(670 The Score) The Bears (4-8) visit the Packers (9-3) on Sunday Night Football.
WBBM Newsradio 780 will carry the game, with kickoff set for 7:20 p.m. 670 The Score's pregame show with Mike Mulligan, Olin Kreutz and Patrick Mannelly will start at 4:30 p.m. and run until kickoff. Our postgame show with Mulligan and Mannelly will start just after the final buzzer.
You can check out all of 670's preview coverage of the Bears-Packers matchup by clicking here. Below are the game predictions from our 670 hosts, producers and writers.
David Haugh (11-1): Packers 34, Bears 20
Justin Fields returning to start makes this game more watchable. It doesn't, however, make it more winnable for the Bears. Unless Aaron Rodgers stubs his pinky toe in the middle of the night while rustled out of bed by the woke mob, the Packers will do what the Packers typically do when playing the Bears in primetime: dominate. The clock ticking on Matt Nagy's tenure gets a little louder.
Leila Rahimi (11-1): Packers 35, Bears 17
I appreciate Fields wanting to play and Nagy saying he's cleared and all, but nothing about Lambeau Field in December seems comfortable for an opposing player. It hurts me just thinking about how many hits Fields will take as he throws the ball – which the Bears will do for infinity because it's Nagy's "thing." I can only hope the Bears decide to run the ball as much as possible. I also wonder what Nick Foles is doing on the Bears' roster considering they're paying him $8 million annually. This seems like a Foles game: Go to Lambeau when nobody expects you to win and take down the antagonist and plot destroyer that is Rodgers for a storybook ending that saves Nagy's career. Almost like the time Foles won the Super Bowl or that time he convinced Tom Brady that he had another down. Sigh.
Danny Parkins (7-5): Packers 35, Bears 14
Can I just insert the Mr. T graphic from Rocky III? My prediction: pain.
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Herb Lawrence (8-4): Packers 42, Bears 13
If you're a Bears fan and are reading this, you already know what's going to happen Sunday. Might I suggest you take your Sunday night off from watching this game and do something that you and yours will enjoy? I hear that Christkindlmarket (either location) or Zoo Lights (either zoo) are fun.
Adam Studzinski (8-4): Bears 24, Packers 21
Fields is back (thank god), and I'm predicting he somehow wills this team to victory because I need something to celebrate in this otherwise hellish season. I have no good reason for this … like none at all. It doesn't make sense and probably won't happen. Whatever. Bear down.
Chris Emma (9-3): Packers 38, Bears 17
Even with Fields returning, this has all the makings of an ugly night for the Bears under the national spotlight. Their offense is still finding itself. The defense is depleted. And the Packers are fresh off a bye week. It's worth wondering if this will become Nagy's last game as head coach in Chicago.
Cam Ellis (10-2): Packers 30, Bears 21
The good news is that it'll be over after four quarters.
Les Grobstein (10-2): Packers 42, Bears 20
This is a bad matchup for the Bears, who will score a bogus touchdown with a couple of minutes left against a prevent defense to make it look a little closer than it is.
Jay Zawaski (6-6): Packers 35, Bears 17
It'll be the same story we've seen for most of our lifetimes. The Bears will get embarrassed on national television by the Packers. Rodgers and his pinky toe will continue to own Chicago.
