Bears vs Vikings, or let's not start sucking each other's ***** yet

To any Bears fans getting overly excited about this Sunday's game, I'd like to point out a few things.

Any defensive powerhouse relies heavily on the running game as their first line of defense, because if you leave any defensive unit on the field too long, they'll wear down, make mistakes, and give up points.  It remains extremely difficult to run on the Vikings, who are ranked 1st in rushing defense.  Really, their glaring weakness recently has been the ridiculous amount of passing yards the team has given up, and even when they give up 400 yards passing and keep coughing the ball up, the Vikings still don't give up that many points, and have played a lot of close games.  So realistically, the Bears need to get something out of the passing game to keep the whole game-plan from unraveling, and to keep this from coming down to a lucky break.

And therein lies the problem.  Rex Grossman has 10 turnovers in the last month, including seven interceptions.  And it's not enough for Grossman to just suck, he has to do it in style.  After the Bears defense bailed him out by coming up with a turnover in the closing minutes of his last game against the Vikings, Sexy Rexy started off on such a ridiculous tirade of trashtalk that even he had to admit he's an idiot for patting himself on the back so hard over that one.  And Darren Sharper has promised that nobody on the Vikings defense has forgotten what a dick Grossman is, and they're all salivating waiting for a chance to embarrass him.  The first mistake he makes, they'll be in his head, and the snowy grass of Soilder Field (sic) could easily turn to quicksand under his feet.

The Vikings are coming off of a win that was closer than it should have been, fired up about Grossman, and the Bears are coming off a possible momentum-killing loss.  Their lead in the NFC and dominance in the division may make them start to look ahead to the play-offs and lose their drive after 12 weeks of regular season football, and the Patriots may have them wondering if they're really cut out to win anything better than the NFC North with Sexy Rexy running the show.  The 10-point spread just shows the overconfidence of the betting public, and I can't help but wonder how much of that has trickled into the Bears heads as well.

All I'm saying is, it's just possible somebody in Oldtown may be flipping over his reversible Vikings-Bears jersey this Sunday afternoon...