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Week 9: Bears 27, Buccaneers 24 — the "We Were Due for One" Game

Your esteemed hosts break down the weird cognitive dissonance of watching the team play so badly in a win actually winding up to make you feel better about the team. Stats! Awards! Celebration! A Super Bowl-caliber team! 

Week 8: Bears 34, Seahawks 17 — The "Take Us For Real" Game

Week 7: Bears 30, Patriots 24 — The "We're Coming Back to You" Game

Week 5: Bears 7, Packers 31 — It Wasn't As Bad as It Looked

  You know what. Sometimes games just suck. And that's okay. But it did suck.

None of You Deserve Josh Allen

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There have been 27 Super Bowls played since the year 2000. Yes, I know the one they played in 2000 was technically the 99 Super Bowl, but it was easier to section out this way, sue me. By my count, 17 of those Super Bowls were won by players who were considered at the time to be Elite Quarterbacks. Most of these players are already in the Hall of Fame, or are not yet eligible because their Hall-worthy exploits occurred too recently (or are still occurring, in the case of players like Patrick Mahomes and Matt Stafford). Pictured: A man still burnishing his legacy That’s 62% of all championships in the 21 st century, won by players belonging to a category that encompasses no more than five players in any given year. Often, it’s even fewer than that. Now you might say “Of course, the good players win most of the games,” and you’d be right about that. But the thing is, teams with basically every weakness you can imagine have won Super Bowls in this time period. Weak run games, porous seco...

Week 4: Bears 23, Jets 12 — Your Team is Good

 Forget whoever's starting at QB. Forget rain games. Forget whatever it meant to once worry about the Bears offense. Those days are gone. We're in the Ben Johnson era now. And in the Ben Johnson era? Our team... ...is good

Week 3: Bears 27, Eagles 7 — This Team Brings out the Best in Everybody

 Your award-capable hosts break down the absolute magic that was the Bears team rallying around a 3rd-string 38-year-old at QB putting everything he had left out there for a final swan song. The emergence of Dillon Thieneman. The continued ascent of Swift. The weekly domination by the Bears OL. Just another day in the life of the Ben Johnson's Bears.