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Get ready for either one of the greatest Saturday nights of your Chicago Bears fandom or one of the worst.

Wild Card weekend has the Green Bay Packers in the Windy City to take on the Chicago Bears, and the emotions will be high for this one. The rivalry, which has tilted toward the Packers over the last few decades, has been closer since Chicago drafted Caleb Williams, as these two teams have split their previous four games. All four of those have come down to the final seconds, and now they have a playoff game to amp the intensity and anxiety up even more.

GAME DAY INFO

Kickoff is scheduled for Saturday at 7 p.m. CT, from Soldier Field in Chicago, Illinois. The weather report has snow likely in the day, with a high of 32 and a low of 23, and winds of about 15 to 25 mph.

TELEVISION

The game will be on Amazon, with Al Michaels on play-by-play, Kirk Herbstreit on color, and Kaylee Hartung on the sideline. Amazon also has the alternate All-22ish view featuring Next Gen Stats from Sam Schwartzstein.

If you don’t have the streaming service but live in a local market, you’ll still be able to watch the game.

the Amazon broadcast of Packers-Bears will be simulcast on:

Green Bay: NBC 26
Milwaukee: FOX 6
Chicago: FOX 32
— 506 Sports (@506sports) January 6, 2026

RADIO

ESPN Chicago (1000 AM, 100.3 FM HD2) with Jeff Joniak, Tom Thayer, and Jason McKie on the call, and LATINO MIX 93.5 FM (Spanish) with Omar Ramos.

The Bears game can also be heard on SiriusXM.

GAME PREVIEWS

Sam Householder’s game preview is right here, plus we had several other previews at WCG and 2nd City Gridiron this week.

You can check out Taylor Doll’s preview show right here, featuring Bears legends Tom Waddle and Doug Plank!

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Our entire 2nd City Gridiron Podcast library can be found here, with plenty of Bears vs Packers previews:

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ODDS

The last time I checked, the odds from our partners at FanDuel had the Bears as a 1.5-point favorite and the over/under at 44.5.

POSTGAME coverage

This season, we have a brand new postgame show, so tune into our 2nd City Gridiron YouTube channel shortly after each Bears game for Wrap It Up with Jacob Infante! We’ll push it to our podcast channel as soon as possible after Jacob ends his live show.

Our day-after Bears game recap show is back for another season, so tune in for Bear & Balanced this Monday at 6:00 p.m. CT (or maybe Sunday morning this weekend) for a cooled-down review of the game with Jeff Berckes and me. Once we press stop on the show, you can catch the audio on our podcast channel.

Our 2nd City Gridiron Podcast Channel is available on Apple, Spotify, iHeart, Audacy, and other popular podcast platforms, so be sure to hit subscribe wherever you get your audio. Our YouTube home is also called 2nd City Gridiron, so subscribe there for our pods and other video content.