Championship weekend. 

Green Bay Packers at Chicago Bears.

NY Jets at Pittsburgh Steelers.

As of this moment the Packers are favorites by 3.5 and the Steelers are favorites by 3.5. 

The regular season meetings:

Week 3: Packers 17 Bears 20 @ Chicago

Week 17: Packers 10 Bearrs 3 @ Green Bay

Week 15: Jets 22 Steelers 17 @ Pittsburgh

The Packers are a better team than the week 3 one that came out on the field.  They have battled injuries all year and have come out on top.  Aaron Rodgers is playing great football.  He reminds me of a young Brett Favre.  The Bears are a far better team than we saw during the beginning to first half of the season.  Cutler's mistakes are down and the defense is playing well.  Their special teams is a serious threat and has really helped the offense.  They have also been winning games against other great teams.  Their improvement can be seen in their performance last week when they beat the Seattle Seahawks who they lost to earlier in the year.  The Packers beat the best ranked team in the NFC last week after losing to them during the season.  Both teams grew this season.  They seem to have found themselves during the course of the season.  These are currently the two best teams in the NFC and it should be one great game.  The same can be said about the Jets vs Steelers.  The Jets are very very very good when they want to be.  They have beaten Peyton Manning and Tom Brady (two hall of fame first ballot qbs) back to back.  That is simply amazing.  They now have a chance to add Rothlisberger and the Steelers to that list.  They will have knocked off the three best AFC teams in the last decade and cement themselves as the elite.    

Now for the games:

Packers @ Bears - I think the Packers will win.  Their defense is strong and will stop the Bears offense. They are aggressive and will get after a Cutler.  Cutler is mistake prone and the Packers defense is a magnet for the ball.  Advantage Packers defense.  The Packers offense will focus on the passing game and just because they dont have an effective rushing attack doesnt mean they wont continue to try to run the ball.  It still forces the defense to play honest.  Which should open things up.  The Bears play a Tampa 2 scheme which gives up underneath plays and keeps the game in front of the them not letting anything deep.  The Packers and Aaron Rodgers do an excellent job of playing the mid range passing game and running timing routes.  The key will be if Aaron Rodgers can buy time to extend plays long enough for the Bears zone defense to break down and then complete passes deep.  He needs to be patient and take what the defense gives him.  I think he will be able to do that.  Hes a fairly mobile QB and doesnt make too many mistakes which shows that he is smart with the ball.  If he just does that, the Packers should roll.  Advantage Packers.  As for special teams, the Bears are clearly better.  Deven Hester is supremely dangerous and if he continues to get the Bears offense great field position, itll be a tough day for the Packers defense.  They must contain him if they want to win.  If they can do that, the Packers have a great shot at winning.  In the end I predict Packers will win 23-20.   

Jets @ Steelers

I dont know these two teams as well as the Packers and Bears.  But the Steelers are a tough team to beat.  I think they have been beaten up by the Ravens last week.  Rex Ryan knows the Steelers really well from his days in Baltimore, and the Jets are playing their best football after dispatching two of the top teams in the AFC.  You can never couth Big Ben out.  It could go either way. I strongly believe that both teams are matched very well.  If they played eachother 50 times, the winning percentage for each of them would around 50% .  It just depends on how the game plays out.  How the scenarios during the game unfold.  What I mean is that I dont think either team is better than the other.  Its just going to be the luck of the draw.  A dropped pass, a batted ball, that could prevent a third down conversion leading to the other team scoring on the next drive.  Something that wouldnt happen 9/10 times on a certain play or a set of plays might be the difference.  As long as both teams come to play, it should be close.  The Steelers will be there to play, will the Jets?  I think it will be 27-23 Jets.