Wow. Rodgers played his ass off completing like 110% of his pass attempts. We actually played a pretty good game tonight but the GB penalties were the star. 18 I think?
3-0 baby!
WHOO HOOO!!! GO BEARS!!!
ok, all you Cheeseheads and ESPN LOSERS,
How you like us NOW?
I guess…
Grumble…stupid lousy penalties…grumble…look out Lions…
Actually, I like Rodgers better than I ever did Favre. At least he’s a team player. The penalties hurt you and I’m not depending on them for the season finale, but you might want to tell your DB’s to stop whining in the locker room. That pass INT near the end gets called every time.
I’ll calm down, but you can’t blame me for a bit of gloating after that game. I was expecting a Packer blowout and a week of avoiding TV highlights.
I’m a lifelong Bears fan and love when they win and will take them anyway they come (particularly against the Pack).
That said I am not confident of the Bear’s chances down the road so find it hard to be all “In your face!” with this as I’d like to be since I would likely eat those words.
The Bears show some promise in a few places and look terrible in others. Definitely not a Superbowl team…not even close.
I only watched a little, but I was surprised to see the Bears had won this morning. It looked to me like Green Bay was going to take the game easily. Any given Monday, eh?
You know… except… someone from the NFC has to go to the Super Bowl. I mean, it’s kind of a depressing thought, looking across the NFC landscape, but can you name an NFC team that is clearly and obviously better than Bears? The Packers just lost to them and I’d say the two teams are basically equal talent-wise. The Vikings are flawed in several ways, most notably the fact that their quarterback doesn’t want to be there. The Eagles are riding an improbably hot streak from a quarterback with no track record, and have no running game. The Saints haven’t looked good in one game this year. The Falcons? Who even knows about that team. The Giants? The Cowboys? Anyone from the NFC West?
The Bears may not be definitively the best in the conference, but I’d say “definitely not a Superbowl team, not even close” is a way pessimistic outlook given that, again, somebody in the NFC has to be a Super Bowl team and none of the options above are clearly better than the Bears.
At the end of the day you need to put points on the board. The Bears offensive line is horrible. The Bears were lucky to put up 20 points yesterday.
Until the offense does a better job of controlling the line they are screwed. You can only rely on luck so long before it fails you.
It all comes down to people dining on sour grapes. Farve is killing the Vikings, the Packers are killing themselves, and the Bears seem to be on the rise.
And I’d watch out for Vick and the Eagles.
Okay, probably a dumb question, especially as I worked on football teams in high school and college, but…what was up with that weird kickoff return play at the end of the game?? What’s the rule on how far the ball can be thrown? And I guess there’s no limit to the number of times the ball can be passed or handed off after the kickoff?
Here’s the play in question.
You can pass the ball around on any play as much as you want as long as the ball moves backwards (excepting of course from behind scrimmage on a normal play in which case anyone can throw it forwards). Note the ref calls the play dead when they pass the ball to a guy and it hits the ground and moves forward.
No limit as to the number or distance of backward passes. When a forward pass is thrown and caught, the officials drop a penalty flag, but play continues. When a forward pass is thrown and not caught, another flag drops, and play is whistled dead.
By rule, when the offense commits a penalty (or penalties) on a play during which time expires, the game is over. By scoring rule, the offense is charged with one penalty for zero yards. This meant that the Packers were charged with their all-important 18th penalty, setting a new team record.
I’m curious though.
Looking at the play again seems the pass was backwards but the player it was thrown to didn’t manage to catch it.
To me that is a fumble and, in this case, a fumble forward (the fumble technically being the guy who passed the ball and not the guy trying to catch it).
Or maybe it is more accurate to call it a muff but not sure how that is dealt with.
So was I the only one who wondered why Cutler can throw the ball into the fourth row of the stands 30 yards from any receiver to avoid a sack, but Rodgers gets a grounding penalty for throwing a ball to the sideline 15 yards from a receiver?
I can’t watch video at work, but yes, an incomplete backward pass muffed forward would be a muff, so the rules against advancing a fumble in the last two minutes don’t apply.
Not sure what play you are talking about.
I recall Rodgers being chased and nearly sacked twice when he intentionally threw the ball away as he was about to fall (from being tripped up). No flag on that play.
IIRC the rule is there is no intentional grounding once you are out of the pocket. I am guessing that was the difference in whatever you are thinking about.
Simple–Rodgers was in the pocket. Cutler wasn’t.
I haven’t sen that part of the game again to check, but on the last play, I remember that the announcers said “That’s a forward pass” right before the officials threw a flag, and a couple throws later, “there’s another forward pass” from the annuncer. The Packers did it twice.
As for the intentional grounding, my girlfriend asked a question…If the QB leaves the pocket, and then runs back into it (between the tackles) before throwing the ball away, is it still intentional grounding? I didn’t think it was, but wasn’t sure.
Two very ugly wins by the Bears… but they still count.
Both teams played really poorly, but I must admit the bear’s o-line actually looked competent compared to earlier in the season.
Only relatively speaking.
They still looked bad in my view.