Hey, everybody, welcome to another episode of Purple Insider, presented by Fanduel, Matthew Collar here.

And welcoming back to the show ESPN's Courtney Cronin to break down Vikings and Chicago Bears.

And, you know, I look at the standings. I had to squint.

And then I had to rub my eyes. Is that the winning Chicago Bears? What the heck is going on with the

Chicago Bears being a winning football team, Courtney? How are you? I'm good. You know what I

actually thought about the other day? Do you remember when like I first moved beats and like in 2022 we were going to we were going to start this bit called what's going on with the bears and it was like this metal music riff that you would play. You just yell like, what's going on with the bears? And like that was supposed to like welcome me in. I actually had thought about that very question when I was getting ready for

this paw this morning. I'm like, I should bring that up because, yeah, first place Chicago Bears.

That's a weird freaking sentence. First, well, tied for first place with the Detroit Lions right now.

Identical six and three records. Obviously, Detroit has the tiebreaker over the bears right now because

I don't know if you watch that week two game, but Jesus, that was bad.

It's been a weird season.

I would say at week 11, they are ahead of where I thought they would be at this point,

because there's still a young quarterback who's had some good moments at the end of games,

but can't seem to do that for four quarters. You still have a play caller. there's still a young quarterback who's had some good moments at the end of games,

but can't seem to do that for four quarters. You still have a play caller who is very self-critical of what he's calling every week.

And sometimes the run game works.

Sometimes it doesn't.

Sometimes he can get the tight ends involved.

Sometimes they fall off a cliff.

But it's a team that has made good strides because I think it changed internally

of like the way that they lost games last year not being a factor in 2025 is something that's

like truly tangible. Like this is a different team. And the effects of it are a team that actually

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