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The Chicago Bears will see their season come to a close this weekend regardless of the result of Sunday’s game against the Green Bay Packers, but that doesn’t mean the game is meaningless for the fans and for the team. As quarterback Justin Fields points out, a win over Green Bay on Sunday would keep the Packers out of the playoffs. That, along with ending the season on a high note, is reason for the Bears to feel motivation heading into this game.

“I think it would mean a lot to the team, the fans, the city,” Fields said, via Patrick Finley of the Chicago Sun-Times. “I think it’d be great. We know Green Bay’s playing for a lot, what’s at stake. They’re playing for a playoff spot right now. So I just think that with all of that on the table it would be a great feeling to end the season with a win in Lambeau up there.” For Fields, there is also a chance that this could be his last game with the Bears as the team currently holds the top pick in the 2024 NFL Draft and could potentially use it on a quarterback like Drake Maye or Caleb Williams.

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Love, in his first year as the Packers starter, turned the question marks that surrounded his replacing future Hall of Famer Aaron Rodgers into an exclamation point and has the Packers on the doorstep of the postseason. All the Packers have to do is beat the Chicago Bears, at home, Sunday to make the playoffs. That’s where LaFleur comes into the equation. The fifth-year head coach deserves a lot of credit for Love’s progress and also for the progress of the young group of wide receivers and tight ends that have sparked this offense.

Where the question arises around the head coach is winning a big game, you’re supposed to win, at home.

The past three years loyal Packers fans, with cheese on their heads and green and gold blood pumping through their veins, have watched the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, the San Francisco 49ers and the Detroit Lions come into Lambeau Field as underdogs and beat LaFleur’s Packers. Tampa Bay, a notoriously bad cold-weather team, did it in the 2020 NFC Championship Game denying the Packers their sixth trip to a Super Bowl. San Francisco did it in the 2021 second round when the rested top seed Packers had a bye. And Detroit did it last year in the regular-season final when a win would have sent the Packers to the playoffs.

Losing at home, especially in the postseason, never happened to the Packers. Visiting teams coming to Lambeau Field had as good of a chance as winning as Aaron Rodgers does of being a guest on Jimmy Kimmel.

Mike Holmgren, like Vince Lombardi before him, never lost in the postseason at Lambeau, going 5-0 in five playoff games. It wasn’t until Atlanta finally got revenge on a guy named Sherman (Mike) in 2002 that things began to change.

Sherman would lose a second home playoff game to Minnesota in 2004; and Mike McCarthy lost to the New York Giants in 2007 and 2011 and to San Francisco in 2013 all at Lambeau.

Now comes LaFleur. He won his first two home playoff games against Seattle and the Los Angeles Rams in 2019 and 2020 before the Tampa Bay disaster began the downward trend.

It’s even carried over into the regular season. After winning 15 consecutive home games in a span between 2020-2022, including a perfect 8-0 in 2021, the Packers lost three times at Lambeau a year ago and are just 4-3 this year as the Bears come to town, Sunday. Two of those three losses this season were in the division to the Vikings and Lions. The Packers haven’t gone winless at home in the division since 2015. That’s also the last time the Bears won at Lambeau. LaFleur has never lost to Chicago. He’s 9-0, including a win in this year’s season opener. Making it a perfect 10 to match Love’s number would put a stop to questions about the coach.