In this week’s emailed Reacts survey questions — sign up here to participate — SB Nation asked fans to pick all the winners in the Wild Card games, and I was not expecting their results to come back in favor of the Navy and Orange.
The Chicago Bears did earn the second seed in the NFC with an (11-6) record, and they are hosting the Green Bay Packers (9-7-1). The Bears did beat the Packers in their meeting last month, but I assumed that most NFL fans would look at the history between these two franchises
and go with the more playoff-seasoned roster and pick Green Bay.
This is the Packers’ third consecutive postseason appearance, and head coach Matt LeFluer’s sixth in his seven years in Green Bay.
Our partners at FanDuel Sportsbook have the Packers as a slight favorite. The line has been going back and forth since it opened last week, and as of this writing, it’s Bears +1.5. The over/under is 44.5, and if you like the moneyline for Chicago, that’s +108.
Yesterday, our guy Bill Zimmerman shared three of his favorite prop bets for the game, which you can find here.
FanDuel has a 4-leg Same Game Parlay special that they are billing as 3rd & Goal: Playmakers pursue the pylon as division rivals meet for the third time this season, and it’s an Any Time Touchdown Scorer for all four of these players, Bears tailback D’Andre Swift and tight end Colston Loveland, and Packers running back Josh Jacobs and wide receiver Christian Watson, and if all four get a TD, it’s a +4659 pay out.
We had a couple of Reacts questions here at WCG this week for our fans, and you guys are still supremely confident the team is heading in the right direction.
And why wouldn’t we be?
It’s a quarterback league, but if you also have the head coach figured out, you’re ahead of the game. If Ben Johnson and Caleb Williams continue on their current trajectory, the Bears should be perennial playoff contenders.
We also asked you guys to give a letter grade for Chicago’s 2025 season, and it would seem the 2% who are not confident with the franchise’s direction were also not very impressed with Year One of the Ben Johnson era.
