A rooting guide for Chicago Bears fans

Every game. One Bears.

Choose a season, week, and game to see what result we believe best helps Da Bears and why.

Opening week

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16 matchups

Medium impactWeek 1 NFC pressure

BearSight recommends

Root for the New England Patriots.

Seattle starts 0–1, keeping an early win away from another NFC team.

NENE PatriotsAFC East0–0SEASEA SeahawksNFC West0–0

Decisive factorWeek 1 NFC pressure

Recommended outcome is the default. Select a team to compare outcomes.

How BearSight decided

Week 1 uses the approved deterministic opening-week rule. Seattle starts 0–1, keeping an early win away from another NFC team. No simulation is used to manufacture a separator before standings exist.

See the five priority tiers

2026 Week 1 snapshot · all teams enter 0–0 · Rules v1.9

Standings context

Every team begins 0–0.

NFC standings

ARI Cardinals0–0Tied by recordNFC West

ATL Falcons0–0Tied by recordNFC South

CAR Panthers0–0Tied by recordNFC South

CHI Bears0–0Tied by recordNFC North

DAL Cowboys0–0Tied by recordNFC East

DET Lions0–0Tied by recordNFC North

GB Packers0–0Tied by recordNFC North

LA Rams0–0Tied by recordNFC West

MIN Vikings0–0Tied by recordNFC North

NO Saints0–0Tied by recordNFC South

NYG Giants0–0Tied by recordNFC East

PHI Eagles0–0Tied by recordNFC East

SEA Seahawks0–0Tied by recordNFC West

SF 49ers0–0Tied by recordNFC West

TB Buccaneers0–0Tied by recordNFC South

WAS Commanders0–0Tied by recordNFC East

All NFC teams are tied by record before Week 1. Display order is not a tiebreak or projected seed.

AFC standings

BAL Ravens0–0Tied by recordAFC North

BUF Bills0–0Tied by recordAFC East

CIN Bengals0–0Tied by recordAFC North

CLE Browns0–0Tied by recordAFC North

DEN Broncos0–0Tied by recordAFC West

HOU Texans0–0Tied by recordAFC South

IND Colts0–0Tied by recordAFC South

JAX Jaguars0–0Tied by recordAFC South

KC Chiefs0–0Tied by recordAFC West

LAC Chargers0–0Tied by recordAFC West

LV Raiders0–0Tied by recordAFC West

MIA Dolphins0–0Tied by recordAFC East

NE Patriots0–0Tied by recordAFC East

NYJ Jets0–0Tied by recordAFC East

PIT Steelers0–0Tied by recordAFC North

TEN Titans0–0Tied by recordAFC South

All AFC teams are tied by record before Week 1. AFC results matter only through the approved opening-week conference rule.

Division-by-division

Every conference race.

NFC North

CHI Bears0–0T–1

DET Lions0–0T–1

GB Packers0–0T–1

MIN Vikings0–0T–1

NFC East

DAL Cowboys0–0T–1

NYG Giants0–0T–1

PHI Eagles0–0T–1

WAS Commanders0–0T–1

NFC South

ATL Falcons0–0T–1

CAR Panthers0–0T–1

NO Saints0–0T–1

TB Buccaneers0–0T–1

NFC West

ARI Cardinals0–0T–1

LA Rams0–0T–1

SEA Seahawks0–0T–1

SF 49ers0–0T–1

AFC North

BAL Ravens0–0T–1

CIN Bengals0–0T–1

CLE Browns0–0T–1

PIT Steelers0–0T–1

AFC East

BUF Bills0–0T–1

MIA Dolphins0–0T–1

NE Patriots0–0T–1

NYJ Jets0–0T–1

AFC South

HOU Texans0–0T–1

IND Colts0–0T–1

JAX Jaguars0–0T–1

TEN Titans0–0T–1

AFC West

DEN Broncos0–0T–1

KC Chiefs0–0T–1

LAC Chargers0–0T–1

LV Raiders0–0T–1

Built for honest answers

Toss Up can mean two different things.

Sometimes neither result meaningfully helps The Bears. Sometimes the evidence is uncertain or competing. The top-line instruction is the same; the reason remains visible.

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Priority tiers

Playoff qualification and Wild Card position
Division title
Seed and home field
Direct tiebreak posture
Supported strength effects

A lower tier cannot outweigh a meaningful difference at a higher tier. Wild Card analysis applies whenever another NFC North team leads the division.

What “Toss Up” means

Neutral: no supported tier differs. Uncertain: missing, stale, conflicting, or same-tier competing evidence prevents a defensible direction.

Impact labels

High, Medium, and Low describe modeled impact on The Bears—not the probability that a recommendation is correct. These labels remain provisional.

Data and freshness

The 2025 schedule and final scores and the complete 2026 regular-season schedule are imported from nflverse. Week 1 uses the approved deterministic opening-week contract. Weeks 2–18 remain Pending until the preceding results establish their official entry snapshots.

Limits of this prototype

Draft analysis is out of scope. Historical recommendations use the current deterministic week-entry model and remain subject to independent football-logic review before a production-readiness claim.