2. Week 3-Dallas Cowboys
I could have ranked the Black Friday game against the Eagles here. But this is a game in which former embattled Bears head coach Matt Eberflus makes his return to Chicago as the defensive coordinator of the Dallas Cowboys. Since this game will be "America's Game Of The Week" on Fox Sports, the Eberflus storyline will likely be brought up a million times.
You can imagine Eberflus and some of the Bears players will downplay the significance of this game. But many fans will not forget what a disaster of a head coach he was. Ultimately, the Bears were able to land Ben Johnson as their new head coach, which would not have been possible had the Bears won several more games last season under Eberflus, giving false hope that the team was turning things around.
Ben Johnson is also going up against another first-time head coach in Brian Schottenheimer, a son of the late Marty Schottenheimer. Schottenheimer better hope his defense can slow down the Bears' offense. However, Johnson is 5-1 against Eberflus in the last three years. It will be interesting to see if Johnson, now as the head coach, can still outsmart Eberflus.