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Greg Olsen laps this field.

Yes, the time frame includes those games. The Northwestern game was a solid effort overall after a sluggish first half adjusting to a late Mirkovic illness scratch. Minnesota has been a solid team for a month now and the zone in the first half flustered the offense. Petrovic turned out to be the key to break it at the end of the first half, and the offense got it figured out in the second half for a double digit win.

Illinois has been the #1 team in the country in adjusted efficiency since the Nebraska game.

I did some research on football-reference. He played in a total of 19 road games in Dec/Jan that were not in NOR or ARI and went 4-15 in those games. Aikman, over his career, was a lot like Derek Jeter. He was good but impossibly overrated due to the effect of the players around him.

Can't imagine Troy played in a ton of cold weather games in Dallas.

The Seahawks and Rams are much better than anyone in the AFC this season. This is unfortunate for the Bears.

CJ Stroud saw Josh Allen and 5 TOs yesterday and said "I can beat that."

So both the Rams AND the Patriots responded to the Super Bowl Shuffle by putting out something far more embarrassing.

He didn't maintain control of the ball throughout the process of going to the ground.

Bo Nix broke his ankle on the second to last play of the game and is out for the rest of the season.

Wild stat that may only interest me: Sean Mcvay has made the playoffs in 7 of his 9 years with the Rams, and Sunday will be his 15th playoff game. He has never played the same team in the playoffs twice.

Just waiting for Tomlin to the Browns, Harbaugh to the Steelers, and Stefanski to the Ravens.

And the ones that aren't are probably holdover Cardinals fans from the St. Louis days.

Tomlin is stepping down in Pittsburgh. The Steelers have had 3 coaches total over the last 56 years, which is insane.

It reads of "Looking at stats with no context". Even last week, Caleb threw 48 times for 361 yards and 2 TDs/2 picks. The picks? A 4th down arm punt where Burden ran the wrong route, and a floater with a hand in his face near the goal line on 4th down where if he doesn't throw it it's a turnover anyway. The 50% completion rate seems bad on its own, except that the weather was windy, Love also threw for a near 50% completion rate, and the vast majority of passes Caleb was throwing was downfield. His "on target rate" is worst in the NFL. He also throws the ball away more than anyone in the NFL to avoid sacks and negative plays. Sometimes he gives up on plays a little early, but most of it is just throwing it to locations nobody else can catch it, which is either "throw away" or "throw it to a low percentage catch chance with a 0% INT chance". It's also a complex offense with a lot of movement that has to work together, and sometimes the timing is just off still. I'm not sure if that plays into why it takes the offense until the 4th quarter to really click in many games, but if the receiver is not on the right route, or the blocking isn't setting the pocket correctly, or Caleb has to scramble and improvise, things can still look a little messy. But you can see the offense being very effective in spurts, and it feels like it's right there for really clicking. Some day soon, all facets of the offense will click and they'll run someone off the field. I'm not sure if it'll happen yet this year, but it's right there.

So has Kyler Gordon.

The last time the Bears played the Rams was week 4 last year, where they beat them 24-18 at home with Caleb Williams throwing for 157 and a TD to move the Bears to 2-2 under Matt Eberflus. The loss dropped the Rams to 1-3 (they'd fall to 1-4 before rattling off 9 wins in their next 11 games to win the NFC West). That was before Puka Nacua was Puka Nacua, and the Rams didn't have Davante Adams, but beyond that they're largely the same team from then. The Bears have an entirely different coaching staff, offensive line, and a new skill player at each position, but their defense has regressed. As for the weather, the temperature at game time is projected to be around 15 degrees. The Rams under McVay have played 4 games in freezing temperatures in total, going 2-2, but none of them have ever been projected as that cold. Also, Matthew Stafford, despite playing a significant portion of his career in Detroit, only has played 6 games in freezing temperatures, going 3-3 (but with 15 TD and 3 INT). Last one of those was last year's divisional round game in Philly in the snow, which they lost 28-22.

Also, the Bears as a team are up to #10 in weighted DVOA, so every one of the 8 teams left in the playoffs are in the top 10. The two teams above the Bears that are not still playing are the Jags and Ravens (who, while going 8-9, did beat the Bears handily, and probably should have made the playoffs).

Bears' offensive DVOA was updated from the weekend, and they're up to 4th now, behind the Rams, Pats and 49ers. Next 3 opponents?

I'd guess it'll be the 5:30 pm game, since LA is the only west coast team playing on the day.

I have a hard time believing these are 2 of the best teams in the AFC. Both teams in the early game looked better.

QB wins are a pointless stat, but it's still kinda fun to see that Caleb now has 3 wins against the Packers, when the previous 15 years of QBs accumulated a grand total of 3 wins against the Packers.

First time seeing the Chargers this year. Their offensive line reminds me of last year's Bears O-line. Just no resistance at all.

I would agree, since the winner of tomorrow's game can't play the bye team in the AFC (Bills win means either Pats-4/5 and Broncos-Bills or Chargers-Broncos and Bills-4/5)