Day 8 of the Chicago Bears offseason. Who’s ready for the Super Bowl?
Super Bowl LX is Set … So Who Ya Got?
— Bleacher Nation Bears (@BN_Bears) January 26, 2026 It’s wild to think about Sam Darnold being the first quarterback taken in Round 1 from the famed 2018 NFL Draft class of signal callers to reach the Super Bowl. Not Josh Allen. Not Lamar Jackson. Not Baker Mayfield. But Sam Darnold. What a journey for that guy! Kinda funny: Darnold leaving the Vikings and immediately leading his new team to the Super Bowl is a painfully on-brand development for that franchise. Meaanwhile, Drake Maye is the first quarterback from the 2024 NFL Draft class to make it to the big game. Grumble. No hard feelings. However, I’ll admit that it stings a little bit knowing how close Caleb Williams and the Bears were to playing in the NFC Championship Game. And once you make it to that game, anything is possible. But you can’t make the Super Bowl unless you make it to a conference title game first. Maybe I’ll save this as a potential BN Bears podcast segment — re-draft the quarterbacks from the 2018 and 2024 NFL Draft classes.CONSIDER SUBSCRIBING TO THE BN BEARS PODCAST: Apple | Spotify | YouTube
Mandatory Credit: Kirby Lee-USA TODAY Sports Mike Vrabel and Mike Macdonald are the head coaches for the big game. Vrabel is in his first season back with the Patriots franchise, while Macdonald is in his second year with his. This should serve as a reminder of how quickly things can turn around for an organization if it makes the right hire. With that being said, I couldn’t stop thinking last night about how the winners of the AFC and NFC Championship games made me think how Sunday wasn’t a great day for the “you can’t hire a defensive-leaning head coach and expect to go to the Super Bowl” crowd. Don’t get me wrong. I like that the Bears have an offensive-leaning head coach and wouldn’t have it any other way. However, my larger point is that it is long past time to stop opining in absolutes when it comes to the NFL. Perhaps we should re-visit the “only a Sith deals in absolutes” rule. None of this is predictable, so let’s stop acting like there is only one way to carve a successful path. I was feeling a little petty on Sunday, so I have no problem admitting that I enjoyed watching seeing the Rams lose. Mandatory Credit: David Banks-Imagn Images Here’s hoping the NFL doesn’t do something silly like play its conference championship games on a Sunday and on a Monday, which is something I saw floated last night on Twitter/X. Championship Sunday is perfect as is, so don’t try to fix what isn’t broken. There is a part of me that is willing to be open to one game on Saturday and the other being played on Sunday. You could talk me into that one. But miss me with the idea that playing the NFC or AFC Championship Game on a Monday night would be a good thing. Also a good thing: Watching football being played in the snow. That was neat to see between the Patriots and Broncos. It wasn’t pretty, but it was never going to be pretty. A game featuring a second-year quarterback making his first ever AFC title game start and his counterpart playing in his first significant game since 2023 always had potential to be a alog. Heck, this game felt destined to be one where points were tough to come by because it pitted a Broncos defense that allowed the third-fewest points and second-fewest yards and a Patriots bunch that boasts the NFL’s fourth-best scoring defense and ranked eighth in yards allowed. And it’s not as if these teams were lighting it up before the snow. It was a 10-7 game at halftime! The lack of scoring in snowy Denver led to plenty of online discourse about domed stadiums hosting important NFL games. And when I saw it, my eyes rolled in the back of my head so hard that I wasn’t sure that they would come back to the front of my face. I think it’s time we stop pretending that teams are building domed stadiums because it makes the football better and start acknowledging that domed stadiums are built as cash grabs for a team’s owner and the league — often at the expense of taxpayers. I still can’t believe the Bills are bucking the trend with a new stadium that doesn’t have a dome. Good for them:Buffalo’s new $2.2B Highmark Stadium opens this summer with a canopy preventing snowfall on most seats, heated field and concourses, and climate-controlled warmup areas. A modern, identity-driven build that keeps football outdoors. t.co/d1rORnbdSp pic.twitter.com/VhFeWRTFH1
— Sports Business Journal (@SBJ) January 24, 2026 HEADS UP! The Bears are scheduled to play a road game in Buffalo this upcoming season. That feels like an ideal spot for a primetime game. BONUS HEADS UP: Chicago’s football team will also square off against both Super Bowl contestants and the AFC Championship Game runner-up. For as much as is being made of Drake Maye’s road to the Super Bowl being seen as a cake walk, he did face quality defenses when squaring off against the Chargers (9th in scoring, 5th in yards) and Texans (2nd in scoring, fewest points allowed). And, for what it’s worth, Maye’s stats are indicative of a quarterback who was facing stiff competition. Maye’s playoff line through three games: 43/77 (55.8 completion pct.), 533 yards, 4 TD, 2 INT, 84.0 passer rating. A tweet from the @NFL_Researcher account: “The Patriots have averaged 18.0 PPG this postseason, the fewest by any team to make the Super Bowl since the 1979 Rams (15.0).” I love art:Caleb Williams ? Alan Page Community Award finalist art. @CALEBcsw pic.twitter.com/xYs0jE5Dh3
— NFLPA (@NFLPA) January 24, 2026 NFL Network insider Ian Rapoport reports (via Twitter/X) that the Miami Dolphins are hiring Tyke Tolbert as their new wide receivers coach. If that name sounds familiar to you, it might be because Tolbert coached Bears receivers in 2022 and 2023. Nothing crazy here from a Bears perspective, but it is still fun to read a piece like this from ESPN that gets NFL executives to predict the offseason. One year after making history by becoming the first sitting United States president to attend the Super Bowl, Donald Trump will not be at Super Bowl LX. His reasoning? “It’s just too far away,” Trump said, via the New York Post.MORE BEARS FROM BLEACHER NATION: Go Ad-Free | Subscribe to the BN Newsletter
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