Bears fans saluted Aaron Rodgers as they always do Sunday at Soldier Field.

“A lot of middle fingers,” Rodgers said.

And Rodgers saluted them right back, except this time with an actual salute to Bears fans after a successful two-point conversion all but clinched a 28-19 victory.

“You never know when it’s going to be your last time playing at a place,” Rodgers said when asked about the salute to the fans at Soldier Field. “I’ve had a lot of great moments at this place. As much as the fans don’t really like me, I do have respect for the city of Chicago and their great sports fans here, and this stadium. It’s been a lot of fun over the years to go to battle, win or lose.”

It wasn’t a vintage Aaron Rodgers performance. Playing against a short-handed Bears defense with only one starter in the secondary, Rodgers completed 18-of-31 passes for 182 yards, one touchdown and no interceptions for a pedestrian 85.7 passer rating.

“We got the dub,” Packers running back A.J. Dillon said. “That’s Aaron Rodgers for you.”

Even in leading the Packers from a 19-10 deficit late in the third quarter with 18 unanswered points in the fourth quarter, there were none of the incredible Rodgers moments that have indelibly marked this era of the Bears-Packers rivalry. The Packers did more damage on the ground, rushing 11 times for 103 yards in thee decisive drives, while Rodgers threw for 60 yards — plus a 38-yard gain on a pass interference call on a deep ball to Christian Watson.

“You definitely draw a lot of confidence and good memories off this matchup,” Rodgers said. “We’ve had a tremendous amount of success during my time against them. It’s been a special rivalry that I’ve been a part of — and there were probably a lot of people that felt good at 19-10. So did I.”

As much as Rodgers respects the Bears-Packers rivalry, he doesn’t understand it as well as he thinks. There were probably very few Bears fans who felt good at 19-10. If anything, Rodgers himself has conditioned them to fear the worst.

And he delivered. And even if it was without his signature touch, this latest victory had his fingerprints all over it. It’s no coincidence the Packers executed flawlessly in crunch time with Rodgers in command.

“We put a lot on his plate to make sure we’re in the correct run calls, and he does a great job of handling that,” coach Matt LaFleur said. “He always gives you confidence that we can execute whatever the play is.”

Rodgers’ intuition played a key role. In fact, on Watson’s clinching 46-yard touchdown run on a jet sweep that gave the Packers a 28-19 lead with 1:51 to go, Rodgers was so certain the play would work he had the forethought to ask LaFleur whether Watson should score or maintain possession to burn time.

I expected them to play some man coverage, so at the last second I ran over to the sideline to verify we weren’t in a Rolex situation, where we wanted to not score,” Rodgers said. “And I think Matt was maybe a little surprised by the question.”

LaFleur said score, Watson did, and this game was over.

“This was a different Bears team,” Rodgers said. “Obviously Jaylon [Johnson] is a super-talented player but a lot of young guys are playing outside of that, other than [DeAndre Houston-Carson].

“But they’ve got a talent young quarterback [Justin Fields] who’s got a chance to be around for a long time. A really good running back [David Montgomery]. A stud young receiver. EQ [Equanimeous St. Brown] making plays, so it was a competitive game — but [I] definitely didn’t want to be walking in here [the post-game interview room] losing to the Bears. To win against the Bears is always a little more special.”

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SACRAMENTO — There was some mop-up time in the blowout loss in Phoenix on Wednesday.

Four minutes of it to be exact.

Before that, a few minutes in the one-sided loss in New Orleans two weeks earlier.

And in between? Rookie Dalen Terry left the mop and bucket back in Chicago, and put some work in with the Windy City Bulls of the G League.

Sure, the No. 18 overall pick was hoping for more so far this season, especially with the Bulls so inconsistent from game-to-game, but the waiting game continued on Sunday.

Even with Javonte Green sidelined with a sore right knee and Alex Caruso playing with a sore ankle, there still weren’t those meaningful minutes for Terry off the bench.

And while it’s way too early to say this was how his entire season will set up, Terry admitted that it has felt like a redshirt year so far.

“It’s hard at times, but you’ve got to always know that everything happens for a reason,” Terry said. “This is basically like a redshirt year where I get to work out all the time. I know I’m not playing, but be a good teammate, be around the guys, that’s bigger than anything right now.

“I talked to a few guys. I’ve talked to DeMar [DeRozan], I’ve talked to Pat [Williams] about it, and they just keep telling me, ‘Brah, you’re on a good team. This is a blessing and a curse.’ That’s what happens when you get drafted to a good team. Sometimes you get that year to really develop and learn, but you got to sit. If I was drafted to a bad team, maybe I play a lot, but we’re a bad team. There’s pros and cons both ways. I have to just be patient and make sure I don’t change my love for the game. I know I won’t.”

There was once a defensive-minded wing named Jimmy Butler that all but “redshirted” his rookie year with the Bulls, and as coach Billy Donovan pointed out, when Joakim Noah was a freshman at Florida under Donovan, he averaged six minutes a game.

Those are the examples that Terry was holding onto.

“I still think we’re committed to his development,” Donovan said of his rookie. “The piece of the development that’s probably hard for him is he’s not getting those game minutes, which is important in player development.

“If you’re playing him in the rotation, you’re actually taking someone else out too.”

That’s the missing puzzle piece for Donovan. If Terry goes into the rotation, who does he take out? The other part of it was Terry’s shot is still not consistent enough, and the game still seems to be on fast forward when he’s out there.

“Maybe going forward we feel like let’s get him in there and his energy will help, his skillset will help,” Donovan said. “I still think the growth of him as a player is still very critical. This can’t be a wasted year with limited minutes for him. He’s got to really continue to get better. To his credit he’s done that. He’s kept himself upbeat, he’s getting in the gym, he gets in early. He’s doing all the things he needs to be doing.”

Green with injury

According to Donovan, Green suffered the knee injury late in the Golden State game. He was receiving treatment in hopes of playing against the Kings, but there was still too much soreness Sunday morning.

The Bulls don’t play until Wednesday, so the hope was Green would be available then.

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Can anyone slay the red-and-black dragon?

If so, it’s probably going to have to be the Big Ten that does it.

No. 4 Ohio State goes to Atlanta — the belly of the beast — to take the first crack at No. 1 Georgia in the Peach Bowl, one of two College Football Playoff semifinals on Dec. 31. If the Buckeyes can’t handle the unbeaten defending national champion, No. 2 Michigan could be next in line to try. The unbeaten Wolverines begin with No. 3 TCU in the Fiesta Bowl in Glendale, Arizona.

The final poll was revealed Sunday, with the playoff foursome and pairings unfolding as most expected they would. Still, critics have things to howl about, as always. Did Ohio State really deserve to get in despite getting throttled by Michigan in its last game and not playing for a conference championship? Is TCU, which didn’t lose until the Big 12 title game against Kansas State, really one of the best four teams in the country considering it opened as a 91/2-point underdog against an opponent not named Georgia? Is the playoff fully legit without Alabama, which would — and this is just a fact — be favored in a bowl matchup with any team in the land other than the big, bad Bulldogs?

This isn’t the first year things have broken heavily in favor of Ohio State during the committee’s final get-together. The Buckeyes — in the final four only because USC lost the Pac-12 title game — open as 61/2-point underdogs, a modest number that speaks to the ongoing perception that the talent level in Columbus poses a serious threat to any opponent, even an SEC superpower.

“It has been an emotional roller coaster,” coach Ryan Day said on ESPN. “But when you go through a few days where you think that maybe your whole season’s gone, and then all of a sudden you start to build hope and then you start to see the opportunity where everything’s right out in front of you, it’s almost like a second lease on life. …

“You get an opportunity to go play in this thing, you’re two games away from a national championship.”

And if the Buckeyes do beat Georgia, if onetime Heisman Trophy frontrunner C.J. Stroud outduels Stetson Bennett, if Marvin Harrison Jr. impacts the game like the best wide receiver in the country could, if Day’s sometimes-shaky defense rises up like Urban Meyer’s did to end the 2014 season — the first year of the playoff — with a national title, take a flying guess what might happen next.

An Ohio State-Michigan rematch for all the marbles. It boggles the mind just thinking about it.

Committee chair Boo Corrigan said no consideration was given to trying to avoid a Buckeyes-Wolverines repeat in the semifinal round. Maybe that’s true. Then again, it never fails to get harder to believe what the committee says the closer to the playoff we get.

The Buckeyes just plain backed in. Still, as Corrigan did the media rounds, he took pains to refer to the Buckeyes’ win against Notre Dame as a compelling one (even though it was an ugly game and the Irish are a run-of-the-mill team) and their loss to Michigan as having been more competitive than the final score indicated (it wasn’t).

“Again,” Corrigan said, “we looked at getting the right four teams.”

That’s the whole idea — for one more season after this one. Starting in 2024, the playoff will expand to 12 teams and there will be so much more to argue and complain about. It’ll be a delight.

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The White Sox and right-hander Mike Clevinger have finalized a one-year, $12 million contract.

The White Sox front office has announced the signing of free agent right-hander Mike Clevinger, Sunday, the first official day of the Winter Meetings.

The south-side franchise agreed to a one-year, $12 million deal with the free agent starter that includes a mutual option for 2024.

Clevinger, 31, went 7-7 with a 4.33 ERA over 1141⁄3 innings pitched in 22 starts and one relief appearance for the San Diego Padres in 2022.

In his first full season after recovering from a second Tommy John surgery, Clevinger from May 17 through Aug. 1 posted a 3-3 record with a 2.81 ERA in 10 games (nine starts).

The veteran joins an all-right-handed starting unit that also includes Dylan Cease, Lance Lynn, Michael Kopech and Lucas Giolito. Johnny Cueto, one of the Sox’ top starters in 2022, is a free agent.

Chicago is looking to bounce back from a disappointing 2022 season, when it went 81-81 and finished 11 games back of surprising American League Central champion Cleveland.

Hall of Fame manager Tony La Russa stepped down in October, and Pedro Grifol was hired Nov. 1.

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Bleary-eyed and frustrated, Cairo Santos didn’t try to explain away what happened Sunday.

“I just gotta do my job,” he said after a 28-19 loss to the rival Packers. “I’m done making any excuses. There’s no excuse out there. It’s frustrating. I try to put in my ‘A’ product every day. I felt like I’ve done a great job there all year — I can be confident in saying that.

“On Sunday … the extra point consistency’s not there.”

With about six minutes left in the first half, Santos pushed an extra point right. He told holder Trenton Gill he thought he made it — everything felt pure, but it faded.

Santos was 21-for-24 on extra points before Sunday, with two misses coming in the Week 1 downpour and the third in a one-point loss to the Lions.

Amazingly, he’s missed four extra points this year — and only two field goals.

One of the two missed field goals came Sunday, and it might have swung the game. With about 12 minutes left and the Bears up two, Santos’s 40-yarder was blocked by Packers defensive tackle Dean Lowry.

Rookie tackle Braxton Jones was blocking Lowry but said his “bad pad level” allowed the Northwestern alum to get his hands up. Santos didn’t believe the kick was low.

Bears coach Matt Eberflus said he talked to Santos for after the game to give him support. The kicker was already dreading having two weeks to think about the misses.

“You can’t wait for the next opportunity,” he said. “Going through a bye week, it stings even more.”

Leatherwood plays

Alex Leatherwood played his first snaps for the Bears, rotating with starting right tackle Riley Reiff.

The Bears claimed the 2021 first-round pick from the Raiders at the start of the season. Leatherwood then missed a month on the Non-Football Injury list after contracting mononucleosis. He lost 25 pounds and struggled to regain his conditioning.

“The first couple of weeks back, it was pretty rough,” he said. “There’s a lot of fatigue. … But I’m good to go now.”

Eberflus said Leatherwood had a good week of practice — an opportunity given him when Reiff missed Wednesday. Leatherwood was excited by playing well Sunday.

“Knowing that you get good blocks and people acknowledge it, it feels good,” he said. “It makes me want to go even harder, so I appreciate it.”

Claypool guts through

Six minutes into the second quarter, receiver Chase Claypool caught a 17-yard pass and twisted his right knee as he was tackled, fumbling. He went to the injury tent twice and ran on the sideline while testing a soft knee brace.

Claypool returned and finished with five catches for 28 yards.

He was unavailable after the game.

This and that

o The Bears and Packers entered Sunday’s game tied with an NFL-best 786 wins all-time. The Packers left Soldier Field with 787, marking the first time the Bears since 1921 haven’t had a share of the all-time lead.

o Fullback Khari Blasingame fell ill Saturday and was inactive. Tight end Trevon Wesco took his place but left in the first quarter with a leg injury.

Jason Lieser contributed to this story.

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Call us doubters, call us skeptics, call us heathens. We’re the people who aren’t sure about Justin Fields as a passer. We want to know if the Bears have a quarterback who has the ability to get yards not only with his legs but with his right arm.

It’s why those of us who aren’t all in on Fields’ passing just yet were impressed for the vast majority of the Bears-Packers game Sunday. It wasn’t just that the kid was hitting receivers left and right, at one point completing 11 straight passes. And it wasn’t just that he was showing off his arm on completions of 56 and 49 yards. It was that he looked like a veteran QB, calmly going through his progressions in the pocket like a couch potato perusing Netflix titles.

He was excellent, which is why late in Sunday’s game, we doubters were believing, we skeptics were climbing aboard and we heathens were asking to be baptized.

And then the last three minutes happened, with Fields throwing two interceptions and the Bears losing 28-19 at Soldier Field. Chalking that up to inexperience would be fair if everyone, me included, hadn’t been ready to write that we had just witnessed a passing of the torch from the 39-year-old Aaron Rodgers to the 23-year-old Fields. Trust me on this one. Odes were being prepared. What’s the opposite of an ode? This: The Bears can talk all they want about Fields’ leadership and talent, but there comes a time when proof is not just needed, it’s demanded. Sunday was one of those times.

Again, Fields was excellent. But he wasn’t excellent enough for long enough. It’s something of a trend.

In the first three quarters of games this season, he’s thrown a combined 10 touchdowns and four interceptions.

In the fourth quarter, he’s thrown a combined three touchdowns and six interceptions.

Sports teams have conditioned us to be mindful that everything is a “process.” We get it. Fields is learning on the job. But a process implies a payoff, with the currency being late-game heroics. Or am I missing something here?

With the Bears trailing 20-19, Packers cornerback Jaire Alexander stepped in front of Equanimeous St. Brown and picked off Fields’ pass. Fox analyst Mark Schlereth blamed Brown’s route running for the interception. You can buy that, you can ask what a former offensive lineman would know about routes, you can say St. Brown should have batted the ball down or you can blame the quarterback, which is what most Americans do in this situation. But you can’t ignore the play’s import. With the game on the line, it was a big mistake.

And then another mistake when the Bears, down 28-19, needed a miracle. Instead, Fields threw a pass meant for Dante Pettis that was too easily hauled in by the Packers’ Keisean Nixon.

Fields finished 20-of-25 for 254 yards.

“One of my best games passing-wise,” he said. “I mean, of course the stats aren’t going to show that, but I felt really comfortable out there in the passing game.”

He looked it. He threw some achingly beautiful passes, including a highlight connection with N’Keal Harry early in the fourth quarter. The injury to his non-throwing shoulder two weeks ago had offered hope that, when he returned, the Bears would have to pass more and we’d learn more about him as a passer. We did. It felt like a corner was being turned Sunday.

As usual, Fields was spectacularly entertaining. He made a cut in the first quarter that was so devastating, it made Nixon look like he was dealing with his own 7.1 magnitude earthquake. The ensuing 55-yard touchdown run was Fields’ third of more than 55 yards this season.

The next step in the “process” is quarterback-led victories. The inability to close out games isn’t just him, of course. The entire team seems to view the fourth quarter as an opportunity to knock off early.

Rodgers doesn’t have a good cast around him, either. Yet he managed to pull a game out of the emptiness of an empty season for the 5-8 Packers. For the 3-10 Bears, the postgame chatter was about a young quarterback making strides.

The next step is a big one, maybe the most important one: Fields has to start finishing what he started.

In the closing seconds of Sunday’s game, there was Fields being talked to/consoled by offensive coordinator Luke Getsy, and there was Rodgers saluting Bears fans, the same group he had mocked inside the same stadium last season. That torch hasn’t been passed just yet.

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Can anyone slay the red-and-black dragon?

If so, it’s probably going to have to be the Big Ten that does it.

No. 4 Ohio State goes to Atlanta — the belly of the beast — to take the first crack at No. 1 Georgia in the Peach Bowl, one of two College Football Playoff semifinals on Dec. 31. If the Buckeyes can’t handle the unbeaten defending national champion, No. 2 Michigan could be next in line to try. The unbeaten Wolverines begin with No. 3 TCU in the Fiesta Bowl in Glendale, Arizona.

The final poll was revealed Sunday, with the playoff foursome and pairings unfolding as most expected they would. Still, critics have things to howl about, as always. Did Ohio State really deserve to get in despite getting throttled by Michigan in its last game and not playing for a conference championship? Is TCU, which didn’t lose until the Big 12 title game against Kansas State, really one of the best four teams in the country considering it opened as a 91/2-point underdog against an opponent not named Georgia? Is the playoff fully legit without Alabama, which would — and this is just a fact — be favored in a bowl matchup with any team in the land other than the big, bad Bulldogs?

This isn’t the first year things have broken heavily in favor of Ohio State during the committee’s final get-together. The Buckeyes — in the final four only because USC lost the Pac-12 title game — open as 61/2-point underdogs, a modest number that speaks to the ongoing perception that the talent level in Columbus poses a serious threat to any opponent, even an SEC superpower.

“It has been an emotional roller coaster,” coach Ryan Day said on ESPN. “But when you go through a few days where you think that maybe your whole season’s gone, and then all of a sudden you start to build hope and then you start to see the opportunity where everything’s right out in front of you, it’s almost like a second lease on life. …

“You get an opportunity to go play in this thing, you’re two games away from a national championship.”

And if the Buckeyes do beat Georgia, if onetime Heisman Trophy frontrunner C.J. Stroud outduels Stetson Bennett, if Marvin Harrison Jr. impacts the game like the best wide receiver in the country could, if Day’s sometimes-shaky defense rises up like Urban Meyer’s did to end the 2014 season — the first year of the playoff — with a national title, take a flying guess what might happen next.

An Ohio State-Michigan rematch for all the marbles. It boggles the mind just thinking about it.

Committee chair Boo Corrigan said no consideration was given to trying to avoid a Buckeyes-Wolverines repeat in the semifinal round. Maybe that’s true. Then again, it never fails to get harder to believe what the committee says the closer to the playoff we get.

The Buckeyes just plain backed in. Still, as Corrigan did the media rounds, he took pains to refer to the Buckeyes’ win against Notre Dame as a compelling one (even though it was an ugly game and the Irish are a run-of-the-mill team) and their loss to Michigan as having been more competitive than the final score indicated (it wasn’t).

“Again,” Corrigan said, “we looked at getting the right four teams.”

That’s the whole idea — for one more season after this one. Starting in 2024, the playoff will expand to 12 teams and there will be so much more to argue and complain about. It’ll be a delight.

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Luke Getsy has earned a lot of respect this season, but it’s respect for doing things that Matt Nagy didn’t do, not things that he has done right.

Chicago Bears offensive coordinator Luke Getsy did absolutely nothing to help the Bears win a game today.  His playcalling was in a word abysmal in a game in which the Bears led by two scores.  The Bears could have gone up by more but Luke Getsy was predictable, conservative and downright baffling.  There have even been questions about if his play calling got Justin Fields injured two weeks ago. 

The Bears did everything possible to lose the game.  They took the ball out of Justin Fields hands, they ran David Montgomery up the middle on second and long and third and long situations.  They got so predictable with their bubble-screen game that Green Bay started racking up consecutive tackles for loss on the play calls.

Getsy has been extremely conservative all season.  He calls more runs on third and long than you would expect him to do.  Yes, the Bears have struggled in pass protection, yes Justin Fields hasn’t been great in obvious passing situations,  But to eliminate all hope by completely stifling your offensive attack is just irresponsible.

The Bears then go into their two-minute offense down where they have to score to win the game down one point and Justin Fields throws a late interception with a defender clearly draped on top of the receiver.  Justin Fields hasn’t been in enough two-minute offense situations so he hasn’t seen enough coverages in that situation to not make a mistake and then makes a horrible throw that costs the Bears the game.

For the Bears to be successful in 2023 they’re going to have to figure who the problem is. Is it not enough trust in Justin Fields?  Is it too conservative of play-calling from Luke Getsy?  We won’t know until 2023 because the Bears in close game in the fourth quarter have been absolutely horrible.

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The Chicago Bears couldn’t finish against the Packers

The Chicago Bears looked poised on Sunday to beat their rival for the first time in years. The Bears led 19-10 in the fourth quarter before giving up a couple of late scores to drop eight straight to the Green Bay Packers. The Packers didn’t have a great game plan, but quarterback Aaron Rodgers made enough plays to beat the Bears. He was helped by an efficient running game that gained 175 yards.

The Bears will drop to 3-10 as they head into their bye week. The loss wasn’t a complete bust for the Bears. The Bears’ offense looked competent for most of the game. Quarterback Justin Fields played well, and his wide receivers had their best game of the season. Here are three studs and duds from the Bears’ loss to the Packers in Week 13.

Studs

Justin Fields

Fields missed the Chicago Bears Week 12 game against the New York Jets. He was cleared to play earlier this week. Fields didn’t miss a beat as he picked up from where he left off against the Falcons by improving as a passer. Fields had 254 yards passing. He added another 71 on the ground.

Fields gave the Bears an excellent opportunity to beat the Packers. But the talent around him and conservative playcalling in the fourth quarter didn’t help Fields, or the Bears put the game away. (Fields threw two late interceptions where he had to force throws when the Bears trailed the Packers.)

Chicago Bears wide receivers

The Bears’ wide receivers corps had their best game of the season as a unit. They made some great grabs against a good Packers secondary. N’Keal Harry had a great route and catch against All-Pro cornerback Jaire Alexander for a 49 yard reception. (The drive ended in a missed field goal after three conservative play calls by offensive coordinator Luke Getsy. Two runs and a short pass to David Montgomery.)

Equanimeous St. Brown was the Bears leading receiver with three catches for 85 yards. Chase Claypool caught five of his six targets for 28 yards. He was featured a lot in the first half before he suffered an injury. Claypool returned to the game but didn’t seem to be used in the same way the game plan called for before the injury. Cole Kmet, not a receiver but a solid pass catcher, added six catches for 72 yards to the passing attack.

The Chicago Bears tank job

The loss dropped the Bears to 3-10. It will keep them near the top of next year’s draft board. They’re currently on course for the number two draft pick. They’re behind only the 1-9-1 Houston Texans, who the Bears have a tie-breaking win over. The Bears looked competitive without appearing to go out and beat the Packers.

The Bears’ conservative approach to offense and defense seemed like a franchise trying to lose. Or that could be Matt Eberflus’ system. There’s no way to tell with this team right now. The lack of talent on the roster makes it hard to evaluate anyone on this team. That’s the scariest part of watching the Bears this season.

Duds

Cairo Santos

Santos had a forgettable game against the Packers. The Chicago Bears kicker missed an extra point in the first half. He had a 40-yard field goal blocked in the fourth quarter that would have extended the Bears’ lead to 22-17. It was a low kick that was easily blocked by the Packers’ defense. There’s no reason the 40-yard kick had that low of a trajectory.

Chicago Bears penalties

The “S” in H.I.T.S. stands for playing smart. Nothing is smart about what these Bears are doing in December. The Chicago Bears’ secondary had several starters out with injuries against the Packers. They did well covering in the first half on the stat sheet. But they were aided by grabbing jerseys and not being called for pass interference or holding penalties.

When the Bears got flagged for those infractions in the second half, the defense gave up passing yards. The Bears had finished with five penalties for 63 yards. The Packers had just two penalties for 20 yards. The Bears should have had more. And the penalties that were called were the difference between the Bears snapping their losing streak to the Packers or waiting until next year.

Matt Eberflus

Eberflus said he wanted to play Fields if he was healthy because Eberflus is trying to win. He’s not winning. The Bears haven’t done that since October 24th. Eberflus and the Chicago Bears coaching staff risked Fields’ health to have him play in this game with a lineup missing many starters on offense and defense. Eberflus didn’t put the team in a position to succeed this season or in the future. The Playcalling set the Bears up to lose.

One wonders what the staff thinks Fields is learning this season with a poorly constructed roster. Many Bears starters against the Packers won’t be on the roster next September. If Eberflus wants to take risks on Fields’ future health to win games, he deserves to shoulder the blame when the Bears lose. And boy, are they finding ways to lose.

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