LAKE FOREST, Ill. (AP) — The Chicago Bears pulled off a surprise in coach Matt Eberflus' head coaching debut when they beat San Francisco in a driving rainstorm at Soldier Field on Sunday. They'll try to do it again when they visit Green Bay this week.
Just don't tell star linebacker Roquan Smith that beating the 49ers was a surprise. Or that knocking off Aaron Rodgers and the Packers would be, too.
“We didn’t see it as an upset,” Smith said Monday. “We expected to go in there and win. You know, maybe you guys, the other media and everyone else said, hey, this and that.