Strike up the band, the bears clinch a playoff birth.

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it's the House of L podcast. I'm Lauren Tomes.

So many things, so many things to say about this game.

Where's Dave Matthews?

Okay, let's start with the obvious. The Packers are better than the Bears

and they have a better quarterback who is able to change the game when change is needed.

He's all world, he's probably going to be MVP MVP and he lit the bears up. You saw a moment

where you really valued Brian Erlacker in this game and it's the moment where the bears get beat on the

Blitz and they get beat on the Blitz and Danny Trevathan is is tailing

behind the receiver and you're like oh no that's where you learn like how

good Brian Erlacker was at that mug technique

where you then have to get back and cover the middle third of the field.

That's how you know that he was an all-world player

because Dan on that play. I like a lot of people I'm not sure how to feel about any of this.

It doesn't feel like the Bears deserve to be in the playoffs so it's hard to

celebrate them being in the playoffs. That's probably as succinctly as I can say

it, but the good news is that I can say it.

But the good news is that I have a podcast

so I can keep going on different parts of the Bears issues

and so on and so forth.

Let's start with the game plan. What if I told you that I thought the Bears had a great game plan

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