The rivalry!

The 182nd meeting between the two of the oldest rivals in the league. The Green Bay Packers and Chicago Bears meet in one of the most important meetings they'll ever have, at Soldier field on Sunday. Last time these two teams met in the playoffs the Bears had players like Sid Luckman, Bulldog Turner, and Bill Osmanski. The rivalry is so old the last time they met in the playoffs the quarter back was also the punter. Those same two franchises meet in a similar situation just 70 years later.

The stakes are higher than ever. Everyone, and I mean everyone will be watching this game. The media is in a fiasco trying to cover every inch of the game.I saw analyst breaking down Jay's playoff beard, the game is that big! Don't forget the fans either, to them this means more than anything. Failure is not an option at this point. Bragging rights, and did I mention, A CHANCE TO PLAY FOR A SUPERBOWL RING. In all my years as a dedicated Bears fan I've never seen a game as important as this, and that includes the '07' superbowl. We have a chance to win the NFC, play for a superbowl, and best of all SLAP THOSE SILLY ASS PACKERS BACK TO GREEN BAY!

With all that said, I now would like to talk about match ups, gameplan,...etc.

In terms of match ups on the offensive end it starts on the offensive line, our O-Line vs the front 7 of the Packers. Picket, Raji, Jenkins, Matthews, Hawk, Bishop, and Walden vs our O-Line, Tight ends, and running back. Advantage:Packers, but I do think we will play at a very high level. The match ups to watch for our J'Marcus Webb up against one of the best OLB Clay Matthews, as well as our TE's and RB's against CB's coming off the edge. One other match up to watch is Jay vs the secondary of the Packers. Probably the best secondary in the league other than the Jets. Williams, and Woodson are straight ballers. Both pro bowlers this year, and both having a great post season. Will Jay be able to make the throws, read the coverage, make good decisions. I want to see how Mike calls the game knowing the capabilities of those Pro bowl corners.

On the defensive side of the ball it's all about Aaron Rodgers, "Aaron is 52345324 times better than Joe Montana" "Brian Urlacher that the bald guy from New Mexico? Aaron will light that guy up." If I wanted to watch this much (Pardon my french) dick sucking I turn on the Bachelor. Don't get me wrong Aaron is a lighting bolt, and an amazing QB. I see it all the time with "analyst" their memories only go back as far as the last game, they never look [past that. Aaron was amazing in Atlanta, but they forgot about the near loss he had in Philly, the near loss at home he had against Chicago, oh yeah and he didn't score a point against Detroit. Enough about Aaron, lets look at the defense.

My X-Factor in our defense this weekend is none other than Tommie Harris. I feel if he can get enough pressure on Aaron from the inside, and Juilius and Idonje do their thing on the outside, Aaron is in for a long day. Especially with the way Peanut has been playing, LIGHTS OUT! Peanut is up against of the the deepest receiving cores in the league, with pro bowler in Jennings, and Donald Driver. Can our secondary contain these guys? Jennings on Driver (Or jennings) small physical Jennings. Will Chris Harris be 100% and can Major pick up his load? Lot of question in the secondary, but I believe they will come to play. I believe if we want to win this game we need a +1 or 2 in the turnover margin. One more thing, our LB's > Green Bays LB (What's wrong with a little trash talk?)

Last match up, Devin Hester. Will Mike punt to him, will he kick it out?  Devin will be the X-Factor throughout the game. We need field position, and with Devin fielding punts I think we will get those extra yards. Bears will get three and outs, its up to Devin to give us the field position needed to win the game. He could possibly take one back, week three showed us how weak the Green bay's special teams are. Eric Weems did too. Devin Hester will be huge in this game, make it or break it in my opinion.

A game for the ages, this will change the dynamic of one of these old franchises. Winner will still have to win the superbowl to become the true champ, but winning this is just one more step on the way to the top. In one of the biggest games of all time, will the Bears show up?

BearDown Chicago, Beardown!
(Shoutouts to everyone on twitter @TheBears85, Jim Cornelison, Zach Zaidman, everyone in the Bears organization, and all the fans!)