Bears Face Must-Win Thursday Night Game as Vikings Lead NFC North

I always like to play the win-lose scenario, right? Well, we'll start with Chicago, Greg, right? Three-point favorites tonight. Win, keep Chicago two back in Minnesota. 5-0 Vikings hosting 2-4 Indianapolis. They're a complete mess. Vikings are at home. You got to consider, you know, Minnesota's almost a touchdown favorite. The Vikings are going to win that. So a win would keep Chicago two back. Okay. A loss, though. You know, listen, there's 10 games left after tonight. I get that. But a loss would drop Chicago three back, and they lost to the Vikings already. So they really would be three and a half back. They get to play them again, but that loss was in Chicago. So they got to play Minnesota in Minnesota. Not saying the division race is over, but boy, it's tough to overcome a three-game deficit. Really, again, three and a half with only ten to play. It's almost like do or die if the Bears want to win the division to win this game tonight. Yeah, I think so. the playoffs not even close because of the rest of the NFC being horrible but I mean the the NFC is just I mean it's really hard to find two or three teams that you really trust but you know for the division Scott yeah I think that that's reasonable to think it would almost require uh you know rolling off five six in a row including a game against Minnesota and I think most people look at the Vikings and say that they're not fraudulent in terms of a playoff team and they're not fraudulent in terms of maybe even winning a division but I I have a suspicion that we're going to get to December and January and they'd be a very light home favorite I think in the first game that they played I think a lot of people would probably take the other side no matter who they played because they just don't look that good it's just their defense has really kept them in games they've been so dominant that they haven't needed an offense that changes in the playoffs i think you need to score three touchdowns in the playoffs to win but i think that's a fair point that you make if the bears were to lose tonight the division would be an extreme long shot but i look at that entire division and you know certainly i i would not expect every team in the division to make it but it is turning out maybe to be the best division in the nfc at this point i mean the west is definitely not it the south is definitely not it and the east wouldn't even have to talk about it'd be lucky to have one team make it and one team has to make it from the east and that's it so uh north without a doubt best in the nfc and then by the way i probably don't even i think the vikings are probably the second or third best team in the nfc in the uh in the division but they do have the best record right now you could realistically right now if the playoffs were to start today and obviously they don't and there's a long ways to go but right now all four teams in the nfc north make the playoffs and that's where all the wild card teams come from that's how bad like even seattle yeah you know it's three and three and then seattle's got you know kansas city albeit at home i mean they could fall to three and four you know even if the rams win they're three and four um and at this point i can't count on the rams beating anybody right if they can't beat Arizona at home you certainly can't automatically say they're going to beat the Raiders in Las Vegas so the NFC Craig we could have literally I brought this up on other shows we could realistically have not only one but two teams with losing records win their respective divisions in the NFC East and the NFC South that's never happened in the NFL before yeah i mean i i would agree with the East i do like Carolina i think they i think last week was the pushover not the top but the pushover that for me like them them i don't care them going on the road and beating anybody the way that they did to Philadelphia last week and i know Philadelphia was playing with a ton of guys out i do think Carolina has separated themselves from the rest of the division i would anticipate and i'm guessing their win total right now on on the betting totals is probably nine and a half which which seems about right or nine which gives them 10 wins that gets them in but yes the East you're 100 percent right i mean Scott we're going down to the last week of the season i'm gonna guess with somebody in the NFC East having seven wins and if they win winning the division meaning getting to eight and getting to eight nine i think i think that's gonna happen this year