With their first postseason victory since 2010, the Bears (12-6) advanced to next weekend’s Divisional Round and will host the Eagles if they beat the 49ers late Sunday afternoon or the Rams if Philadelphia loses.<\/p>\n
On Saturday night, the Bears won the coin toss, opted to receive and took a 3-0 lead on Cairo Santos’ 27-yard field goal. But the Packers responded by scoring touchdowns on their first three possessions\u2014all on Love passes\u2014to take a seemingly commanding 21-3 halftime lead.<\/p>\n
In the locker room at halftime, Johnson mentioned the Patriots’ Super Bowl LI victory over the Falcons in which New England rallied from a 28-3 third-quarter lead to win 34-28 in overtime. The coach had shown tape of that game to Bears players during training camp.<\/p>\n
“That was my message to the group,” Johnson said, “just reminding them that this has been done before and rather than saying, ‘Woe is me’ and ‘Oh [shoot], we’re in a hole,’ it’s more, ‘This is a great opportunity for us to turn this around into a game we’ll never forget,’ and that’s what they did.”<\/p>\n
“He said when we do this, it’s going to be the biggest [comeback] in Bears [postseason] history, and we got it done,” Loveland said. “We knew it wasn’t going well, but we never skipped a beat, never lost faith in all the guys, and I’m super proud with how we bounced back.”<\/p>\n
The Bears defense opened the second half by forcing the Packers to punt on their first four possessions, including three three-and-outs. The offense responded with two Santos field goals and a D’Andre Swift touchdown to close the gap to 21-16.<\/p>\n
After Green Bay extended its lead to 27-16 on Love’s 23-yard TD pass to Matthew Golden with 6:36 to play, the Bears scored the game’s final 15 points. Williams threw an 8-yard TD pass to Olamide Zaccheaus and then hit Loveland with a two-point conversion pass to close the gap to 27-24 with 4:18 remaining.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With their first postseason victory since 2010, the Bears (12-6) advanced to next weekend’s Divisional Round and will…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":400993,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[178863,125555,99],"class_list":["post-400992","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-2025-playoffs-content","tag-article-game-recap","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400992","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=400992"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400992\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/400993"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=400992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=400992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=400992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}