We are only 9 days away from the first meeting of the season between the Green Bay Packers and the Chicago Bears. And this year the rivals get the biggest stage of them all, Week 3 Monday Night Football!
Jon Gruden, Mike Tirico and Ron Jaworski will be in Chicago to call the game on ESPN and it should be a good one.
Both the Packers and the Bears won their Week 1 match-ups and looked pretty good doing so (although the Lions did have the Bears beat). Week 2 will go a long way to show how the Bears look as they travel to Dallas. While the Packers get Buffalo at home in what should be a little bit easier of an assignment.
I don’t want to make any picks before I’ve seen both teams play their second games, but I did look back at the last few years to see how the Packers vs. Bears rivalry has been going.
In 2009 the Packers won both games (Week 1 & Week 14) by almost identical scores going 21-15 and 21-14. Both were close affairs, but wins are wins.
In 2008 the season series was split as the Packers won 37-3 at home in Week 11 and the Bears won 20-17 in overtime at Soldier Field.
Looking at the 4 games I pull out 2 pieces of information that are important to me:
1) Aaron Rodgers has a 3 wins and 1 loss record head to head against the Bears, including that tough Week 16 win in Chicago in 2009.
2) Jay Cutler is winless in his two starts against the Packers in a Bears uniform. And going back to 2007 (The Favre Era) Cutler has never beaten the Packers in 3 attempts.
So, before all the information is in I will make my pre-preview pick. This pick comes with the stipulation that I may change it based on Week 2 results, injuries, individual performances and hunches. With this ill advised and under-informed pick I will take Aaron Rodgers and the Green Bay Packers to march into Soldier Field and beat the Bears.
Come back next week for more lead up, information, stats, photos and trash talk as Week 3 and Monday Night Football get even closer!
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