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Patch vs. Patch: Editors Debate Who Will Have Bragging Rights Sunday Evening

Yorkville Patch warns Wisconsin's Muskego Patch not to get too confident about a Packer's win. It ain't happening.

As the Bears prepare to trounce the Packers during Sunday’s NFL playoff game, Patch sites in the states of Wisconsin and Illinois are busy brewing their own battle.

 Yorkville Patch has teamed up with Muskego Patch in Wisconsin, where Local Editor Heather Asiyanbi is Da Bears are likely to fall to her home team, the Packers. She was adament: Da Bears are going down.

Um, no.

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That’s the best response I could come up with. (Shh ... I'm not much of a football fan, so I tend to rely on attitude, not facts, when talkin' smack.) But never fear - New Lenox Patch Editor Michael Sewall came to the Bears' (and my rescue) with three well-reasoned, persuasive arguments.

Why Sewall knows Da Bears will win:

No. 3: It's Chicago's year. Not that it's ever really Green Bay's year, or Wisconsin's year. Sports is just a bigger deal in our city, and part of that is that we've got better teams. The Blackhawks won the Stanley Cup. The Bulls will compete for an NBA title. And the Sox (on the south side here, it's Sox country) are built to win again after just five years removed from the World Series. It's the Bears' turn to come up big now, and they've got the defense and an offense that's finally clicking (see more on that soon). We're the true Title Town USA, and our champion fans will prove it this week.

No. 2: Fast Don't Lie. OK, the Bulls' Derrick Rose has been using that slogan in his commercials, but another Chicago athlete should join D-Rose in those spots because he's truly the X-factor in this game. If all-purpose kick returner/wide receiver Devin Hester gets a shot, he can change the course of the game more than anyone else on the field. The Packers will likely kick away from him, but you can't rule out his ability to run after the catch or a flip/reverse to him in the return game. We saw what Hester did returning the kickoff for a touchdown to open the 2007 Super Bowl. Expect more fireworks this weekend.

No. 1: Offense will win the game. This probably sounds good for Green Bay after the Packers just put up 48 on the Falcons and the last time these two met the Bears managed just three points. But these are two fantastic defenses, and whichever teams gets the edge on offense will win.

The difference in this game is that the Bears' No. 2-ranked run defense (second only to the Steelers) will shut down the shell of a run game the Packers have left, and that will make Aaron Rodgers one-dimensional. The Bears, on the other hand, are hitting a stride on offense.

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They put up 40 points against a good Vikings defense and 38 against a very good Jets defense. The three points against the Pack was simply because the team had locked up the 2-seed and didn't care. But now this team, including the offense, is in a balanced attack, prove-you-wrong, screw-you Rick Reilly mode. The Packers' defense is great, but the Bears will have their number this week.

But I'm sure we don't have to convince you, dear readers, why Da Bears rule. Check to see Asiyanbi's reasons (delusions?) why the Packers will come out on top.

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