Tom Brady's Opinion of Bears Can Go No Higher After Monday's Win
The seven-time Super Bowl winner showed he has a high opinion of Ben Johnson's team when he did his weekly power rankings. When the person doing the ranking is the GOAT, then it carries a little more weight. Fox announcer/Raiders part owner Tom Brady saw what he needed to see from the Bears in Monday night's win over Seattle and decided they could jump in his Fox power rankings past several teams he had them ranked behind last week, following their win over his former team, New England. In fact, Brady moved the Bearsall the way from fifth to No. 1 in the NFL after the win over Seattle. It definitely didn't hurt that the winner of seven Super Bowl rings just saw the Bears beat the teams playing for the rings given away to end last season. "Last week, I asked if Chicago could go from No. 5 to No. 1 with a win in Seattle, and I'm a man of my word," Brady said, for Fox. "The Bears went into Seattle on Monday night and handled their business. D'Andre Swift scored three times, and when Seattle made it a one-score game late, Chicago answered. This is the best team in the league. Full stop. Best team in the league. Have elite QB play, best coach in the game, great OL play, weapons and now a game wrecker on defense, Dog walked the champs in their own building. Put the league on notice. pic.twitter.com/Op0FaJsQk3 And, oh yeah, Jeffery Simmons is anchoring the defense from now on. No big deal, right?"
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Ballin' with backups: Malik Nabers is most QB proof WR since Larry Fitzgerald, DeAndre Hopkins
Malik Nabers has four straight 100-yard receiving games with backup QBs entering Sunday's game vs. Philadelphia What a difference a few months makes. During the preseason, we were all wondering if Malik Nabers would even be healthy for the start of the season after he had April clean-up surgery following the torn ACL and meniscus injury he suffered in 2025. Now, he looks like a top-five wide receiver who is building off a superb rookie year and poised to carry a rejuvenated Giants team to a division title, with a QB carousel in tow. Week 4: 6 catches, 112 yards, touchdown (Jameis Winston at QB) Week 5: 11 catches, 121 yards, touchdown (Jameis Winston at QB) Week 6: 12 catches, 165 yards (Jameis Winston and J.J. McCarthy at QB) He's the first player with four straight 100-yard receiving games, all with non-Week 1 starting QBs (for the sake of brevity, I'll call them "backups"), since Cris Carter in 1999. It's tied for the longest streak by any player since the 1970 merger, with the likes of Carter, Rob Moore, Jerry Rice and Carl Pickens. That means if he hits the century mark on Sunday vs. Philadelphia, he will be the only player since the merger with five straight 100-yard games with backup quarterbacks. Video 12Audio 3Audio 41/1 Skip Ad Continue watching after the adVisit Advertiser websiteGO TO PAGE Longest streaks with 100+ rec yds, all with backup QBs since 1970 He has as many 100-yard receiving games as the rest of the NFL combined with backup QBs this year (four).
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