Week 7 Preview: Saints and Sinners
The Chicago Bears return to Soldier Field with momentum in their paws and a fresh growl in their chests. After the bye week, this team has found balance, rhythm, and a new sense of purpose. The Des Plaines River inside all of us flows strong again.
But as we welcome the New Orleans Saints to town, the ghosts of old Bears teams whisper in the wind. In the past, this would be a letdown game, the kind that followed a big win with heartbreak and radio call-in hysteria. Not this year. Not under Ben Johnson. This team has evolved. This team has breath. This team has bite.
🏃♂️ THE GROUND AWAKENS
The Bears running game is alive again. After the bye, Ben Johnson and the coaching staff finally flipped the script and leaned into more outside zone runs. The result has been beautiful chaos. Swift is hitting edges with renewed confidence. Roschon Johnson took a rumble through contact like a yogi possessed. And when Luther Burden III gets involved on motion plays, it feels like watching a lightning bolt meditate. Every touch is electric.
This is what balance looks like. The breath of a run, the exhale of a deep pass, all in perfect flow.
🧘♀️ THE ANGER WITHIN
But peace is not the absence of rage. It is the mastery of it. Last week’s penalty calls against the Bears were absurd. Phantom roughing the passer, mysterious offensive line interference, cosmic-level nonsense. The type of calls that make a bear consider throwing the TV into the river. Yet here we are, calm and collected, because we know the truth: the league cannot flag inner peace. The flags were a lesson in restraint, and we are stronger for it.
🧠 A DEFENSIVE REBIRTH
Former Saints head coach Dennis Allen now leads the Bears defense, and you can feel his fingerprints on every snap. The blitz packages are smarter, the pursuit angles cleaner, and the tackling downright spiritual. Allen may have been run out of New Orleans, but here in Chicago he is a defensive monk, crafting order from chaos.
🧩 THE QUARTERBACK CONNECTION
Across the line stands Spencer Rattler, the Saints quarterback and former college teammate of Caleb Williams at Oklahoma. Once upon a time, Rattler was benched in favor of Caleb. That storyline will be milked all week by the media. But this is not college anymore. Caleb has leveled up. He has become the calm commander of this offense, the eye of the Chicago storm. And if the Bears tear this game open, Rattler could soon be eyeing another spot on the sideline benches of Soldier Field.
🏟️ SOLDIER FIELD ENERGY
This is no longer the team that folds after a big win. The fans are ready, the air is crisp, and the energy is different. The Bears are not chasing validation anymore. They are defending their peace and their turf. The Saints are walking into a cauldron of redemption. And the crowd? A sea of humanity, half in mindful meditation, half frothing at the mouth.
🧘♂️ PENALTY KARMA CLEANSING
Before every game, Bears fans must prepare not just their hearts, but their souls. Especially after last week’s absolute joke of officiating, where yellow flags rained from the sky like divine punishment for existing.
Now close your eyes. Picture a referee standing in front of you. He is holding a flag. You are holding an Old Style. Now, slowly exhale and whisper:
“That flag is an illusion. It has no power here.
Even if my left tackle moves early, I remain still inside.
I let go of the calls that held us back.”
Spiritual outcome: Your heart rate returns to normal. Your TV remote remains intact. Your neighbors no longer fear you. You are ready for kickoff.
🕯️ FINAL SCORE
Bears 34, Saints 16. Caleb outshines Rattler. The running game flows like the Des Plaines after a spring rain. Dennis Allen avenges his New Orleans past. And Soldier Field, once again, becomes the center of the football universe. The river runs clean, the fans exhale, and the Bears march on.
