Well, to be fair -- all four of the teams the Bears and the Vikings have played have yet to get a win. The Lions and Packers played admirably against their other opponants but couldn't win and the Redskins and Panthers, while still defensively ok teams are both completely unable to get any kind of offense going.

The Redskins are going to have a long year I think, but the Panthers always seem to start out slow and when they have Steve Smith back they can't help but get better.

The difference maker to me is this: The Bears crushed their opponants and the Vikings barely won. Granted, a win is a win and in the end thats all that counts but one was a close win against a team with no offense (with a $2 million offensive coordinator, ouch!) and the other they beat because of a botched special teams play. You can't measure by quality of the opponant all the time -- the next best thing is how they win. Good teams are supposed to crush bad teams. The Bears have so far. The Vikings have not.

That isn't to say the Vikings aren't a decent team... I just don't think they're decent enough to beat the current Bears.

But as Chris Berman says... on any given Sunday, you never know -- thats why the play the games.


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