Truth be told, i have no idea what to feel in this situation. During the White Sox run 2 years ago, i had gone to see tonnes of games during the regular season and felt the world series win was inevitable. Add to it the fact that i was in India for most of the playoffs, this is a new experience for me.
The team that defines Chicago as the hard-nosed blue-collared city that it is, is now 120 minutes away from a SuperBowl win (about 360-400 with commercials, time-outs and maybe overtime). When you simplify it further, they are about 17-20 great plays (not good plays, great plays) from being on top of the sporting world. Brian U had 21 tackles during the famous "Crown thier a$$" win on Monday night, out of which there were about 10 great plays in the fourth quarter alone.
Last week the Bears had about 5 great plays, The Bernard Berrian Bomb, the Thomas Jones save where he batted down a sure interception, the 2 stops on 3rd down and 4th down in regulation and OT and the Robbie Gould kick. The Bears barely squeaked out that win. Just imagine if there were 2 more great plays (Rex complete to Moose instead of the interception and the Hester touchdown not nullified by the penalty), the win would have been a blowout by 2 TDs.
If the Bears would need 7 great plays to win convincingly against the Seabags, they would need atleast 2 more against thier next 2 opponents.
That is what will take to squeak out the next 2 wins, 9 great plays in each game. yes Rex will have to be good, the running game has to be good, the defense has to be good but that should be the norm for a 14-3 team.
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