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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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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 […]
22 days ago | 4 reads
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 […]
22 days ago | 3 reads
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, […]
22 days ago | 1 read
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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1.) 2006 Bears vs. Seahawks: The Goulden leg sends us to the NFC Championship for the first time since 1985 An old adversary came to town on January 14th, 2007. Mike Holmgren, the former head coach of the Green Bay Packers of the 90’s who combined with Brett Favre to torment the Bears so, came […]
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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 […]
22 days ago | 3 reads
On her latest Making Monsters podcast, Taylor Doll is joined by former Chicago Bears defensive end Corey Wootton, now of CHGO Bears. They chat about the loss of linebacker T.J. Edwards and what that means for the defense at the position. They discuss the uptick in pressure against Green Bay and dive into what the secondary […]
23 days ago | 2 reads
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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As the reactions to Ben Johnson’s now-infamous handshake with Matt LaFleur and “F— the Packers” postgame chat made its rounds this week, pundits made sure to let us know that it wasn’t just the Packers who were mad about Johnson’s perceived slight toward LaFleur and his team. It’s the whole crew of Los Angeles Rams […]
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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 […]
23 days ago | 3 reads
Last week, I opened my Bears-Packers How to watch article with this sentence. “Get ready for either one of the greatest Saturday nights of your Chicago Bears fandom or one of the worst.” It was one of the greatest. The stakes are even higher this Sunday in the Divisional round vs the Los Angeles Rams, […]
23 days ago | 1 read
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 […]
23 days ago | 2 reads
We have to wait all weekend to finally watch the Chicago Bears play their divisional round playoff game. The Bears are scheduled to play the Los Angeles Rams in the final game of the weekend, with kickoff set for 5;30 p.m. CT. We know it’s going to be cold. Freezing even. Really, really cold. But […]
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The Chicago Bears host the Los Angeles Rams on Sunday, and the final injury reports for each team are due today. Just like in the regular season, these reports could be added to over the next couple of days, but if a player is ruled out, he’s out for the game. For the Bears, that […]
24 days ago | 4 reads
The Chicago Bears have reached the Divisional Round of the NFL Playoffs, where they will welcome the LA Rams to Soldier Field. Last week, we said we liked a high-scoring game, and that’s exactly what we got with almost 60 points being scored between the two teams. Last week, we went 2-1 on our prop […]
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“Daddy, if the Bears win today, are you going to do that thing with the champagne bottle where you pop the cork and shake it and it sprays?” “No, I’ll do that when the Bears win the Super Bowl.” …yet even as I answered her, I was thinking, Wow, how far we’ve come! Our daughter […]
24 days ago | 3 reads
The NFL season is an evolving state of affairs with each team aspiring to hoist the Lombardi Trophy come February, but only 8 teams remain on their quest to do so. After a monumental win against their longtime rivals, the Chicago Bears host the NFL’s most potent offense in the Los Angeles Rams, who also […]
24 days ago | 2 reads
The Chicago Bears beat the Green Bay Packers in improbable fashion on Wild Card Weekend to advance to the Divisional Round. Their opponent this week is the LA Rams as these two teams faceoff to see who will be playing for a chance to advance to the Super Bowl against the Seattle Seahawks or San […]
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The 2006 NFC Championship aside, this may have been the most important, and meaningful win in all my years as a Bears fan. I won’t sugarcoat it, about midway through the 3rd quarter even I was muttering “same old Bears”, me, one of the most glass half full fans in the world. But even then, […]
24 days ago | 2 reads
THE DAILY SPONGIE SPECIAL NOTE: Salty Language, NSFW BEARSSSSSS Indiana begins effort to pass legislation to pay for new Bears stadium Via Ian Rapoport of NFL Media, an Indiana senator has introduced a bill that would establish the funding mechanism for a stadium on the other side of the Illinois state line. No question about it, Bears […]
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Chicago Bears wide receiver Rome Odunze missed the final five games of the 2025 season due to a stress fracture in his foot, and while he returned for the Wild Card win against the Green Bay Packers, he’s still not healthy. Earlier today, the Chicago Sun-Times’ Jason Lieser reported that Odunze said it was “tough” […]
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The Chicago Bears and the Los Angeles Rams play on Sunday, with the winner advancing to the NFC Championship game. The other NFC Divisional matchup is on Saturday, with the San Francisco 49ers on the road against the Seattle Seahawks. On our latest edition of Bear Bones, Dr. Mason West is joined by Danny Meehan […]
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Teams that draft outside of the top fifteen or twenty spots have far less freedom to target positions of need than rebuilding teams. Instead, they must take the best players that fall to them while keeping in mind roster weaknesses. They must also leverage redundancies on their roster by trading away older and higher-paid players […]
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Now that we’re full-on into the playoffs, it’s time to stop looking in the rearview with our Secret Superstars series, and start looking forward to the next game with Postseason X-Factors. The principle is the same — using game tape and metrics to uncover those hidden gems for every team who are primed to bring […]
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