BearFan2000

they'll overturn it, the zebras know who pays their salary

Trestman must have reminded Jay at halftime that there are other receivers on the field besides marshall But on that note Rodgers has a similar tendency to force feed Nelson.

holy shit that was a nice play. that should be a TD I think he crossed the plain before he was down

nice job of cob pushing off

tackling is optional should have had that stuffed in the backfield instead he nearly scores from midfiled

adjustment 13-7 at half so it'll be 20-7 when the bears offense next gets the ball. On a side note someone with better ears than me any idea what that ref was yelling to castanza (52) after that skirmish at the end of the half it sounded like: "Get your hands off..... your as close as....." last thing sounded like "get out"

Exactly. there's been at least 3 winnable games that we blew. Against the skins, second detroit game, and second vikings game. Win any one of those three or more and we have this division locked up and this game would be meaningless. The Bears made their bed and now they are having to lie in it.

are the announcers contractually obligated to say Aaron Rodger's name every other sentence or more? It's like when Favre was there.

well 17-7 going into halftime and the Pukers get the ball to start the second half... so it'll be 24-7 next time the offense gets the ball.

I re-watched it live no whistle blew till butfk crossed the goal line. It was the correct call, Bears D and really all but 3 players on the field were assuming it was over.

as much as I hate it it's the right call.... our guys not paying attention to the fact that the whistle hadn't been blown.... this sucks big time.

their going to be upheld. This friggin sucks

bullshit that's incomplete

can we cut Podlesh at halftime?

nice sack... unless he can fit it to Marshall he'll hold the ball till either he takes a sack or Marshall gets open.

Personal foul on Shea for tackling the QB. BS phantom call. He was trying to let up as Peppers had him, and when your in the air on your way down. Apparently it's his fault he doesn't possess air breaks. But then again the Packers travel with their own officiating group.

you could buy it without his name on it so if he returns to suckage you can say it's Dan Hampton's

Good points and the last one is one that has crossed my mind. Rodgers already gets preferential treatment being a marquee player coming back from an injury they'll probably give him the "marquee plus" treatment plan that ensures at least one phantom roughing for breathing on, looking at him funny, or some such crap. But knowing that the packers will probably get beneficial officiating as if it were in cheeseland. At the end of the day the onus is going to be on the Bears. They looked like crud on both sides of the ball and special teams last week. we were -2 in the turnover dept (one of them going for 6). We didn't stop the run, we didn't stop the pass, Harry and Loyd from dumb and dumber would have played better last week. I think your right that the pack will use max protect more than normal so it's going to be hard to get pressure if our line play this year is any indication. But if we can get a solid game out of Peppers, Radcliff, Shea, Pea, wooten etc. The key on D will be if our line can step up and disrupt him but also play with better discipline in the run game. As you point out Rodgers is not stupid he's going to do what he needs to do to stay upright for 4 quarters. And he won't be afraid to get the ball out quick or throw it away. The our secondary is going to have to have one of it's best games, as Rodgers has a nack for fitting the ball into tiny windows accurately, so our habit of giving quarterbacks huge picture windows to throw through coverage needs to be tighter. On offense it we need to use ball control. Good mix of run/pass long sustained scoring drives. When we've been successful we've usually dominated time of possession. Rodgers and the packer offense can't score from the sidelines. So we need long time consuming drives. Jay needs to spread the ball around better. His tendency to force it to Marshall only makes their job easier. A good mixture in targets will make it tough to know who to defend, which is why we got Bennet, and drafted Jeffery to go with Marshall. Lastly but not leastly, the line must protect Jay and give him time as well as open holes for Forte. A loss should be unacceptable to the players. And IMO would rival the collapse of last season. With two games to go in an up and down season we have a shot to clinch the division against the Eagles. The table was set perfectly. We blew it big time. Now we have a second chance to clinch the division and knock out the Pukers at home.

From the date on the original post I think it was referring to Rodgers being out last week vs Pittsburg. Rodgers is reportedly in this week. The were talking about it on the radio speculating he wouldn't be ready because of the high risk for more serious damage if he got hit hard. A Ratliff sack could be that kinda hard hit that make him regret starting. But honestly I'd prefer to beat them with Rodgers, so there isn't that excuse of "well you beat us when we were without rodgers"

I think it has to change. Forget tying to cater a system to what the guys are used to. While at the time the reasoning may have made sense as the D was our strong suit the past 5-10 years. But the Tampa 2 that Lovie Ran only works when you have two key ingredients. pressure from your front 7, and turnovers. We are getting almost no pressure at all, allowing QB's to have all day to throw, which exposes our poor secondary coverage so teams can light us up in the pass game, we play undisciplined in our run D and so we get lit up by anyone coming out of the backfield carrying the ball even guys who were on some teams practice squad the week before. It's time for a change whether it's Tucker back next year and he puts in a different system, or we bring in someone else to run their system. We didn't change our system from last year because "if it aint broke don't fix it" well it's pretty damn broken and needs to be fixed. This will be the key to any future success. When you can't stop anyone on d you give up points like we did today, and it puts all the pressure on your offense to "keep up" when the opposition knows they've made you one dimensional. With the offense developing into a better scoring offense, we don't need a spectacular D we just need a good D.

I hope the Bears really take a good look at themselves... and that this game thoroughly pisses them off as much or more than it does us. They should be ashamed of the way they played today. Not a single player on this team has any reason to feel good about themselves. We had the table set. Detroit lost, GB lost, a win tonight and we clinch and not only did we crap it down our leg tonight we looked bad doing it. I'm embarrassed, ashamed and pissed at this team tonight. I saw no desire, no effort, no pride. This was a gutless pathetic effort.

I hope the whole eagles team gets hurt for running up the score.

I'm tired of wasting viewing time and energy hoping jay gets his head out of his arse. We have an offensive line, big targets, and we've seen this offense hum with McCown. Jay steps in and the offense regresses. I don't want Jay back here next year. I'm done with him, there is nothing defensible about his game.

I'm with ya. Can the Bears just leave him in Philly?

Well Jay is in the Christmas spirit. A gift wrapped TD. Damn is Jay good at doing that.