(670 The Score) The Bears (4-12) will visit the Green Bay Packers (11-5) on Sunday, with kickoff set for noon CT from Lambeau Field.
Our 670 The Score pregame show with Mike Mulligan, Olin Kreutz and Patrick Mannelly will begin at 9 a.m. and last until kickoff. Our postgame show will begin around 3 p.m., just after the final buzzer. You can listen by clicking here.
You can check out all of 670’s preview coverage of the Bears-Packers matchup by clicking here. Below are game predictions from our 670 hosts, producers and writers.
David Haugh (11-5): Packers 27, Bears 17
The Packers can play Jordan Love, rest him or run Wildcat formation for four quarters. It probably wouldn't matter. This disastrous Bears season, one of the most disappointing and dysfunctional in recent memory, can't end soon enough but, fittingly, it will end with another loss. Hello, 4-13.
Matt Spiegel (8-8): Packers 31, Bears 17
Mercifully, it ends. With a whimper.
Chris Emma (11-5): Packers 31, Bears 17
In a miserable season that’s seen just about everything, all that's missing for the Bears is an ugly loss in Green Bay. Then it's on to an offseason in which the Bears will hope to finally get it right.
Paul Pabst (11-5): Packers 24, Bears 21 (OT)
I'm pretty sure half of the guys here will pick the Bears to win. A Chicago win at Green Bay to end the season would be a bit like Michigan beating Ohio State at its place after a shaky season. Sadly, I'm going Green Bay in overtime. The pain can get worse before it gets better.
Alex Kuhn (11-5): Packers 24, Bears 13
Even if Jaylon Johnson is fired up to play, it still feels like the plurality of the Bears have checked out on this season.
Tyler Ferengul (11-5): Packers 34, Bears 16
I can't see this going well for the Bears in any phase of the game. Their offense has been outmatched week in and week out by any opposing defense they've faced, and this Green Bay defense that has forced a lot of turnovers will present similar challenges. The Bears' best offensive outing since Thomas Brown was promoted to be their interim head coach was a 17-point outing against the Lions in Week 16. It's been ugly. As for the Bears defense, it rebounded with a nice performance against the Seahawks but massively struggled in the other three games with coordinator Eric Washington calling the plays. The Packers won't let up even though they have nothing to play for other than the No. 6 seed in the NFC. The big-play passing ability of Green Bay's offense will once again torch Chicago, whose inability to stop the run will also make life easy for Josh Jacobs inside the tacklers. The Packers win their 12th in a row against the Bears, who end the season on an 11-game losing streak. It's on to 2025 for the Bears. (P.S.: Hire Ben Johnson at all costs.)
Robbie Triano (11-5): Packers 31, Bears 13
This Bears season has sucked. There’s no way of sugarcoating it. Bears fans came into the season with optimism but were curb-stomped by reality. What I've learned from this season is that, top to bottom, there's a whole lot of stupid in the Bears organization. Ownership has no idea what it’s doing besides calling balls and strikes in Little League games. Kevin Warren, who has zero football expertise, is helping make football decisions. Ryan Poles has swung and missed on roster moves and hires more than modern day Javier Baez does at the plate. And Matt Eberflus earned himself a spot on the Mount Rushmore of all-time NFL head coaching idiots, with his Robin, Shane Waldron, being just as dumb as him. Bears fans don't deserve this amount of idiocy. If I could have a New Year’s resolution for the Bears, it would be this: get a smart person in the room. Find a lightbulb to illuminate this pitch black room and throw out the broken bulbs. Let's start here: Poles needs to go. Warren had one job – to get a new stadium – and he hasn't yet. Either get him out or shut him up when it comes to what happens on a football field. Go get Ben Johnson to pair with your franchise quarterback. Let him help pick what GM he wants to work. End this cycle of stupidity of having to fire the GM, head coach or quarterback every three or four years. But sadly, you have to trust this group of idiots to find a smart person, and I'm not sure they know what one looks like. I wish you all the best of luck this offseason, Bears fans. I'll see you in the weekly picks column next season when the Lions enter as the reigning Super Bowl champions.