Chicago Bears vs. the 49ers 12/28, 5:20 - Pre-game Thread

I will be there and I know there will be a lot of bears fans there. I know our crew can drown them out. I just hope our defense can shut them up

Originally posted by LenCat:
I will be there and I know there will be a lot of bears fans there. I know our crew can drown them out. I just hope our defense can shut them up

How do you know a lot of bears fans will be there?

Sucks that this game will be played on a short week after traveling to Indianapolis. Hopefully Kittle and Bethune can get healthy enough to play.

Kind of annoying scheduling quirk that the Bears played on Saturday and we played on Monday. Basically 2 days of rest difference.

Caleb gonna drop 300 yards and 4 tds then go and paint his nails all on our turf.

Originally posted by niner4life21:

Originally posted by LenCat:
I will be there and I know there will be a lot of bears fans there. I know our crew can drown them out. I just hope our defense can shut them up

How do you know a lot of bears fans will be there?

So many transplants in the BA. Holiday week. Escape the cold.

Originally posted by ninerfan4life:

The 49ers are 3-point favorites over the Bears.

And it isn't crazy to think that their defense will be in much better position to defend Caleb Williams than it was vs Philip Rivers

— David Lombardi (@LombardiHimself) December 23, 2025

Even homer Lombardi was calling out the Niners defense in the Indy game

Originally posted by niner4life21:

Originally posted by LenCat:
I will be there and I know there will be a lot of bears fans there. I know our crew can drown them out. I just hope our defense can shut them up

How do you know a lot of bears fans will be there?

I know Packers fans travel really well, but I don't think Bears fans do as much.

Unless they can get things figured out on defense, every game from here on out is going to be a potential loss. They made a 44-year-old QB who hadn't played in five years look like a legit NFL starter. What did they have, like one sack all night and a few pressures. I'm mean it's just embarrassing how bad their pass rush is these days. Bil Walsh once said you can scheme offense, but you need to have good players on defense and right now, too many of our good players aren't on the field. If Rivers could look like a Pro Bowl player, what the heck is Stafford going to do to us if we meet up again.

The 49er defense can't handle intelligent QBs who know where to go with the ball b/c we currently have an imperfect defense and there is always a gdamn hole out there...

However...when we face a QB who can't pick apart our defense pre snap we have a chance

Saleh absolutely knows how to scheme to take away the primary read on a play.

The Colt gameplan was obviously stop the run and bottle up Warren...the defense did that successfully
The problem is we were missing a starting CB and unable to defend the WRs...and Rivers knew how to find those openings

We should have Green back against CHI and Caleb Williams is not anywhere close to Rivers at reading the field

Must win. Cant lose at Levi's is the mission. Players and fans vs the visitors

Originally posted by 49ers81:
Unless they can get things figured out on defense, every game from here on out is going to be a potential loss. They made a 44-year-old QB who hadn't played in five years look like a legit NFL starter. What did they have, like one sack all night and a few pressures. I'm mean it's just embarrassing how bad their pass rush is these days. Bil Walsh once said you can scheme offense, but you need to have good players on defense and right now, too many of our good players aren't on the field. If Rivers could look like a Pro Bowl player, what the heck is Stafford going to do to us if we meet up again.

You scared?

We don't do fear here. We smell blood we kill!!!

Originally posted by 49ers81:
Unless they can get things figured out on defense, every game from here on out is going to be a potential loss. They made a 44-year-old QB who hadn't played in five years look like a legit NFL starter. What did they have, like one sack all night and a few pressures. I'm mean it's just embarrassing how bad their pass rush is these days. Bil Walsh once said you can scheme offense, but you need to have good players on defense and right now, too many of our good players aren't on the field. If Rivers could look like a Pro Bowl player, what the heck is Stafford going to do to us if we meet up again.

Need to keep in mind they played to stop JT. And they did, they wanted to make rivers beat them. To his credit he did a pretty job.