Chicago is at 97% to make the playoffs according to the New York Times playoff machine. For all the NFL postseason scenarios and the full Week 16 schedule, click here. NFC […]
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Good morning, folks. Sundays are just better when the Bears win on a Saturday night. Barely ten hours and some restless excited sleep later, I’m not sure that we quite will have the words for exactly how last night’s win against the Green Bay Packers happened, but among the words used will be “incredible,” “weird,” […]
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The NFL social media accounts gave us a gift by sharing highlights of the final moments of regulation and overtime in the incredible Chicago Bears’ 22-16 win over the Green Bay Packers. I’ve already rewatched this, and I’ll probably rewatch it a few more times, so enjoy. The Bears just beat their biggest rival on […]
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