A Rivalry Renewed

As a lifelong Bears fan who has been on the wrong side of this divisional rivalry for most of my life, I have never had a problem admitting that the Packers were the better team. They had better coaches than the Bears and, for the last three to four decades, two of the best quarterbacks to ever play the game. I’ve said countless times that I believe Aaron Rodgers is the greatest pure passer of all time, and that Brett Favre was the last true gunslinger of a dying NFL era. I’ve even argued that if the Packers had a better coach than Mike McCarthy, Aaron Rodgers could have won three Super Bowls.

But times are changing.

Caleb Williams is, without a doubt in my mind, the real deal. Kurt Warner recently said in an interview that to be a good quarterback in the NFL, you have to be either incredibly efficient or incredibly explosive—but great quarterbacks are both. This season, Caleb was one of the most explosive quarterbacks in the NFL while learning one of the most complex offenses in the league.