Bears ‘CLEARLY’ will upset Eagles, J-Lo’s stock up, Lamar Jackson’s stock down after loss | FTF

The Chicago Bears will face off with the Philadelphia Eagles today, and Danny Parkins, Greg Jennings, and WIllie Colon whether or not it’s more likely that the Bears upset the Eagles or that the Eagles blow out the Bears. Plus, Parkins lists who’s stock is up and who’s stock is down this week, including Lamar Jackson and Jordan Love.

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We’re just over 3 hours until kickoff of Bears and Eagles in Philadelphia. The Bears, one of the surprise teams in the NFL, the Eagles, the champs, can’t go 3 days without some form of dysfunction, but they also mostly win even though they’re coming off of a loss. All right, Greg, I’m gonna start with you here. Everyone knows where my heart lies, my allegiance is that I just picked the Bears plus the 7, so I’ll get to kind of some rationale here in a second. But what do you think is more likely? Because this is a 7 point spread in this game, an Eagles blowout or a Bears upset? Well, I, I wanna say a blowout because I feel like they’re due offensively to start clicking. However, I’m gonna go with what I’ve been seeing on tape and I’m gonna say uh a Bears upset is likely because this team, when you listen to their quarterback and Jalen Hurts talking about settling into an identity and having the awareness to know that yes, he’s mentioned earlier in the season, where we can win. Uh, a variety of ways, right? I think sometimes when you get to this point in the season, you have to understand, OK, this is, this is who we are and we just haven’t seen who they are in terms of them offensively. Now defensively, they figured out some, some things. Obviously, Phillips being added to that defense has changed the landscape of who they are upfront, but offensively, they’ve still Run into the same hurdles and haven’t figured out how they’re going to approach them from week to week. And so when you look at this Bears team, they have a chance to go in here to, to Philly and really rattle them even more and make them question who they are even more later in the season, which is what we’ve been doing as talking heads all season long because of what we’ve been seeing specifically in their passing game. Yeah, I’m, I’m gonna go Eagles blowout. I, I think the loss they suffered in Dallas was significant because they were up 21 points, and I thought the second half, you saw this Dallas team really kinda act like a boa constrictor and really kinda sucked the life out of this Eagles offense, and they didn’t know how to respond. And when you talk about a level of physicality you need to play this time of year, it starts in the line of scrim. Right? And when you’re not able to run the ball like we’re used to seeing the Eagles run the ball, you gotta say, hey man, what else can we do? And I think for the Eagles right now, instead of trying to run between the tackles, you gotta start attacking the perimeter. You love to see tosses and screens and things where you can open the offense up and continue to feed AJ Brown cause he’s a big target. I like the Eagles, man. I think they just have to settle and say. Remain consistent through all four quarters. I thought coming out of halftime against the Cowboys, they kind of let off the throttle, and the Cowboys were ready for the fight and they couldn’t respond to it. Listen, I think the Eagles are dangerous coming off a loss, but clearly I think it’s a Bears upset. I picked it in the last segment, but I think the Eagles are gonna be able to run the ball. The Bears run is, is, Bears run D is, is bad. But Jalen Johnson is back for this game. He’s their best corner. Kyler Gordon is back. He’s the Bears’ 2nd best corner. Jalen’s been out all year, Kyler Gordon’s only played in 2 games. That is going to help the Bears’ pass defense significantly. And if you could quantify vibes, the, the, the, the the Bears, I, I’m sure you both have been on teams like this, where you just believe, whether it’s like you looked at Aaron and you were like, oh yeah, that guy’s on my side, I believe, or you looked at Ben and it was like, all right, that guy’s on my side, I believe. The Bears. Sometimes weird things happen and it’s inexplicable. Like, I honestly, I’m not because I don’t think the Bears are great. I don’t think they’re a you don’t think they’re great. I don’t think they’re great, but I think that they’re good and they truly believe. And so what this opportunity is for the Bears, it’s an opportunity to validate it. And if they lose, they’ll get another one because they play the Packers twice and they play the. So it’s not their only chance at validation, but national TV game, everyone’s questioning how real it is. You’re a huge underdog. There’s something to when you’re having that special season, Greg, where I actually do believe that they’re gonna just seize this opportunity on a short week in front of 30 million people or whatever that’ll be watching the game, and they’ll shock the world. Yeah, I, I’m with you there. Like when you’re a young team with a young coach and specifically a young quarterback and you look at that offensive side and those skilled guys being a little younger, like you don’t know what you don’t know. And so I’m not going to fear what I really don’t know to fear, and that’s playing great football and needing to execute at a high level and Crunch time at the end of the season. Well, in my mind, we’ve been doing that all year. These wins that we’re talking about of the Bears and this, this position of how, how are they, do they, are they really an elite team? Are they a good team? Are they a great team? They believe that they are elite. Like you can’t tell anyone in that organization, anyone in that building that they can’t go into Philly and, and win this game. And so I say that because that is scary when you are playing the way that Philly is playing and you have a team that’s coming in that just, they really don’t believe that they’re not a good team. They believe that we are 8 and 3, we’re leading our division, we deserve to be here and we’re about to prove it. Day on the national stage and I, I, Caleb Williams has a, has an opportunity to really just continue to, to solidify kind of this story of, you know what, he finds a way to come, come away with wins because we can call it whatever we want to, you know, luck, uh, happenstance, clutch when he gets the ball and it’s late in the game. He comes through for this team. They find a way to come through, Willie. We’re gonna be asking some questions which team is the better quarterback? Which team is the better coach? We’re gonna be asking those types of questions after the Bears pull off an upset. What perfect time to check your portfolio than a Black Friday. Let’s do a little edition of Stock up stock down. Unfortunately we’re gonna begin in the red. Lamar Jackson, stock is down as a passer. Is he hurt? Do teams not fear him running the ball? What’s the reason? He had gone 34 consecutive games with at least one passing touchdown. He now has 0 passing touchdowns in 3 consecutive games. I listen, I don’t believe that that where some of his all-time passer ratings is like, oh, is Lamar Jackson a better passer than Dan Marino and Tom Brady? Like, I, I sometimes think numbers can lie a little bit, but he is a good passer and the guy. I watched last night, not a doctor, just a person with eyes who watches 15 hours of live football every week. That doesn’t look like Lamar Jackson, so his stock is down as a passer and a runner. Yeah, I definitely say down just so just his presence overall. You talk about sitting in the pocket, be able to deliver the football. He looks like he’s regressed because he’s back, he’s behind in his timing. He looks indecisive, and right now we don’t know what he does well at the position, right, because he’s not able to run it and he’s not on time with the football. So I’m gonna say, uh, stock down. You selling, Greg? Um, I, I am selling for this year. I, I really am. Look, I believe in Lamar Jackson. I know he’s a good passer. It, it’s just not clicking that they’re off schedule too much and he’s holding, he’s choosing to hold the ball, to extend plays, to push the ball down the field. I don’t love what I’m seeing. I like what their defense is turning into, but offensively they’re regressing. Well, here’s one that’s volatile like Bitcoin. Jordan Love, your stock is up. You just can’t check this portfolio every single day. You’re just hoping for long-term growth. Like he, he, he is not, he, he, he, he, he is a streaky player, but he’s very talented as a passer. These are just his passing. 234 passing yards yesterday, his most since week nine, most in a win since week eight, but it. 234 passing yards on 18 completions. Like it’s, it’s not, he, he is a big play hunter. It’s 4th and 2. I’ll throw it 30 yards down the field and it just, it worked yesterday. 4th down to ice the game, 2 touchdowns on 4th down conversions, Greg, that version of Jordan Love is a bad, bad man. I’m, I’m so elated to hear you say that, Danny, cause I, I, I sometimes I, I, yeah, I appreciate that cause sometimes I don’t believe that you call it how you see it, but this, his stock is definitely up. He definitely performed great. Um, obviously he still has to do that for the remainder of the season for them to make a deep run, but I believe in Jordan Love. I like what, what he’s been doing. Yeah, he won me over, especially on our 4th. 3 where he delivered the ball to Wicks, man, that was a clutch move. I think right now what you’re seeing more and more faithful for is having him to deliver in crucial situations. So yeah, stock up for me. And again, I don’t know that he can do it consistently throughout the playoffs, but yesterday, that was undeniably impressive. Last one, stock down. Lions playoff chances, these are their Super Bowl odds over the course of the year. They’re right now 25 to 1 to win the Super Bowl. It’s basically a coin flip minus 125 that the Lions will even make the playoffs. The NFC. Is just in a situation where one or two really good teams, right now it would be the Cowboys and Lions, are going to miss the playoffs, and last year it was the Lions’ defense with all of those guys on IR. Now all of a sudden. LaPorta’s out. Aman Ras Saint Brown gets hurt in the game yesterday. Their starting center is out. Their number 2 tight end was out. And then we’re talking about Frank Rag now coming out of retirement. Like I just, I think there might be too many injuries on the offensive side of the ball, Willie, for my Super Bowl pick in the NFC to even make the playoffs. Yeah, my, my stock isn’t up or down. I’m gonna say it is, it’s flat right now. Still believe they have enough on the offensive side uh the ball to rebound and be better. I think the injuries was really killing them, and I don’t blame Dan Campbell for having blind faith in his team and, and, and especially in crucial situations. He believes in what this team can do, especially on 4th down. If, if, if they’re able to execute better, uh, yesterday, this is a whole different outcome and a whole different storyline for this team. So I’m gonna say flat stock for me. Stock definitely down. I’m, I’m with Danny and it’s unfortunate because we all know to your point, Danny, this is a really good team. It’s just unfortunate that they’re suffering the injuries that they’re suffering after the year that we saw last year, but stock down, it’s, it’s jam packed in the NFC right now at the top, and they’re looking like the team that’s going to be out. Yeah, I can’t, honestly, like, it’s not as hard to believe as the Chiefs, but like, they have so much talent on that team that the idea of them missing the playoffs, like we’re not gonna talk about it quite as much, but it’s a huge fall from grace for them, uh, for a team with. Super Bowl aspirations coming into the season. Yeah, I, I, I think the biggest glaring thing about happened yesterday was about that D-line and not be able to get after Jordan Love at home. That was shocking for me. Yeah, the Packers definitely won that battle in terms of being able to, uh, disrupt golf more than the other side of the ball.