Unexpected Weaknesses in Bears and Eagles Defenses Could Change Everything This Season

Bears vs. Eagles, 3:00 ET

What do you have to do on Black Friday? Personally, I’ll do a bit of online shopping, maybe go to the grocery store, and then I really don’t know what else. Thanks to the NFL, at least during the middle of the day, I’ll have something to watch. And, if the game is a disaster, I’ll have quieter than normal stores for the busiest shopping day of the year. We are treated to a nice Black Friday game as the Bears take on the Eagles.

If you had the Eagles coming into this game at 8-3, I think most people would’ve agreed and understood. If you had the Bears coming into this week with an 8-3 record and being in first place within the division, I’d have to guess most people would’ve said that was wishful thinking. Here we are, in Week 13, with the Bears having a winning record. Now, I’ve discussed this a few times, and last week I got a push on my play with them. But the Bears are probably a fraudulent winning team. They have won eight of their last nine games, but realistically, this team could have lost all but two of those games. I won’t harp on it forever because the team won the games, and there is value in that, and it deserves acknowledgment. Last week, the team won the game without all three of their starting linebackers. That’s a unique accomplishment as well. All three of those linebackers are still on the injured list as of Wednesday, and I am not expecting them to play. There is a much bigger game on the horizon for the Bears, and I expect the team to hope their guys can be healthy and ready to go for that one.