The Bears do not have the talent to win this game. The new GM and HC nuked the roster, keeping only a handful of players from the Nagy regime. Strangely enough, some of the best players were let go. I "get it" that the new GM wants to tear it all down and build it back up from scorched earth. But 2022 is going to be painful for Bears fans to watch.

Gone are guys like Khalil Mack, who had one hell of a good day for the Chargers (six tackles, five solo, three sacks and one forced fumble during Sunday's win over the Raiders). Eddie Goldman, Tarik Cohen, Christian Jones, Trevathan, Ogletree, Gibson, Bush, Attaochu, Akiem Hicks... well, you get the idea. It was a major youth movement. We didn't have many draft picks left (and no 1st round pick) so the new GM traded down to get 10 lower round guys, and signed a small army of undrafted kids. The cap $ was wrecked by the past GM so there was no money to get decent veteran help. He went dumpster-diving for people to fill out the roster... even got 7 dudes off the waiver wire (the old "one man's trash" thing).

The Bears went from being one of the oldest rosters in the NFL to being one of the youngest. The OL they cobbled together has a 5th round rookie at LT "protecting" Fields' blind side. The RT is a 5th round youngster in his second year. Another second year guy is at RG. The Bears did sign a decent C from Green Bay but he promptly broke his hand. His replacement is Sam Mustipher an undrafted guy who gets savaged like a rag doll when he plays C.

We did have one decent WR1, Allen Robinson. He was let go too. He's playing for the Rams now. The Bears are installing new schemes in all three phases, O, D and STs with this cobbled-together youth roster.

Over on our Bears messageboard, pretty much everybody figures the Packers win this one. And coming off that embarrassing loss to the Vikings, it could be a very very rough night for the Bears. The Bears did win against the 49ers last week. They were helped by a really bad Trey Lance (that dude sucks), and a crazy heavy day of thunderstorms (standing water on Soldier Field) in a mudder game. Oh, and Justin Fields' passer rating for the first half of that game was (wait for it) 2.8. That's not a typo. Two point eight.

LOL, if any of you can see this as being ANYTHING other than an easy 11-on-11 type drill for Aaron Rodgers in prime time on Sunday, I'd love to hear about it