So let me get this straight, you don't think we can beat the Packers, so you want the Rams to win so we get in, only to play most likely the Saints, who are just as good as the Packers and have a better defense. If you think the Packers are going to beat our asses, so will the Saints.
Call me crazy but I'm not gonna just assume a loss because our rookie corner is out. If we lost it obviously wouldn't be shocking, but this game is far from impossible to win like you and a lot of others are making it out to be.
I am glad we get to play the Packers in a meaningful game. It is part of the teams growth and learning to play championship level football by experiencing championship level football.
Thats the upside of the 41-13 beatdown at the hands of the Saints the following week. At least the team will see what championship effort and leadership look like up close.
Right now Brees is angling for the award only given once a century...
The Ginghas Khan "All Men Would Follow me to their Death" Award. And holy shit is that team responding. Brees is now far less accurate than Trubisky due to having half a rib cage, and he spends his free time trying not to vomit from the pain on the sidelines, and just keep breathing.
The story of the Saints 50 burger on the Vikings is that the entire team just sat in a film room all week and watched Drew Brees against the Chiefs give his life for them.
This is how Brees has decided to go out. 7 Broken Ribs, punctured lung, so much radiation he can't even look at his broken body anymore...and thats the only way he gets clearence. Just don't look and play, and his teammates have noticed his swan song.
They will die for him. Every man on that field will die for him in the 2020 NFL playoffs.
So no, I don't think the Bears will overcome that, but I do think we can benefit from witnessing it, and that it would be an honor just to be a part of it and bring glory to the game and to sport and to humanity, leadership, and perseverance.
This year it may be a great honor to be part of Drew Brees last myth.