All right, here we go. Divisional Round, X's and Hogue's, Bears and Rams Soldier Field.

It's going to be a lot of fun. Let's dive right in. 5.30 Sunday night on NBC.

Kickoff after sunset can be nice and cold for the Rams coming in from L.A.

They are still favored by three and a half points, though.

Coming off their 34 to 31 victory at Carolina

last week certainly was not easy. We're going to dive into some of those reasons. Of course,

their head coach is Sean McVeigh. Some chatter about how he's close and good friends with Matt

LaFleur. Well, yeah, Matt LaFleur's brother is Mike LaFleur, their offensive coordinator. So yeah,

if there's any carryover and all that, I don't really buy into it too much. But, yeah, I'm sure Michael Flore would like to go get a little bit of revenge for his brother this week. Chris Schula is their defensive coordinator. He's getting an interview for a lot of head coaching jobs, so he's got that going on this week. And then interesting special team situation. You almost never

see this. A coordinator on a good team let go so late in the year. They now have been Kotwaka.

I hope I'm saying that right there, interim special teams coordinator. Special teams has been a mess for

the Rams this year. It's been a little bit better since they made the switch,

but they did give up a block punt last week. Harrison Mivas is their kicker. They call him the

thicker kicker. And I'm mentioning him because that really is his nickname out of Missouri.

He's actually been pretty good lately and was good in windy conditions last week against Carolina. So we know that's going to be a factor with the wind on Sunday night. Who handles it better? It's going to be tough for Mivas coming in from L.A. But he has been decent. He has been handling. Of course, Cairo Santos, we know, has been handling it very well. We look at the EPA per play matchup, and the Rams are good. Obviously, they're fifth defensively, although that's slipped a lot lately. So that's on the course of the whole season. They're probably not quite as good as fifth right now. Offensively, we know they're really good across the board. Their third Bears offense, eighth, top ten offense, and we know there's still room for improvement there, and then the Bears D, still hanging on.

They're still hanging on, and they look pretty good in the fourth quarter, but they are ranked 20th right now overall.

The offensive similarities here are super interesting to me, so I want to go through a few things.

The amount of under center both of these offenses used, the Rams do it more than anybody.

They rank first. Bears are fifth, fifth most under center.

Play action. Rams number one, Bears number two, 13 personnel.

Rams do it more than anybody.

The Bears have done a lot of 13 personnel this year.

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