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The last two weeks, the Bears needed fourth-quarter comebacks to take down the Bengals and the Vikings to start the year 2-0. The Steelers haven't really even gotten things off the ground, falling 0-2 behind losses to the Titans and to the Bengals on Monday night.
The Bears play their first road game of the year; the Steelers will be at home for the second time. Can the Bears pull out another win in Marc Trestman's road debut?
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We slipped and didn't get up a TV thread for you this morning, so here's your relevant info!
If you get NBC, congratulations, the Bears and Steelers are on Sunday Night Football. And that comes with the lone instance of free online streaming of an NFL football game! You can get more information about that here.
Game Time: 7:30 CT/ 8:30 ET
Location: Heinz Field, Pittsburgh, PA.
Radio: 780 WBBM
TV: Well, yeah, it's on NBC, but here's the TV Maps from the 506 if you want information on everything else happening today too. Hint, there's some early football on today.
Odds: Here you go. Bears -3 over at Bovada.
Behind Enemy Lines: The Pittsburgh Steelers' community on SBN can be found over at Behind the Steel Curtain.
NFL.com Preview: Right here too.
Injuries: Les beat me to it this week.
Coming Up Next Week: The Bears get the Lions next week in the afternoon again.
Let's hit the usual linkage and get into the party.
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Charles Tillman's still questionable. Andy by questionable, we mean "Does he punch two balls or four?".
ESPNChicago's Five Things to Watch.
Mark Potash says the Bears don't need a genius to win on the road. No, but they kind of need a football coach.
Jay Cutler needed Matt Cavanaugh's no-nonsense style. As if we didn't have enough blunt, no-nonsense jerkfaces who don't smile after turnovers on the team.
And if you haven't been watching for the Bears Den at all, especially Spongie's always-loaded Weekend Edition, what is wrong with you?
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Today's pre-party thread is brought to you a little early, but we'll have the early games thread popping up at noon CT with the late games thread coming in at 3:15 PM CT. Today's first-quarter thread will show up about 7:30 PM CT, when the first quarter gets underway, and each subsequent thread will pop up as the game progresses. Immediately after the game we'll have a quick recap with Notes coming up in the morning.
With the propers out of the way, Bear Down, my friends.
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As has been done the last couple weeks, we'll do our WCG Pre-Party stream this morning. This window will light up with the stream at 9:30 AM CT (make sure your volume is on or the stream is unmuted!). We'll take your questions and comments in the thread, in Twitch chat, and on Twitter.