{"id":509840,"date":"2026-01-12T02:33:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-12T02:33:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/509840\/"},"modified":"2026-01-12T02:33:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T02:33:09","slug":"rams-to-face-bears-in-divisional-round-of-playoffs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/509840\/","title":{"rendered":"Rams to face Bears in Divisional Round of playoffs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With the 49ers&#8217; 23-19 win over the Eagles on Sunday, the No. 5 seed Rams are headed to Chicago to take on the No. 2 seed Bears at Soldier Field in next weekend&#8217;s divisional round of the playoffs.<\/p>\n<p>The winner of Rams-Bears will get the winner of Seahawks-49ers in the NFC Championship.<\/p>\n<p>The two teams last met in Week 4 of the 2023 regular season, a 24-18 Bears win at Soldier Field. While it&#8217;s the 98th overall meeting in series history across the regular season and playoffs, it&#8217;s only the third-ever postseason meeting between the two teams.<\/p>\n<p>The Bears advanced to the divisional round via a thrilling 31-27 win over the Packers on a game-winning touchdown pass from quarterback Caleb Williams to wide receiver D.J. Moore with just under two minutes to play. Chicago finished the regular season 11-6 to capture the NFC North title under first-year head coach Ben Johnson, which also gave the franchise its first playoff appearance since 2020.<\/p>\n<p>Kickoff date and time for Rams-Bears has yet to be announced.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With the 49ers&#8217; 23-19 win over the Eagles on Sunday, the No. 5 seed Rams are headed to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":509841,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1318,51,50,1425,52],"class_list":{"0":"post-509840","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-headlines","10":"tag-news","11":"tag-playoffs","12":"tag-top-stories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115879792038827763","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509840","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=509840"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509840\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/509841"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=509840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=509840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=509840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}