The Chicago Bears and Minnesota Vikings meet up on Monday Night Football, and the expectations are high for both franchises. The Bears are coming off a very disappointing 5-12 campaign, but that prompted the franchise to hire the top head coaching candidate on the market to right the ship in Ben Johnson. He was hired to lead the Bears to the playoffs and to get the most out of the first overall pick of the 2024 NFL Draft, Caleb Williams.<\/p>\n
The vibes have been high all offseason after some key personnel changes and a productive and promising training camp and preseason. The Johnson-Williams pairing has the highest ceiling if everything goes to plan.<\/p>\n
The Vikes are coming off a 14-3 year, but they\u2019re trying to stay among the NFC\u2019s elite with a new quarterback. After missing all of last season with a knee injury, 2024 tenth overall draft pick J.J. McCarthy is ready to guide Kevin O\u2019Connell\u2019s offense.<\/p>\n
Monday night may be week one, but it\u2019s a divisional matchup, and the emotions will be sky high.<\/p>\n
We\u2019ll gather all our Bears vs Vikings stuff, both pre- and post-game, in this story stream below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Chicago Bears and Minnesota Vikings meet up on Monday Night Football, and the expectations are high for…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":344383,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2073],"tags":[7766,7769,741,18084,7768,15508,7767,7,710,233,259,2529,6,234],"class_list":{"0":"post-344382","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-minnesota-vikings","8":"tag-chicago-bears-game-information","9":"tag-chicago-bears-injuries","10":"tag-chicago-bears-news","11":"tag-chicago-bears-odds","12":"tag-chicago-bears-podcasts-videos","13":"tag-chicago-bears-schedule","14":"tag-chicago-bears-scores-results","15":"tag-football","16":"tag-game-day-threads","17":"tag-minnesota","18":"tag-minnesota-vikings","19":"tag-minnesotavikings","20":"tag-nfl","21":"tag-vikings"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115153247187216129","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344382","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=344382"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344382\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/344383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=344382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=344382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=344382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}