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Dan Bernstein Unfiltered is brought to you in partnership with my bookie. And the bears now find

themselves at 9 and 4 and they have slipped down in the playoff rankings. But there's a lot of football left, and that's okay.

This is what real life in the NFL feels like.

And you can have all the fun you want with a coach taking his shirt off and free hot dogs and front running.

But the reality is very little separates good teams as we get into the nut cutting time when it

comes to playoff seating.

And this is what you want.

Now the bears are playing this level of game right now.

And what it does is it makes this weekend's game, this Sunday's game, a must win.

You've got a team coming in here with three wins.

And it's time to win these games you're supposed to win and knock them out early.

Come right after him, punch him in the mouth.

You don't want to have to exert yourself too much in a game like this.

And I know it's football and every game gets crazy and the bears have had to block kicks at the ends of games to beat bad teams.

But here's a really, really good opportunity to back up what a lot of us are saying,

that they're better now.

They are clearly a better team than they were when they were trying to scrounge out wins

against some of the lesser lights.

This is a team you should put away.

And we know they can rush the passer.

We know the defense is real.

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