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Chicago Bears Thankfully Survive Bye Week Without Suffering Another Loss

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Sounds like a title from “The Onion,” but to hammer a cliché, the bye week for the Chicago Bears could not have come at a better time. After dropping four of their last five contests, the Bears were in turmoil. The team seemed to be coming apart at the seams. The players were arguing in the locker room, Marc Trestman, doing his best General Custer impression, tried to tell the media that nothing was wrong and Jay Cutler came under scrutiny once again. Not just for his on field performance, but for things he did off the field as well.

Forget needing a week to rest or to get healthy, the Bears needed a week to get away from each other. The last thing this team needed was another week in close quarters. These players needed to get home to their families, steer clear of each other for six days and hit the reset button.

This week’s task isn’t easy. In fact, it might even be tougher than their pre-bye week task of trying to beat the New England Patriots in Foxborough (let’s not revisit that again). This week they travel to Lambeau Field to face Aaron Rodgers and the Green Bay Packers, a place they have had zero success at in recent years.

Rodgers has never lost to the Bears at home. In the record books, it will claim he has one loss, but that was last year where he was injured early in the first quarter. That loss is not on Rodgers. In fact, the way he had the team moving on the opening drive, you could make the argument that the Packers most certainly would have won that game if Rodgers wasn’t injured.

The worst thing that could have happened to Chicago is that the Packers lost last week to the New Orleans Saints. It dropped Green Bay’s record to 5-3, and the last thing the Pack want is to drop to 5-4 with the Philadelphia Eagles and Patriots coming up in two of their next three games. The Packers will be focused and any chance the Bears could have hoped to catch the Packers napping has vanished.

The Bears play this week to save their season. They have backed themselves into a corner where they need to win this game to keep their fading playoff hopes alive. If this team has the fortitude and talent that many thought they had in August, a win this week is possible. However, if the first two months of the season are an accurate portrayal as to what to expect from this team, then Sunday night will be a long one at Lambeau.

Bill Zimmerman is a Chicago Bears writer for www.RantSports.Com. Follow him on Twitter, like him on Facebook, or add him to your network on Google.

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