NFL Week 16 Picks: Packers Get off Easy by Facing Battered Bears
Published by Gabe Zaldivar on December 24, 2011
Article Source: Bleacher Report - Chicago Bears
It continues to get worse for the Chicago Bears.
The flip side of that would be, of course, that things couldn’t be any better for the Green Bay Packers currently. Sure, they are coming off of one loss, but they are one game away from getting back on track.
The NFL must have had a very different idea of what this game would have looked like when they scheduled it for Christmas Day, and I don’t blame them. At the outset of the season, there was no reason to not believe this game would be a clash with mammoth playoff implications surrounding it. Instead, it has all the makings of something you can have on while you slip into a holiday food coma.
This game is really quite simple to pick, and you only need to follow the logical steps. It will lead you through the gates at Lambeau Field, where the game is being held, past the locker of Caleb Hanie, who is too awful to start, and at the seat of Khalil Bell, the running back that has to start because of yet another injury.
The offense is reeling at the moment, and it has Lovie Smith grasping for straws. Hanie is no good, so Josh McCown gets the nod. As the Chicago Tribune reported, Marion Barber will not be suiting up giving the bulk of the carries to Khalil Bell, which isn’t the worst thing in the world.
Mike Martz will no doubt want to pound the ball on the ground with the mess the offense is in, but the Packers will be well prepared for such things.
Not that any of this matters anyway. Aaron Rodgers is still a member of the Green Bay Packers—at least, I think he is. That means that the Bears will be chasing a score they don’t have the weapons for. This game should have been so much more, but fate has hit the Bears hard.
I feel bad for the Bears, because no team deserves to go through this much turmoil.
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