Packers vs. Bears Analysis: Playoff Implications & Bets

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00:00We'll start the Green Bay Packers. They're going to go up against the Chicago Bears.

00:03They are now a ten and a half point favor. We did just get some of the

00:06inactive reports that are going to be coming out. Christian Watson is active.

00:11Why? Romeo Dobbs is out, though, with an illness. I understand that the Green Bay Packers are...

00:21I don't really understand, actually. Like, the Bears are lifeless, right?

00:27Jordan Love's not been the pillar of health this season.

00:31You don't control your own destiny at all. Look, I think these are the best team in football,

00:36so I understand not wanting to go into that battle. The Green Bay Packers are...

00:42Listen, I mean, the game against Minnesota may be shifted, but before the way that game went,

00:48how it did against Minnesota, I feel like the Packers are the second best team in the NFC.

00:52The look-ahead line has Green Bay only a field goal underdog against the Eagles. You're not

00:58drawn dead. I don't... They're going out there, Donnie, ten-bell effort against the Chicago Bears

01:04here today. See, if I ran the Packers, they would be playing no starters today. Okay, the Dallas

01:09Cowboys upset the, you know, Washington Commanders, so be it at this point, but you still have to play

01:14percentages, right? And then we do handicapping, like analytics. It's playing the percentages

01:18which make the right decision, which don't always turn out to be right, because the same way, hey,

01:22you should always go for it. You don't always get the first down, but hear me out on this.

01:25The Philadelphia Eagles are at home right now, resting for you, per se, next week. You're going

01:31to go all out in a football game that you think that Washington is going to win, which renders

01:35this game meaningless, and to your point, Christian Watson's got a banged-up knee. Yeah, give it a go.

01:39Have a couple plays in the frozen tundra of Lambeau Field, and also, we always think about

01:44worst-case, like, oh, he got blew out his knee or he hurt his Achilles. How about just a simple

01:48concussion, and you don't play next week? How about a twisted ankle when I'm rolling out of

01:51the pocket for your quarterback? Oh, I'm not playing next week. And maybe you could voice it,

01:55for me, as the Green Bay Packers going full gas, because why? The Philadelphia Eagles had to win

01:59their game today to solidify the number two overall seed, which could have been a scenario

02:02had they not won last week. You say, okay, well, we get them even footing. You're not. The Eagles

02:06are at home. They'll be rested. When you went full gas in a meaningless football game, I don't get it.

02:11I still don't get it. Yeah, I would take a different approach. I would, and the reason

02:14why I say that is I don't think their offenses looked all that good, and I know they only lost

02:18by two points to Minnesota. They were getting absolutely kicked in the teeth, 27 to 10,

02:24for much of that game. When they run the football consistently with Josh Jacobs,

02:27they're an effective football team, but you look at Jordan Love over the last four weeks, Kev,

02:31he's only averaged 200 and a half passing yards per game. Granted, game flow is played into some

02:37of those performances, but I don't think he's looked consistent to me. You're playing a dead

02:41team in terms of Chicago that has lost 10 straight by an average margin of defeat of 10.9 points per

02:47game. They're 0-7 on the road this year, have lost those games by an average margin of defeat

02:52of 11.4 points per game. If I'm at LeFleur, I'm not going in potentially to Philadelphia or any

02:59type of situation. With my quarterback playing that way, I think they open it up. One of my

03:03better bets today, I did take Jordan Love up to 250. I think they smashed the Chicago Bears today.

03:09But also, just again, from looking at it, because I do agree, the sentiment does make some sense,

03:14but the reason why, again, we look at the Philadelphia Eagles on resting players,

03:17did you watch week 18 last year where the Eagles went into the Meadowlands to take on the Giants?

03:22Same scenario, Joe. Not playing good football. Let's get our offense in order. Jalen Hurts on

03:26his throwing hand dislocates a finger. A.J. Brown was lost for the season. They got knelted the next

03:31week. So I think like rest, hey, let's take a step back. Let's see what happens in this game.

03:35We'll play it maybe even for a first quarter. Oh, look, 14-point lead for Washington. Everybody's

03:39out. We're on to Philadelphia. And I understand what football coaches coach and GMs coach and

03:44some fans out there, hey, we didn't earn anything. Let's get our offense going. I get it. But the

03:48minute you get one player injured, like the Baltimore Ravens in a meaningful football game,

03:52lose a flowers ago, man, that really hurts. You would hate to lose anybody in a game.

03:56That means absolutely nothing.

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