Saturday, February 5, 2011

NFC Championship Playoff Preview: Chicago Bears vs. Green Bay Packers

The Chicago Bears 2010 season started out with an intriguing call that went their way and gave them their very first win of the season (against the Lions). They then opened the growing season having a three-game winning streak, took a huge pounding in the hands of the Giants and went into a two-game skid just before their bye week. The transformation that this team underwent throughout the bye week is beginning to grow to be somewhat of a legend. Following their bye week, the Bears racked up five straight wins just before heading into their game with Patriots. They lost that game massive, but recovered to win their next couple of games just before falling towards the team that they are going to face within the NFC Championship game.

It all comes down to this. The Chicago Bears, coming off of a 35-24 win over the Seattle Seahawks within the divisional playoff round on Sunday, will host the Green Bay Packers, 48-21 winners over the Atlanta Falcons on Saturday evening. These two teams know each other perfectly, having played more games than any other two teams within the good reputation for the NFL and have played just one playoff game against the Packers and that would be a 33-14 Bears win in 1941. This promises to be 1 of the biggest and most challenging fought games in between both of these teams in their long history. It promises to bring some trash speaking between the players of each teams and, obviously, the fans of both teams and maybe the media, nevertheless it will be a spectacle, one that's welcome by both sides.

The Packers and the Bears have met twice before; the first game (at Soldier Field) was a 20-17 Bears win, although the Packers beat the Bears within the second game (at Lambeau Field) 10-3). The Bears have really be a a lot greater team than they were when these two teams met the very first time and played them extremely tough in that second game. The Packers are also another team and seem to be firing on all cylinders on sides of the ball. Green Bay is favored by numerous to win farmville, but the Bears have every bit as good of a possibility to win farmville as the Packers do. They have benefits over Green Bay and the Packers have advantages more than the Bears. Needless to say, it's going to be an intriguing game. So which team has the edge in this matchup? Can Chicago turn off quarterback Aaron Rodgers along with the rest of the Packers offense? Will the Packers defense be an excessive amount of for the Bears to take care of? Let's discover in this extended preview from the Bears versus the Packers within the NFC Championship game this Sunday at Soldier Field.

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