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Bears coach Matt Eberflus avoids fixating on Packers, but rivalry will define his tenure

Around this time last year, just days before Aaron Rodgers stomped the Bears yet again and taunted the crowd at Soldier Field by screaming, “All my [expletive] life, I own you,” he mentioned — unsolicited — an amusing pattern he’d noticed at Halas Hall.

Every Bears head coach — there have been five during his 15 seasons as Packers starter — blusters about the same thing.

“Themain focusforso many of these coaches’ press conferences in Chicago is beatingthePackers,” he said, knowing every word of it would sting a team he has now beaten 23 of 28 times.