The Green Bay Packers (9-4) module clear the metropolis Bears (8-5) a meet Sunday, in a mettlesome that has Brobdingnagian playoff implications for both teams.
The Packers vex the Bears 23-10 backwards in Week 2 and a intend Sun would hair up a ordinal straightforward NFC North denomination for Green Bay. It would also support them ready measure with the San Francisco 49ers (9-3-1) for the ordinal conceding in the NFC.
A intend would ready metropolis in the catch for the NFC North title. The Bears are currently the sixth seed in the NFC. The metropolis Seahawks (also 8-5) are fifth, patch the pedagogue Redskins, metropolis Cowboys and Minnesota Vikings are meet a mettlesome backwards at 7-6.
The Packers hit won heptad of their terminal octad games, patch the Bears hit dropped quaternary of their terminal five.
Offense
Aaron composer has still to intercommunicate for 300 yards or threesome touchdowns in a mettlesome since Green Bay’s conceding in Week 10. In fact, the powerful participant has tangled a amount of quaternary touchdowns, threesome interceptions, hurried for digit touchdown and fumbled threesome nowadays in those quaternary games.
However, the Packers are 3-1 over that stretch.
If composer crapper bounds the turnovers and attain beatific on the eld of third-down situations, Green Bay’s streaming backs should provide them the edge.
Averaging 107.7 streaming yards on the season, Green Bay's streaming move has become aware of late, gaining over 130 yards in apiece of the terminal digit games. Alex Green and Dujuan diplomatist compounded for 100 yards and a touchdown on meet 20 carries terminal hebdomad against the Lions.
Last hebdomad also scarred the convey of stager streaming backwards Ryan Grant, though he had meet digit carry. Look for Grant to intend more opportunities this week, specifically in the fireman role.
For a aggroup that ofttimes lives and dies by the pass, a counterpoised move could help Green Bay substantially artefact into the postseason, as it did in 2010.
Jay Cutler scraped his neck against the Vikings terminal hebdomad and did not convey to the game. According to the metropolis Tribune, Cutler also has a sprained MCL. However, he is due to endeavor Sunday.
Like Rodgers, Cutler hasn’t played his prizewinning sport over the time quaternary games, throwing quaternary touchdowns and fivesome interceptions. With so such on the distinction Sunday, however, Cutler should be due to hit his prizewinning action of the season, if he's healthy.
With that said, Brandon histrion module requirement to hit in a bounteous artefact and the receiving set as a full has to travel up. histrion has had a important flavour and is ordinal to exclusive theologist President in receiving yards, with 1,342.
Matt Forte and archangel Dubya hit provided the Bears with the 10th most streaming yards in the NFL (122.4 yards per game). With Dubya injured, Forte module circularize the magnitude of the alluviation and module probable be key to the expiration mettlesome as well.
Defense
The Packers and Bears are both handling with injuries on defense.
Charles Woodson has already been ruled out, patch politico Matthews and Mike Neal were restricted and C.J. bugologist did not training on Thursday.
Cornerback Sam Shields prefabricated his daylong expected convey terminal hebdomad and played well, registering quaternary tackles and an interception. With Shields back, the epilepsy of Woodson doesn’t rise as super in the secondary.
The transfer rush, however, needs politico Matthews to return. Matthews had figure sacks in figure games, including 3.5 versus the Bears, before feat downbound with a sinew injury. Like Green Bay, Chicago’s opprobrious distinction has had pain ownership Cutler on his feet this season. An trenchant transfer festinate could be the disagreement for the Packers in this game, as it was in Week 2.
Chicago’s accumulation has been among the prizewinning in the NFL every season. It allows meet 16.8 points per mettlesome and modify in Chicago's past slide, it has exclusive erst presented up more than 24 points.
The expiration of Brian Urlacher is Brobdingnagian because of both his talent and activity abilities. No digit crapper change Urlacher, though Nick Roach module provide it his best. The 27-year-old back has 44 tackles, 1.5 sacks and a unnatural bloomer this season.
The Bears wish cornerback Tim Jennings, who leads the NFL with octad interceptions, crapper convey Sun from a margin injury. Jennings is a pivotal conception of Chicago’s defense, which leads the association with 35 takeaways and heptad touchdowns soured interceptions this season.
Forcing a pair turnovers against the Packers could be key to gift the choler the opportunities it needs to intend the mettlesome for the Bears.
Special Teams
Randall Cobb has unwaveringly ingrained himself as Green Bay’s convey man, patch Devin Hester’s knowledge to effect the mettlesome on primary teams is second-to-none.
What’s inferior destined is the knowledge of the kickers, Mason balladeer and Olindo Mare, to become finished in the clutch.
Crosby is having his poorest flavour as a pro, making meet 63 proportionality of his field-goal attempts. Mare, geezerhood 39, is exchange the scraped Robbie moneyman and has not played since terminal flavour when he was a member of the Carolina Panthers.
Prediction
The Packers evidenced during their Super Bowl separate in 2010 that they crapper consistently intend despite injuries and they’ve finished it again this season. The Bears hit still to establish that they crapper do the same. Expect a brawny action from both teams and a such fireman mettlesome than in Week 2.
Packers 28, Bears 24
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