The Turk didn’t come for the Bears in Week 11.
Despite falling to 12th in the NFC playoff standings, the Bears weren’t cut from their “Sunday Night Football” game Nov. 17 against the Rams in Los Angeles. The Turk is the fictional creature that cuts players from NFL teams in training camp, but with the power of the No. 3 TV market behind them, the Bears were spared from its wrath.
Of course, having the second-ranked Los Angeles market helped keep the game from being “flexed” off of NBC, too. There also were few other choices for the league to flex into the prime-time slot (more on that later).