"It's a very tight schedule": the Bears' 11th week match against the Vikings gave way to "Sunday night football"

The match of the 11th week of the Bear against the Vikings, Sunday, November 18th at Soldier Field, started at 19:20.

This is the second time this season that the Bears will appear on "Sunday Night Football" on NBC. The Bears lost to the Packers 24-23 in the opening game of the season.

The game is the second of three consecutive games of the NFC North in 12 days for the Bears. The Bears (5-3) and Vikings (5-3-1) are at the top of the division until the 9th week.

"When we first came here, the team and I talked about how lucky we were to have two games in prime time to start the year," said the Bears coach Matt Nagy about the Week 1 Packers game and the Monday night football game against the Seahawks. on weekdays and 2.

"They do not come easily. The goal is to have many throughout the season. It means that you are well. Being flexible for this game, a division game, should be exciting for our team and our players. "

The night game is a major challenge for the Bears as they will have less than four days to face the Vikings and face the Lions in Detroit at 11:30 am on Thanksgiving Day.

"It's a very tight schedule for us," said Nagy. "But we can not worry about that. We will focus on what we have this week, and at that point we will organize the program and make sure everything is fine. "

The list of division games begins Sunday against the Lions at noon at Soldier Field. The Bears also have December games against the Packers on December 16 and the Vikings on December 30.

The Bears have been between 6 and 25 in the division since 2013. But Nagy did not participate in the loss and the freshman said the Bears were not talking about the past difficulties.

"As an organization, we have such a good place right now," said Nagy. "The atmosphere we have, we learn to win in a different way. We learned what you lose and how you react to it. But we are really trying to create our own culture and to create our own story. It's week after week, it's convenient after practice.

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