{"id":661775,"date":"2026-01-07T18:31:13","date_gmt":"2026-01-07T18:31:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/661775\/"},"modified":"2026-01-07T18:31:13","modified_gmt":"2026-01-07T18:31:13","slug":"chicago-bears-playoffs-why-this-season-feels-different","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/661775\/","title":{"rendered":"Chicago Bears playoffs \u2014 Why this season feels different"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the latest episode of the <a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/the-bearstalk-podcast\/id1639453795\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">BearsTalk Podcast<\/a>, I dive into the 2025 Chicago Bears season and reflect on what\u2019s been an incredible ride before the Bears take the field Saturday night against the Green Bay Packers in the wild-card round.<\/p>\n<p>From Ben Johnson\u2019s incredible impact to Caleb Williams\u2019 development in Year 2, we cover it all.<\/p>\n<p>Remember to subscribe to the BearsTalk Podcast on your favorite podcast provider. Rate and review, too! We hope you enjoy this episode.<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to the BearsTalk Podcast on <a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/the-bearstalk-podcast\/id1639453795\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Apple<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/show\/0EzkBoyoipNsCMD7V7rKyE\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Spotify<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.spreaker.com\/podcast\/the-bearstalk-podcast--5636996\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Spreaker<\/a>, or wherever you get your podcasts from.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In the latest episode of the BearsTalk Podcast, I dive into the 2025 Chicago Bears season and reflect&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":661776,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2070],"tags":[374,1035,1036,692,391,2493,7,6,9431],"class_list":["post-661775","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-chicago-bears","tag-bears","tag-ben-johnson","tag-caleb-williams","tag-chicago","tag-chicago-bears","tag-chicagobears","tag-football","tag-nfl","tag-podcast"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115855247484627328","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661775","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=661775"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661775\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/661776"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=661775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=661775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=661775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}