November 22, 2024 • 11 mins
Minnesota Tim previews the upcoming divisional matchup between the Minnesota Vikings and the Chicago Bears. He discusses the Vikings' strong record and the importance of the game in the context of the playoff race. Tim addresses the historical narrative that the Vikings struggle at Soldier Field, providing evidence to debunk this myth. He analyzes both teams' performances, focusing on the Bears' offensive struggles and the Vikings' defensive strengths. Tim concludes with his game prediction, emphasizing the need for the Vikings to score at least 20 points to secure a win.
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Speaker 1 (00:06):
It's a massive divisional matchup this weekend for the Minnesota
Vikings as they take on the four game losing streak
Chicago Bears. Because the Minnesota Vikings, even though they have
an eight and two record, they are right on the
heels of the Detroit Lions. But the Green Bay Packers
(00:28):
are also on the heels of the Minnesota Vikings, and
they face the San Francisco forty nine Ers, which is
not a lock of a win for the Packers, so
it'd be nice for the Vikings to get a little
space there, get a win versus the Bears. Have the
Packers lose against the forty nine ers, you get a
little gap.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
So it's a big weekend.
Speaker 1 (00:50):
Even though the Chicago Bears are not competing for a
playoff spot and it will not be this season, you know,
you want to continue your winning ways and and do
all of that. So we're gonna dive into a preview
of the Vikings versus Bears matchup. A few things to
look at in this game, and let's just start by
(01:11):
talking about the history. The Vikings are going to the
Soldier Field, and of course the idea or mythology I'm
gonna say is that the Minnesota Vikings never win in
Soldier Field. It's on the roads that Chicago's cold. Everyone
(01:33):
gets hurt on their grass, it's slippy. But can we
get over this idea that the Vikings never win at
Soldier Field. The last four appearances twenty twenty, Vikings win
nineteen thirteen, twenty twenty one, Vikings win seventeen to nine,
twenty twenty two, Vikings win twenty nine to thirteen, twenty
(01:57):
twenty three, Vikings win nineen thirteen. Soldier Field is not
the dreaded place that it used to be.
Speaker 2 (02:06):
The Vikings can win there.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
History has slipped itself on its head because the last
four years the Minnesota Vikings have won at Soldier Field.
So there's no reason why we should hold that against
the team anymore. You now, it used to be the
Vikings can't win at Soldier Field for at far two
(02:30):
thousand and nine. I remember it, Vikings lost a Soldier Field,
but that was fifteen years ago. This myth is just that,
it's a myth. It's something that happened a long time
ago a lot, and now we kind of carry it
into today. All the Vikings can't win a Soldier Field.
(02:50):
Oh my gosh, we gotta go to Soldier Field. It's
not true anymore, or flour and oh. In our last
four games at Soldier Field in the twenty two the
Vikings have not lost at Soldier Field against the Chicago Bears.
So you can get that idea out of your head.
You might be one thinking that going into the game
because you hear it so often. All Vikings can't win
(03:13):
a Solder Field. Oh my gosh, we're gonna lose again,
you know, market is a loss. Hopefully we beat them
at home. In fact, beating the Bears at home. Since
twenty twenty the Vikings are two and two. Okay, two
and two. Twenty twenty three they lost to the Bears
at home, twenty twenty two, and twenty twenty one they won,
and twenty twenty the Vikings lost to the Bears at home.
(03:36):
So this is a very winnable game for the Minnesota Vikings.
So let's dive into some of the details behind this game.
So the Chicago Bears ended the game with a four
and six record, and here are there wins and losses
via ESPN dot com. If you're watching this on YouTube,
(03:57):
I'll describe it to the podcast audience what I'm seeing right.
This is what stands out to me. You look at
their last four losses twenty to nineteen to the Green
Bay Packers on a blockfield goal nineteen three, Patriots twenty
nine to nine, Arizona Washington eighteen to fifteen. Caleb Williams
(04:21):
has not thrown a touchdown pass since Week six against
the Jacksonville Jaguars, which means he's.
Speaker 2 (04:28):
Not on his game.
Speaker 1 (04:30):
The Minnesota Vikings defense should be able to dominate the
Chicago Bears offense, but what is going to make this
game challenging is that the Chicago Bears defense is legit.
Only three times this season have they given up twenty
or more points. They did it against the Packers on Sunday,
(04:52):
they did it against the Arizona Cardinals on Sunday November third,
they get twenty nine points, and then they did it
earlier in the year year against the Indianapolis Colts where
they lost twenty one to sixteen. So the goal for
the Minnesota Vikings offense on Sunday is to score twenty
points because.
Speaker 2 (05:13):
If they do that, there is no way the.
Speaker 1 (05:16):
Minnesota Vikings should lose this game. That's the goal, whether
it's by field goals or touchdowns score twenty points because
the Chicago Bears offense is so inept that that should
be enough. This feels like a ballgame that will be
low scoring just because of the two teams going at
(05:37):
each other. Good defenses. Offenses have been up and down, well,
the Bears offense hasn't been mostly down recently. The Vikings
offense showed a lot against the Tennessee Titans. They all
put up twenty three points though, and against the Colts
often struggled. Against the Jaguars offense struggled, So the Minnesota
(05:58):
Vikings offense they got a tune up against the Tennessee Titans,
which is a good thing before this matchup. So this
kind of feels like a very low scoring ballgame. But
the Minnesota Vikings goal needs to be to score twenty
points in this game because the Chicago Bears are owen
three when that happens. And then you look at the
(06:21):
Chicago Bears wins twenty four to seventeen. They beat the
Titans twenty four eighteen, they beat the Rams thirty six
to ten, they beat Carolina thirty five sixteen, they beat Jacksonville,
so a lot of their wins besides the Rams game,
which the Rams didn't have most of their key players
yet in that game are against bottom feeders in the
league Jaguars, Panthers, Titans, and then the Rams without Puka
(06:45):
Nakua or Cooper Cup. So there's no way the Vikings
should lose this game. And they lost to the Washington
Commanders eighteen fifteen on a hail Mary twenty nine to nine,
Arizona nineteen to three, New England Green Bay twenty ninth.
So the Chicago Bears offense, you know, they've been really
bad recently, but they've been inconsistent throughout this season. Caleb
(07:07):
Williams went on a small early season a run where
he's putting together touchdown passes, but like I mentioned earlier,
he has not thrown a touchdown pass since Week six.
And Brian Flores I expect, and I think most people
expect him to dominate Caleb Williams in this game. Rookies
are one in seven against teams with a Brian Flores
(07:32):
defensive coordinator or head coach. Okay, when Brian Flores is
the defensive coordinator head coach teams are rookies are one
and seven. Okay, they struggle offenses with rookie signal play
callers average fifteen and a half points scored and three
point eight sacks allowed per game. They have nine giveaways
and seven total touchdowns. So Brian Flores's defense mess with
(07:58):
opposing offensive coordinators opposing young rookies.
Speaker 2 (08:02):
And we saw that earlier in the year. CJ.
Speaker 1 (08:04):
Stroud talked about Brock Perdy talked about it, and I
would expect Caleb Williams to talk about it as well.
And I'm getting that stat courtesy of Vikings dot com
and Vikings dot com. They do a good job previewing
the game and giving some stats and some statistics coming
from players and things like that. Here's a good one
(08:26):
from Vikings dot com. It says, I'll share the screen
with those YouTube butchers who can follow along with me.
It says in ten games, Williams has clipped sixty one
point eight percent of his throws for twoenty sixteen yards
and rushed forty nine times for three h six He
recently produced the strangest stat. Williams is the first quarterback
(08:50):
per ALIAS with twenty plus attempts without a touchdown or
interception in four straight contests. His last touchdown pass was
October thirteenth, before the Bears went on a bye week
in Week seven, So you would expect that the Minnesota
Vikings would be able to slow down the Bears offensively.
(09:14):
If the Bears score more than twenty points in this ballgame,
something went wrong on the Minnesota Vikings defense because they
have historically this season proven that they can't do that.
Was the last name to score twenty points Week six
against the crappy Jaguars, so it shouldn't happen here against
(09:38):
the Minnesota Vikings.
Speaker 2 (09:40):
I'm looking at some other stats.
Speaker 1 (09:42):
Last game of a three grub what good? Second here?
What's going on here? Last game of the three game
road trip for the Vikings. They had to travel to Jacksonville,
they had to travel to the Titans, they had to
(10:03):
travel to Chicago. And what was so good about the
scheduling this year is that the Vikings played the forty
nine ers at home, they played the Texans at home,
two tough matchups that.
Speaker 2 (10:17):
Would have been hard to win on the road.
Speaker 1 (10:20):
And they've got the easy matchups on the road JAG's
on the road, Titans on the road, and Chicago Bears.
Of course they're a divisional matchups, so he played them
on the road every year. So prediction in this ballgame,
I'm gonna predict that the Minnesota Vikings win this football game.
Speaker 2 (10:45):
Sixteen to thirteen.
Speaker 1 (10:47):
I was gonna say twenty one to sixteen, but it
feels like the Vikings are not going to score a
touchdown in every single possession. Okay, the Chicago Bears defense
is good, but the Chicago Bears offense is bad. So
I think it's going to be a low scoring, ugly
football game.
Speaker 2 (11:06):
You've got to.
Speaker 1 (11:08):
Somehow manage your way through turnovers and through mistakes from
both sides, and the Minnesota Vikings come away with a
victory sixteen to thirteen, and they moved to five to
zero at Soldier Field in the last five games. Remember,
don't believe the myth that they can't win in Chicago.
(11:31):
They can, and they have and they should this weekend
as well
It's a massive divisional matchup this weekend for the Minnesota
Vikings as they take on the four game losing streak
Chicago Bears. Because the Minnesota Vikings, even though they have
an eight and two record, they are right on the
heels of the Detroit Lions. But the Green Bay Packers
(00:28):
are also on the heels of the Minnesota Vikings, and
they face the San Francisco forty nine Ers, which is
not a lock of a win for the Packers, so
it'd be nice for the Vikings to get a little
space there, get a win versus the Bears. Have the
Packers lose against the forty nine ers, you get a
little gap.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
So it's a big weekend.
Speaker 1 (00:50):
Even though the Chicago Bears are not competing for a
playoff spot and it will not be this season, you know,
you want to continue your winning ways and and do
all of that. So we're gonna dive into a preview
of the Vikings versus Bears matchup. A few things to
look at in this game, and let's just start by
(01:11):
talking about the history. The Vikings are going to the
Soldier Field, and of course the idea or mythology I'm
gonna say is that the Minnesota Vikings never win in
Soldier Field. It's on the roads that Chicago's cold. Everyone
(01:33):
gets hurt on their grass, it's slippy. But can we
get over this idea that the Vikings never win at
Soldier Field. The last four appearances twenty twenty, Vikings win
nineteen thirteen, twenty twenty one, Vikings win seventeen to nine,
twenty twenty two, Vikings win twenty nine to thirteen, twenty
(01:57):
twenty three, Vikings win nineen thirteen. Soldier Field is not
the dreaded place that it used to be.
Speaker 2 (02:06):
The Vikings can win there.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
History has slipped itself on its head because the last
four years the Minnesota Vikings have won at Soldier Field.
So there's no reason why we should hold that against
the team anymore. You now, it used to be the
Vikings can't win at Soldier Field for at far two
(02:30):
thousand and nine. I remember it, Vikings lost a Soldier Field,
but that was fifteen years ago. This myth is just that,
it's a myth. It's something that happened a long time
ago a lot, and now we kind of carry it
into today. All the Vikings can't win a Soldier Field.
(02:50):
Oh my gosh, we gotta go to Soldier Field. It's
not true anymore, or flour and oh. In our last
four games at Soldier Field in the twenty two the
Vikings have not lost at Soldier Field against the Chicago Bears.
So you can get that idea out of your head.
You might be one thinking that going into the game
because you hear it so often. All Vikings can't win
(03:13):
a Solder Field. Oh my gosh, we're gonna lose again,
you know, market is a loss. Hopefully we beat them
at home. In fact, beating the Bears at home. Since
twenty twenty the Vikings are two and two. Okay, two
and two. Twenty twenty three they lost to the Bears
at home, twenty twenty two, and twenty twenty one they won,
and twenty twenty the Vikings lost to the Bears at home.
(03:36):
So this is a very winnable game for the Minnesota Vikings.
So let's dive into some of the details behind this game.
So the Chicago Bears ended the game with a four
and six record, and here are there wins and losses
via ESPN dot com. If you're watching this on YouTube,
(03:57):
I'll describe it to the podcast audience what I'm seeing right.
This is what stands out to me. You look at
their last four losses twenty to nineteen to the Green
Bay Packers on a blockfield goal nineteen three, Patriots twenty
nine to nine, Arizona Washington eighteen to fifteen. Caleb Williams
(04:21):
has not thrown a touchdown pass since Week six against
the Jacksonville Jaguars, which means he's.
Speaker 2 (04:28):
Not on his game.
Speaker 1 (04:30):
The Minnesota Vikings defense should be able to dominate the
Chicago Bears offense, but what is going to make this
game challenging is that the Chicago Bears defense is legit.
Only three times this season have they given up twenty
or more points. They did it against the Packers on Sunday,
(04:52):
they did it against the Arizona Cardinals on Sunday November third,
they get twenty nine points, and then they did it
earlier in the year year against the Indianapolis Colts where
they lost twenty one to sixteen. So the goal for
the Minnesota Vikings offense on Sunday is to score twenty
points because.
Speaker 2 (05:13):
If they do that, there is no way the.
Speaker 1 (05:16):
Minnesota Vikings should lose this game. That's the goal, whether
it's by field goals or touchdowns score twenty points because
the Chicago Bears offense is so inept that that should
be enough. This feels like a ballgame that will be
low scoring just because of the two teams going at
(05:37):
each other. Good defenses. Offenses have been up and down, well,
the Bears offense hasn't been mostly down recently. The Vikings
offense showed a lot against the Tennessee Titans. They all
put up twenty three points though, and against the Colts
often struggled. Against the Jaguars offense struggled, So the Minnesota
(05:58):
Vikings offense they got a tune up against the Tennessee Titans,
which is a good thing before this matchup. So this
kind of feels like a very low scoring ballgame. But
the Minnesota Vikings goal needs to be to score twenty
points in this game because the Chicago Bears are owen
three when that happens. And then you look at the
(06:21):
Chicago Bears wins twenty four to seventeen. They beat the
Titans twenty four eighteen, they beat the Rams thirty six
to ten, they beat Carolina thirty five sixteen, they beat Jacksonville,
so a lot of their wins besides the Rams game,
which the Rams didn't have most of their key players
yet in that game are against bottom feeders in the
league Jaguars, Panthers, Titans, and then the Rams without Puka
(06:45):
Nakua or Cooper Cup. So there's no way the Vikings
should lose this game. And they lost to the Washington
Commanders eighteen fifteen on a hail Mary twenty nine to nine,
Arizona nineteen to three, New England Green Bay twenty ninth.
So the Chicago Bears offense, you know, they've been really
bad recently, but they've been inconsistent throughout this season. Caleb
(07:07):
Williams went on a small early season a run where
he's putting together touchdown passes, but like I mentioned earlier,
he has not thrown a touchdown pass since Week six.
And Brian Flores I expect, and I think most people
expect him to dominate Caleb Williams in this game. Rookies
are one in seven against teams with a Brian Flores
(07:32):
defensive coordinator or head coach. Okay, when Brian Flores is
the defensive coordinator head coach teams are rookies are one
and seven. Okay, they struggle offenses with rookie signal play
callers average fifteen and a half points scored and three
point eight sacks allowed per game. They have nine giveaways
and seven total touchdowns. So Brian Flores's defense mess with
(07:58):
opposing offensive coordinators opposing young rookies.
Speaker 2 (08:02):
And we saw that earlier in the year. CJ.
Speaker 1 (08:04):
Stroud talked about Brock Perdy talked about it, and I
would expect Caleb Williams to talk about it as well.
And I'm getting that stat courtesy of Vikings dot com
and Vikings dot com. They do a good job previewing
the game and giving some stats and some statistics coming
from players and things like that. Here's a good one
(08:26):
from Vikings dot com. It says, I'll share the screen
with those YouTube butchers who can follow along with me.
It says in ten games, Williams has clipped sixty one
point eight percent of his throws for twoenty sixteen yards
and rushed forty nine times for three h six He
recently produced the strangest stat. Williams is the first quarterback
(08:50):
per ALIAS with twenty plus attempts without a touchdown or
interception in four straight contests. His last touchdown pass was
October thirteenth, before the Bears went on a bye week
in Week seven, So you would expect that the Minnesota
Vikings would be able to slow down the Bears offensively.
(09:14):
If the Bears score more than twenty points in this ballgame,
something went wrong on the Minnesota Vikings defense because they
have historically this season proven that they can't do that.
Was the last name to score twenty points Week six
against the crappy Jaguars, so it shouldn't happen here against
(09:38):
the Minnesota Vikings.
Speaker 2 (09:40):
I'm looking at some other stats.
Speaker 1 (09:42):
Last game of a three grub what good? Second here?
What's going on here? Last game of the three game
road trip for the Vikings. They had to travel to Jacksonville,
they had to travel to the Titans, they had to
(10:03):
travel to Chicago. And what was so good about the
scheduling this year is that the Vikings played the forty
nine ers at home, they played the Texans at home,
two tough matchups that.
Speaker 2 (10:17):
Would have been hard to win on the road.
Speaker 1 (10:20):
And they've got the easy matchups on the road JAG's
on the road, Titans on the road, and Chicago Bears.
Of course they're a divisional matchups, so he played them
on the road every year. So prediction in this ballgame,
I'm gonna predict that the Minnesota Vikings win this football game.
Speaker 2 (10:45):
Sixteen to thirteen.
Speaker 1 (10:47):
I was gonna say twenty one to sixteen, but it
feels like the Vikings are not going to score a
touchdown in every single possession. Okay, the Chicago Bears defense
is good, but the Chicago Bears offense is bad. So
I think it's going to be a low scoring, ugly
football game.
Speaker 2 (11:06):
You've got to.
Speaker 1 (11:08):
Somehow manage your way through turnovers and through mistakes from
both sides, and the Minnesota Vikings come away with a
victory sixteen to thirteen, and they moved to five to
zero at Soldier Field in the last five games. Remember,
don't believe the myth that they can't win in Chicago.
(11:31):
They can, and they have and they should this weekend
as well
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