Good morning. The Bears are back in the playoffs for the second time in three years.
Granted, after the drubbing they suffered in the fourth quarter against the Packers, they made it when the Cardinals lost to the Rams, and they enter today’s game having downgraded Darnell Mooney and Roquan Smith to out while the Saints bring back Michael Thomas and Alvin Kamara, but they’re in the playoffs!
We’ll take it how we get it, I guess.
The last time these two faced off in week 8, the Bears took a 13-3 lead before Jared Cook caught a touchdown pass at the end of the first half; in the final four minutes of the game down 10 points, Mooney caught a touchdown pass from Nick Foles and Cairo Santos knocked a 51-yarder through the uprights to force overtime before the Bears eventually dropped the game in OT.