Matt Forte: Bears RB Could Be Key in NFC Championship Game

January 19, 2011   ·   Orly Rios Jr.   ·   Jump to comments

This weekend's NFC title game squares off the NFL's oldest rivalry, as the Chicago Bears host the red hot Green Bay Packers, who are coming off road wins against the NFC's No. 1 and No. 3 seeds.
All week long, the media hoopla has surrounded the Green Bay Packers, who enter Sunday's game as heavy favorites. Aaron Rodgers is unstoppable, the Packers defense unbreakable, nobody has a chance, certainly not Jay Cutler and the Chicago Bears, right?
The teams split the season series, with each team winning at home, although some, if not most, could argue that the second meeting was meaningless to the Chicago Bears, who had already clinched the No. 2 seed going into the final game of the regular season.
Sunday's game will spotlight the quarterback position as a red hot Aaron Rodgers takes on the gun-slinging, yet erratic Jay Cutler, and yet, the end result may not be in the hands of the quarterback, but rather in the hands of one of the most underrated running backs in the...

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