{"id":637214,"date":"2025-12-29T08:00:12","date_gmt":"2025-12-29T08:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/637214\/"},"modified":"2025-12-29T08:00:12","modified_gmt":"2025-12-29T08:00:12","slug":"the-packers-have-a-60-percent-chance-of-a-bears-rematch-in-the-playoffs-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/637214\/","title":{"rendered":"The Packers have a 60 percent chance of a Bears rematch in the playoffs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/athletic\/nfl-playoff-picture\/2025\/bears\/#details\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">According to the New York Times\/The Athletic playoff simulator<\/a>, there\u2019s only a 60 percent chance of the Green Bay Packers and Chicago Bears getting a rubber match in Chicago for the wild card round, despite the Packers being locked into the NFC\u2019s seventh seed and the Bears currently holding onto the NFC\u2019s second seed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Here\u2019s how the second seed math works right now, according to The Athletic.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">If the Bears beat the Detroit Lions on Sunday, Chicago will lock in the second seed. If they lose, the Bears only have a 13 percent chance of being the second seed because of how likely it is that the Philadelphia Eagles will beat the Washington Commanders.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The only way for the Packers to play anyone but the Bears in the playoffs is if Chicago loses and Philadelphia wins in Week 18. But in the mind of the playoff simulator, that\u2019s not an unlikely outcome. In that scenario, a seventh-seeded Green Bay would go and visit the second-seeded Eagles in the wild-card round, just like last season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Basically, if you\u2019re a Packers fan rooting for a Bears rematch this postseason, you\u2019re either going to be a Lions fan on Sunday or a Bears AND Commanders fan for the late slate.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The Bears are just 1.5-point favorites at home against the Lions on DraftKings, while the Eagles are 7.5-point favorites at home over the Commanders. Interestingly, the Packers are 6.5-point underdogs against the Minnesota Vikings, a sign that books believe that Green Bay will sit their starters, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.acmepackingcompany.com\/green-bay-packers-news\/77287\/matt-lafleur-says-packers-havent-decided-whether-to-rest-starters-in-week-18\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">despite head coach Matt LaFleur saying the decision has yet to be made<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The Packers will play at noon CT, while both the Bears and Eagles will kick off at 4:25 pm CT on Sunday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"According to the New York Times\/The Athletic playoff simulator, there\u2019s only a 60 percent chance of the Green&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":637215,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2072],"tags":[7,41,345,83989,2514,2513,6,428],"class_list":{"0":"post-637214","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-green-bay-packers","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-green-bay","10":"tag-green-bay-packers","11":"tag-green-bay-packers-playoffs","12":"tag-greenbay","13":"tag-greenbaypackers","14":"tag-nfl","15":"tag-packers"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115801805709299457","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/637214","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=637214"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/637214\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/637215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=637214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=637214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=637214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}