Did everyone just forget what happened in the opening 58 minutes?

Turn on the TV, scroll social media. You will see the same story. It’s Caleb Williams this, the Chicago Bears that. Had Romeo Doubs held onto the onside kick, nobody would be talking about a Bears team that got outplayed by the Green Bay Packers without their franchise quarterback, Pro Bowl running back, star right tackle, and all-world pass-rusher.

All of a sudden, the world has forgotten about the Packers. But that’s their mistake. Pete Prisco of CBS Sports summed it up perfectly.

“If they recover the onside kick, are we even having this conversation despite the fact that Jordan Love was hurt in that game?” Prisco said. “All they had to do was recover the onside kick, and they’re probably going to go out and win the division. And now all of a sudden alarms are going off that they’re not a good football team. And I don’t buy that. They outplayed the Bears for most of that game.”

“I think they’ll get in the playoffs, and if they get in the playoffs and Jordan Love’s back, they’re going to be a dangerous team.”

Pete Prisco is 100 percent about everyone bizarrely writing off the Packers after loss to Bears

It’s so true. One two-minute meltdown, and suddenly the Bears are an elite team? The Packers finished? Green Bay took down Chicago at Lambeau Field and had the game in the bag with just seconds to go at Soldier Field. And that was with Malik Willis in the game.

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Willis completed 81.8 percent of his passes for 121 yards and a touchdown, a 142.8 rating, while rushing for 44 more. On the road. In a playoff environment. Against one of the NFC’s top teams.

But it’s the Packers everyone is worried about?

Let’s not discredit the Bears. Finding a way to win is all that matters, and Caleb Williams looked like prime Aaron Rodgers in the final two minutes plus overtime. That counts. Nobody is pretending the Bears are a bad team or that they can’t create problems in the playoffs.

Prisco hits the nail on the head, though. It’s as though the first 58 minutes didn’t mean anything. For the scoreboard and the win column? Absolutely not. But when projecting ahead to playoff matchups? If Chicago plays that poorly for well over three quarters in January (perhaps in a rematch against the Packers with a healthy Love), it’s over.

It’s easy to play the what-if game, but at the time of the onside kick, Williams had completed just 12 of 24 passes for 151 yards against a depleted Green Bay defense. Chicago didn’t play championship football for almost the entire game. Of course, Williams showed off his star potential when it mattered most, but he nearly didn’t get that chance.

The Packers know one victory will send them into the playoffs (thanks for the assist, Aaron Rodgers), and they can be a dangerous team.

Mike McCarthy recently explained how the Packers playing in so many tough games and facing adversity will serve them well in the postseason. Over the past seven weeks, Green Bay has played the Philadelphia Eagles, Bears (twice), Detroit Lions, and Denver Broncos. They held two-score leads in four of them. Playing in electric atmospheres against elite teams will only help them when playoff football arrives.

The key now is getting as healthy as possible. They won’t get Micah Parsons back. Or Tucker Kraft. Or Devonte Wyatt. The list goes on. But the offense is among the league’s best with a healthy Love, and the defense kept the Bears out of the end zone until the final seconds. They will fight.

The loss at Soldier Field has the NFL world doubting the Packers, but even in defeat, they proved they can still become a dangerous team when January arrives.