Let me be the first to say it: No way the Chicago Bears go undefeated.

Monday night's comeback win was spectacular. The Bears turned the ball over six times. They didn't score an offensive touchdown. Yet they came back from a 20-0 halftime deficit to edge the hapless Arizona Cardinals in the desert, 24-23. It was stirring. It was emotional. It was the hallmark of a great team - somehow finding a way to win when you're not playing your best.

But they won't go undefeated.

As the Bears go into their bye week with a record of 6-0, you're going to start hearing all the "undefeated" hype. You'll read that their remaining schedule is soft. You'll read about karma and fate. You'll hear comparisons to 1985 and the last Bears team that everyone thought would go unblemished.

But it won't happen.

I'm not saying it's impossible. Somewhere down the line - and it might be way down the line - a team is going to cork the champagne bottles of the obnoxious 1972 Dolphins for good. But if those Bears couldn't do it in 1985 with the greatest defense in NFL history and the late, great Walter Payton, these Bears aren't going to do it in 2006.

Sure, they'll get by San Francisco and they'll probably beat Miami, but then the Bears travel into the lion's den. Not literally - Chicago doesn't visit Detroit until Week 16. But in a three-week span, the Bears will go to the Meadowlands twice to play the Giants and the Jets, then travel to New England for a date with the Patriots. If they somehow manage to take a 10-0 record to Gillette Stadium, write it down: Tom Brady, Bill Belichick and the Pats will put a stop to Chicago's undefeated dreams in a Foxboro flash.

Which might, after all, be a good thing. In 1985, the Dolphins, with members of the 1972 squad cheering them from the sidelines, pummeled a 12-0 Bears team in an Orange Bowl Monday nighter that, to this day, remains the most electric game that prime time series ever produced. The Dolphins celebrated that day, but they merely won the battle. The Bears went on win the war, coasting to the Super Bowl, where they crushed the Patriots to complete perhaps the most dominating season an NFL team has ever had.

The 2006 Bears might also win the Super Bowl. In fact, they're clearly the favorites. They have a great defense and an offense that can put up points against anybody, despite what happened Monday night in Arizona.

Yes, the Bears can win it all. But there's no way they'll win them all.