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Womens Sherrick McManis Jersey , the Lions have had the Bears’ number. While other NFC North residents have found ways to beat Chicago regardless of extenuating circumstances over the years, no one took advantage of the Marc Trestman and John Fox eras of Bears football quite like Detroit. From 2013 to the somber end of 2017, the Lions defeated the Bears in nine of 10 meetings. Most of the contests remained close, one-score affairs, but it didn’t change the fact that Detroit was enjoying unparalleled success at the Bears’ expense; at least since the 1960s.Then Khalil Mack happened. An extended run of failure ceased to exist in 2018. The arrival of Mack helped (unarguably more than any other recent Bears’ addition), but so did having an energetic young coach such as Matt Nagy, and a bright young core of players bursting at the seams. The Bears restored their preferred order to the Bears-Lions universe simply by virtue of possessing a top-five NFL player in his prime, while supporting him with competent to great complementary pieces. A head coach that never got in the way was a welcome bonus.How things can flip on a dime in a calendar year. Matt Nagy has been the Bears’ head coach for 1.5 seasons and his team is in crisis mode. Caught in the thick brush of a four-game losing streak, the Bears haven’t won a game since September. They are, theoretically, more vulnerable than ever to fall to mediocre opponent after mediocre opponent. Whether the 3-4-1 Lions Charles Leno Jersey , cheap imitation of the Patriots and all, can take advantage of such a wounded animal remains to be seen. Here’s how Windy City Gridiron sees this match-up of the valley playing out.Robert Zeglinski: Lions 27, Bears 13(Sighs)Lester A. Wiltfong Jr.: Lions 17, Bears 13The Bears get a defensive touchdown to keep it close, but they fall short again. Bill Zimmerman: Bears 13, Lions 12I have no faith that the Bears can do anything right. My faith in this team is the lowest it’s been in years. That sounds like the right time to pull out a win out of nowhere.Sam Householder: Bears 16, Lions 13It’s very hard to play back-to-back games on the road in the NFL. That’s it, that’s the trend I’m going with. Jacob Infante: Lions 23, Bears 14Life is meaningless and in the end we’re all going to die.Josh Sunderbruch: Lions 19, Bears 17The Bears manage an opening drive touchdown, a defensive score http://www.thebearslockerroom.com/authentic-joel-iyiegbuniwe-jersey , and a late field goal. This somehow makes it the defense’s fault when Detroit grinds out four field goals on good field position and a kick return touchdown.WhiskeyRanger: Lions 20, Bears 17If you’ll excuse me, Jacob and I have an appointment to get our hair dyed black, and a group-on meetup at Hot Topic. Existence is pain!Erik Duerrwaechter: Bears 17, Lions 10This game will determine the Bears’ season. Robert Schmitz: Lions 23, Bears 14Tension and frustration begin to boil to the surface as the Bears drop their fifth game in a row.Ken Mitchell: Bears 24, Lions 13Because Bears.Robert maintains nothing inspires an existential crisis like watching Bears quarterbacks attempt to play quarterback. WCG Contributors: Jeff Berckes; Patti Curl; Eric Christopher Duerrwaechter; Kev H; Sam Householder; Jacob Infante; Aaron Lemming; Ken Mitchell; Steven Schweickert; Jack Silverstein; EJ Snyder; Lester Wiltfong, Jr.; Whiskey Ranger; Robert Schmitz; Robert Zeglinski; Bill Zimmerman; Like us on Facebook. It seemed as if was only yesterday when the Bears were plowing through the NFC. A three-game win streak capped by a suffocation of the Vikings had Chicago riding high and expecting greatness. They were a contender. They were going places, maybe even South Florida. This was a tight-knit team to be feared. Unfortunately this is the NFL, and nothing lasts forever in the NFL (unless you have access to Tom Brady’s $19.99 Lazarus Pits, of course).On offense Womens Nick Kwiatkoski Jersey , the Bears can’t do anything right. When they manage to create a successful play, or heaven forbid string together two consecutive moderate gains, pro football’s No. 25 offense by DVOA sputters with the agony of an engine on its last legs. If you exclude teams that aren’t trying to win, or never counted in the first place—sorry, Dolphins and Washington—the Bears have a bottom-six attack. Matt Nagy’s bumbling, inept group hasn’t ranked higher than No. 23 overall in almost two months of action. The 40-year-old coach has something of a Sophie’s choice regarding a way out of his ongoing nightmare. He either sticks with Mitchell Trubisky, a quarterback who has routinely proven incapable of making the simplest of reads and throws, or he rides with perennial backup Chase Daniel and the obvious physical limitations of a journeyman. The former isn’t showing any signs of progress or hope. The latter caps a very finite ceiling on whatever potential the Bears believed they once possessed. Barring clear divine intervention, it’s not likely this offense transcends past the NFL’s bottom feeders any time soon.There is a silver lining for Nagy. It appears his off-season obsession with fixing the Bears’ incompetent special teams play from last year paid off. (The question of whether he can multi-task remains to be seen.) Chicago is No. 1 in special teams DVOA for the first time since Dave Toub was still coordinating the third phase back in 2011. Fresh off an “Augusta Silence” summer experience, Eddy Pineiro is perfect on extra points (11-of-11) and has missed but one out of 10 field goal attempts. He’s given the Bears legitimate stability at kicker; a once unthinkable prospect after last January, and after the horrors of Parkey’s Prince Amukamara Jersey , Barth’s, and Nugent’s Past. Factor in generally solid punting from Pat O’Donnell (occasional blocked punts aside) and more cohesive downfield coverage, and you see why the Bears rank so highly. Special teams coordinator Chris Tabor’s breakthrough in the NFL happened when he was one of Toub’s assistants late last decade. For him to emulate one of his mentors has to be heartening, regardless of the Bears’ overall on-field failures. The sky might be falling at Halas Hall, but at least Tabor and company have a thin dome to protect themselves. While Robert believes in the existence of Brady’s Lazarus Pits, he is not the child of Ra’s al Ghul. 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