On the verge of the big game, Don Banks has written a great and winsome piece about the current Green Bay Packers, along with healthy doses of insight from Lombardi biography David Maraniss. The piece makes me like these guys even more, respect McCarthy a bit more, and makes me feel even more hopeful about our chances to go all the way this year.
As I indicated in my previous post, the broad consensus seems to be that the Packers will win on Sunday in Chicago. And why? Well, because most observers seem to believe that we are the better team.
Honestly, I believe that’s true. And to make the point, consider this…
Can you imagine a game on Sunday in which the Packers blow out the Bears -- run away with the victory, much the same way we did against the Giants or Falcons? I can.
Conversely, can you imagine a game on Sunday in which the Bears blow out the Packers -- dominate us, score at will on us, and beat us by double-digits? I can’t. No one has done that to us anytime this season, including the 14-2 Patriots in New England with Rodgers on our bench!
Or, look at it this way… Both the Packers and Bears won convincingly last weekend to make it to this game. The Packers beat the 13-3 Falcons in Atlanta. The Bears beat the 7-9 Seahawks in Chicago. And our win was, frankly, a more dominant win.
So I honestly do believe that the Packers are the better team.
I don’t believe, however, that the Seahawks were a better team than the Saints. But the Seahawks won.
And I still don’t really believe that the Jets are a better team than the Patriots. But the Jets won.
And so, as we head into Sunday’s Conference Championship Game, I say, “May the best team win… please!”
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