Swing game

LAKE FOREST, Ill. -- This contest with Arizona may have long lasting implications for the Bears in 2009. A win over the Cardinals would give the Bears momentum heading out to San Francisco on a short week, and also allow them to keep pace with Dallas, New York, Atlanta, Philadelphia and Green Bay -- Minnesota may be impossible to catch. A loss, and the short turnaround for the Niners look much more daunting. Falling to 4-4, with all those teams in the NFC wildcard race, would be a big hole from which to escape. "You look down our schedule and there's not a lot of easy wins coming up," Hunter Hillenmeyer said. "They're all good football teams. At the beginning of the season where everybody was talking about how we had such an easy schedule, all of those teams that we counted on not being so great, are playing really good football." "I think Arizona is a team, in particular, that's better than their record. They've lost three games, but they ...