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Message: <blockquote data-quote="sschind" data-source="post: 835874" data-attributes="member: 10247">Football is a team sport and while having an elite QB makes things easier having an elite defense helps a lot too.  Trubisky (which a lot remains to be seen) and Cousins may not have to be Aaron Rodgers for their teams to win.  Just don't lose the game and let your defense win it for you.  Its happened before.Some people are making a big deal about the Packers having a new coach.  Just remember the Bears had a rookie head coach last year and they won the division.  In some ways the situations are similar.  The Bears fired Fox and brought in Nagy who kept Fangio around to help with continuity with a very strong defense.  The Packers fired McCarthy and brought in LaFleur who kept Pettine around for continuity of a young and hopefully up and coming defense. In some ways they are polar opposites.  The Bears have a great defense and a young but talented and potentially very good QB and the Packers have a great QB and a young and potentially very good defense.  Personally I'd rather be in the Packers situation because I'd rather have the great QB but its not all doom and gloom for the Bears.  If Trubisky improves a bit more they should be competitive for a while.In many ways I think a great defense helps a young QB more than a great QB helps a young defense.  A great defense can reduce the number of points a QB has to generate by keeping the opponents off the scoreboard and giving the QB more and better opportunities (turnovers, better field position, scoring themselves, etc.) This takes a lot of pressure of a young QB.  Yes a great QB can generate a lot of points but the defense still has to stop the opponents and if the QB is scoring quickly he may not be giving the defense a lot of rest which is one thing people claim a great QB does (keeps their defense and the opponents offense off the field) Granted if the QB scores a TD the opponents are playing catch up but the defense still has to do their part.  With a great defense a QB can often get by with simply not ******** up and losing the game.  Would you rather have the best QB in the league and the worst defense or the best defense and the worst QB?  I'd take the QB but it isn't quite that simple with the Packers and Bears since Trubisky isn't the worst QB and the Packers do not have the worst defense.The optimist in me says the Packers will take the division this year.  The pessimist says they won't but the realist says it is probably going to be a three team shootout.  If I had to give the edge to anyone it would probably be the Bears but only by an ever so slight margin over the Packers.  The margin is not great enough however that it prevents the optimist in me from winning out and my predicting the Packers win the division.</blockquote>

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