Saturday, November 29th, 2025. I didn't record yesterday. I've been trying to do these audios in the aftermath of the football games, where I've had a few beers, I've got a little manufactured energy, and I sort of go off on a rant. I deliberately didn't do that yesterday, because I didn't want to say things like Super Bowl on the recording. I was stunned by that game yesterday, and this team has not been able to stun me for a very long time. I was stunned. The context of yesterday cannot be forgotten in the aftermath of the result. That was a desperate Philadelphia Eagles team, with the Dallas Cowboys now breathing down their necks, with a fan base that, as you heard yesterday, was ready to kill someone in the parking lot. They were as fired up as I've heard a crowd all year long. They have been hearing it since the debacle against Dallas from the press. The coach who just won a Super Bowl was under fire. The quarterback has had to make excuses. All that being said, it's still a great defensive line and still a great defense. And the Bears went in there on a short week and manhandled it. I'm not sugarcoating it. I'm not providing caveats. The score is what the score is, and the Eagles did make it competitive there down the stretch. But even with the Bears' mistakes, and they made a bunch of them yesterday, they manhandled the Philadelphia Eagles. If you were looking at those two teams yesterday and saying, which team do you think can make a run in the postseason? It's the team that ran for 300 yards against the Philly front line. Go look at the stats against that defense in the months leading up to this game. Nobody did. Nobody did. What the Chicago Bears did yesterday. You talk about a culture change, and I tend to find phrases like that to be, if not downright horseshit, at least overrated. But what has happened to this organization since the arrival of Ben Johnson, if it's not a culture change, what is it? Because in my lifetime, my lifetime, I'm 43 years old. I turned 44 in January. Not since the 1980s do I remember a Bears team that would go on the road and do what this team did. Maybe the heyday 05-06 lovey Bears, but that was all defense. Yeah, they ran the ball, and they had a little sprint there in early 2006 where Rex was thrown for like four touchdowns a week. But most of that was done on defense. This is a team that offensively bullied one of the best defenses in the league yesterday. And I honestly, looking at how the Chicago media has covered it, I don't think anybody was prepared for what happened. I know we talk a lot about gambling. The Bears were seven-point underdogs yesterday. That's a big line in the modern NFL. That's a substantial underdog. And they won by nine, and they could have won by more. They gave that last drive up. This was the kind of performance that can define a season because now as they head to Green Bay for a very difficult game next week, there will be no more talk about all the close calls. There will be no more talk about a football team that couldn't beat good teams or didn't play teams with a winning record or who have they beaten, what quarterbacks have they faced. The talk is over. Because after yesterday and after that performance, the Chicago Bears have stamped their 2025. And the stamp just says, we're fucking good. We're not lucky. We're good. I say this all the time. I write this all the time. People consider me a broken record on it. But I'm serious about this. I learned this from the coaches I've talked to. I've learned this from broadcasters who I've respected and loved like Mike and the Mad Dog for years. And old football writers used to always say this. You don't start evaluating what you are as a team until you see who is healthy and how you're playing after Thanksgiving. Well, the Bears play the first game after Thanksgiving, and that's what they are. And that's what they're going to be down the stretch. And that's who they could potentially be in January. This team now is starting to really take form. And if they are going to play on the offensive line the way they played yesterday against one of the best defensive fronts in the sport, folks, there's nobody in this wide-open league they can't beat. If their offensive line can play the way they played yesterday in Green Bay, I don't care. In L.A., I don't care. Against Cleveland's D-line, which is great, I don't care. If the offensive line plays the way they played yesterday, there is nobody, nobody this 2025 Chicago Bears team can't beat. Today and tomorrow are great days if you're a Bears fan. Watch some college football, a little Premier League today, Ohio State, Michigan. Throw that red zone on tomorrow. Check out the league. See how everybody's doing. Root against the Niners. But what you're doing these next couple of days is starting to sit with the reality. And the reality is this is no longer 8-3 with an asterisk. This is 9-3 with an exclamation point. This is a damn good football team. Bear down.