{"id":173815,"date":"2025-07-01T20:18:11","date_gmt":"2025-07-01T20:18:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/173815\/"},"modified":"2025-07-01T20:18:11","modified_gmt":"2025-07-01T20:18:11","slug":"the-chicago-bears-will-be-better-but-will-that-be-good-enough-in-the-nfc-north","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/173815\/","title":{"rendered":"The Chicago Bears will be better, but will that be good enough in the NFC North?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to SB Nation Reacts, a survey of fans across the NFL. Throughout the year we ask questions of the most plugged-in Chicago Bears fans and fans across the country. Sign up here to participate in the weekly emailed surveys.<\/p>\n<p>Chicago Bears fans are in a good place, as evidenced by our Reacts\u2019 results from a couple of weeks ago, but being confident that the franchise will improve over last season\u2019s five wins still begs the question: just how much better will they be?<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>The NFC North was the best division in the NFL last year, so Chicago could have a big jump in wins, yet still fall short of making the playoffs. The Seahawks won ten games last year and missed the playoffs.<\/p>\n<p>The Green Bay Packers were a sixth seed in 2024 with 11 wins as the third-place finisher in the division. The Detroit Lions took the North with a 15-2 record, with the Minnesota Vikings right behind them at 14-3.<\/p>\n<p>The NFC could be strong again as teams battle for the wild-card spots, and the North division is likely to be the toughest in football once more, so where do you see Chicago ending up?<\/p>\n<p>Vote in our Reacts survey, and we\u2019ll share your results after the holiday.<\/p>\n<p>More from windycitygridiron.com:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Welcome to SB Nation Reacts, a survey of fans across the NFL. Throughout the year we ask questions&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":173816,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2070],"tags":[374,692,391,2493,113,7,259,1592,6,38328,238,8646],"class_list":{"0":"post-173815","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-chicago-bears","8":"tag-bears","9":"tag-chicago","10":"tag-chicago-bears","11":"tag-chicagobears","12":"tag-detroit-lions","13":"tag-football","14":"tag-minnesota-vikings","15":"tag-nfc-north","16":"tag-nfl","17":"tag-north-division","18":"tag-seahawks","19":"tag-the-green-bay-packers"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114779830778172295","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173815","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=173815"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173815\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/173816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=173815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}