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The city grades the Bears on how they fare against the Packers.
So does the Bears’ chairman — George McCaskey famously uses the team’s twice-annual rivalry game as a measuring stick for his franchise.
That doesn’t bode well for a reeling Bears team as it prepares to play a 6-3 team that’s coming off its bye on Sunday — much less a franchise that’s beaten Green Bay only three times since Jan. 1, 2011.
“They’ve been doing really well …” tight end Cole Kmet, a lifelong Bears fan, said after Sunday’s 19-3 loss to the Patriots.