Well, for once, the national media may be supporting the Bears.

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Yes, I did say what I just said.

The national media, to an extent, is supporting the Bears.

And it's not ESPN because they never do. It's

Sports Illustrated. Sports Illustrated came out recently with a list of 100 bold predictions for the

2023 NFL season. Three of them involved the Bears. So we're going to go through each one of them

and see whether or not they're achievable. But I have to say this author of this piece,

which is Connor Orr.

In Sports Illustrated, it was very generous towards the Bears.

Maybe he didn't want to be hated on Twitter.

First bowl prediction is that Justin Fields won't more than 40 total touchdowns.

Very interesting. I think it's doable. Here's what he said.

Quote, I don't think this is a brave prediction by any stretch. Even if field scored only 25 total

touchdowns last year, the Bears got better everywhere offensively, and at the very minimum,

it's going to further stress a defense that still has to account for fields leaving the pocket.

Luc Getzzi, who will get a head coaching job after this year,

that's scary, gets to keep a supported field with the year of the scheme under his belt.

Yeah, I could see this happening. And we've talked about this a number of times. What are fair

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