The Green Bay Packers are not currently looking ahead to their Week 18 matchup against Caleb Williams and the Chicago Bears.
Instead, they are focused on preparing for their Week 17 game against the Minnesota Vikings, a matchup that has the potential to affect their seeding in the upcoming NFL Playoffs.
At 11-4, Green Bay has already clinched a postseason berth. So too have the 13-2 Vikings, who can still win the NFC North should they win out.
But the Bears, at 4-12 following their dismal and embarrassing 6-3 loss to the Seattle Seahawks on Thursday Night Football, have already been eliminated. Despite Williams having the best statistical season ever by a rookie quarterback in Chicago, they have lost 10 games in a row and are, once again, the laughing stock of the division.
And the Packers could make it even worse.
1. The Green Bay Packers Could Get Chicago Bears Quarterback Caleb Williams to Break the NFL Single Season Sack Record
After being sacked seven times by Seahawks defenders on Thursday night, Williams’ NFL-leading total grew to 67 this season. The league record for a quarterback getting sacked in a single season is 76.
Therefore, if the Packers were to sack Williams 10 times in Week 18, he would break the record in his very first season as the Bears starting quarterback.
Of course, this is a tall task. However, it is not unheard of. The NFL record for team sacks in a game is 14.0, which was set by the Philadelphia Eagles in 1952. However, the Seahawks recorded 11.0 sacks in a game as recently as last season.
The Packers record for team sacks in a game is 9.0, which they ironically set against the Bears back in 2005.
2. Green Bay Packers Quarterback Jordan Love Could Throw 4 Touchdown Passes
When the Packers traded Aaron Rodgers to the New York Jets, Bears fans were convinced that their decades of turmoil facing Hall of Fame quarterbacks in Green Bay were over. They believed that Jordan Love would not be able to continue his team’s run of utter dominance against Chicago.
But he has.
In just three games played against the Bears, Love already has more touchdown passes (six) than either Rodgers or Brett Favre had in their first three starts against Chicago.
If Love were to throw four touchdown passes in Week 18, it would give him 10, which would be as many as Rodgers and Favre threw combined in their first four starts against the Bears.
How much Love will play in the final game of the season is yet to be determined, and the Packers are a run-first offense now anyway. But it would be pretty humiliating for Chicago if the Green Bay quarterback they thought would finally struggle against them ended up with twice as many touchdown passes as his Hall of Fame predecessors against them (through four games).
3. The Green Bay Packers Could Remain Undefeated Against the Chicago Bears Under Matt LaFleur
For all of the trash talk that Bears fans send the Packers’ way, one would think that Chicago had some sort of recent success against Green Bay.
But they haven’t.
Matt LaFleur became the head coach of the Packers in 2019 and has not lost a single game to the Bears during his tenure. The last time Chicago beat Green Bay was in December of 2018.
Since then, Green Bay has gone 11-0 against the Bears and could make it six consecutive seasons of sweeping the rivalry with a win in Week 18.
It is truly wild to realize that Chicago has not been able to beat Green Bay even once in this current decade.