With 2019 now officially a lost cause, most people can start looking towards the Chicago Bears 2020 schedule to see if maybe that will be the year. Some people may not understand how the team can possibly know who their opponents will be but the reality is far different. Thanks to a streamlining of the NFL process and years of experience at breaking things down, it actually isn’t that hard to figure out.
The first part is easy enough. Chicago will face their three division rivals at home and on the road. That covers six games. Next will come the other divisions they play. In this case, it will happen to be both the NFC South and AFC South. That covers 14 of the 16 games. At that point comes something called “corresponding finishers.” In other words, the Bears will play teams who also finished 3rd in their divisions as they will in the North.
According to Brad Biggs of the Chicago Tribune, those finishers will come from the NFC West and NFC East. So looking at the entire landscape, here’s the full list of likely opponents the Bears will have next year.
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- Packers
- Lions
- Vikings
- Buccaneers
- Saints
- Colts
- Texans
- Redskins/Giants
Road:
- Packers
- Lions
- Vikings
- Falcons
- Panthers
- Jaguars
- Titans
- Rams
Chicago Bears 2020 schedule has plenty of intrigue
As things stand today, the schedule looks tough. Green Bay and Minnesota will make things hard enough. Yet the Bears will also have to deal with New Orleans again. Not to mention a highly-anticipated first clash between Mitch Trubisky and Deshaun Watson. This presuming Trubisky is still the starting quarterback next year. At the same time, one could make the argument that this slate of games is a bit more manageable on paper.
Currently, it features no fewer than eight games against opponents who will not make the playoffs this year. It could be 10 if the Titans and Rams fail to qualify in the final two weeks of the season. Then again none of this really matters. The Bears didn’t exactly face a brutal schedule in 2019. Eight of their first 14 games were against teams that won’t be in the playoffs this year. Nine if the Rams fail to qualify. Chicago was 5-4 in those games.
Put simply, they need to focus on their own problems. The schedule will be what it will be. If the Bears want to prove they can be champions, they should not bank on other teams trying to help them. They have to go out and prove it every week. Something they failed to do this year.
