In case two meaningful Bears games in 85 hours wasn't enough, tonight's Monday Night Football ubermatchup may actually have more Bears implications than you'd think.
I know. How could you possibly root for the bane of #BearsTwitter's exisistence, Pat Mahomes?! RyAn PaCe ShOuLd hAvE dRaFtEd HiM iNsTeAd, and all that.
But here's why, for one three-hour stretch on one night for one week, you should invest your emotional wellbeing in the Kansas City Chiefs:
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- It's a good way to scout the competition. The Rams come into Chicago for a Sunday Night Showdown (patent pending) in a little under three weeks. Tonight's game gives the Bears' coaching staff -- who surely are a bit more familiar with the Chiefs than other teams -- a great chance to see how to gameplan against the absurdly-talented yet weirldy-underperforming Rams defense.
- Friends, it's almost time to talk about not just clinching a playoff spot, but clinching a high seed. Right now the Rams are 9-1. Should they lose tonight, that would make them 9-2. Hope I haven't lost you yet. And should they both beat the Lions (and the Bears beat the Giants), that would mean December 9th's game at Soldier Field would feature a 10-2 Rams team vs. a 9-3 Bears squad. Basically, a Chiefs win tonight gives the Bears an opportunity to play their way into the two seed. THE TWO SEED.
- Jared Goff-Sean McVay seems to be the trendy comparison when talking about the potential of Matt Nagy and Mitch Trubisky. Watching them lose on primetime 24 hours after Nagy-Trubisky won on primetime would be briefly vindicating if nothing else.
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