Week 6: Bears @ Arizona - Monday, Oct. 16th, 7:30 pm CT

[Laura]

It'll take an hour or two before it's up, but highlights will be up here.

 

I can't wait!!! :D

[Brian]

sweet, You have the Gould video.

 

Did anybody here Joniak's call of the Hester return? I loved his call of it in the first game, this had to be so much better.

[David]

I'm probably just reiterating what everyone has already said.. but WOW...

 

A win's a win. It'll show up the same in the standings. For a team to go 16-0 (or even 15-1), they have to win a game like this. It's the game that 9 out of 10 times is a loss.

 

All the great teams win games they should have lost, and this was just one of the most ridiculous examples I've ever seen of that. It's probably a good thing for the Bears, though. Now they have a bye week to stew over a terribly played game, and yet, they still came out on top.

 

Hopefully they won't take anymore opponents lightly,and maybe Ron Turner will realize that play action isn't going to work if you're not running the ball at all. It looked like the Carolina game out there.

 

Also, Matt Leinart was impressive. So was the Cardinals defense. Pressure all night.

[Flames24Rulz]

Ok. Just got back from the campus bars.

 

HOLY ****ING S****!!!!!! WHAT AN AMAZING GAME!!!

 

It was pandemonium there. Glasses breaking, beer spilling, tables pounding, students dancing, high fiving, body slamming.....

 

It was especially sweet because there was a Cardinals fan that was giving us crap the whole night.

 

BEARS BEARS BEARS BERASB ASERB ASERSB ARSSBASRES!!!!

 

Holy crap hahahahaha. I'm jealous now that I didn't go to a bar now. Even though its Rams and Chiefs country down here, there's plenty of Bears fans and I'm sure they were going nuts at the bars.

 

It's official, I'm wearing my Urlacher jersey on campus tomorrow now.

 

It was pandemonium down here after the game...not only the yelling on the floor and the jumping up and down, but after the game, at least 150-200 students went outside the dorms and started chanting "6 and 0" and "We're going to the Super Bowl."

 

Pissed me off pretty good :x

[adamb0719]

It looked like the Carolina game out there.

 

 

 

My group of friends and I probably said that around 100 times tonight watching the game.

[sherwood921]

Ok. Just got back from the campus bars.

 

HOLY ****ING S****!!!!!! WHAT AN AMAZING GAME!!!

 

It was pandemonium there. Glasses breaking, beer spilling, tables pounding, students dancing, high fiving, body slamming.....

 

It was especially sweet because there was a Cardinals fan that was giving us crap the whole night.

 

BEARS BEARS BEARS BERASB ASERB ASERSB ARSSBASRES!!!!

 

Holy crap hahahahaha. I'm jealous now that I didn't go to a bar now. Even though its Rams and Chiefs country down here, there's plenty of Bears fans and I'm sure they were going nuts at the bars.

 

It's official, I'm wearing my Urlacher jersey on campus tomorrow now.

 

It was pandemonium down here after the game...not only the yelling on the floor and the jumping up and down, but after the game, at least 150-200 students went outside the dorms and started chanting "6 and 0" and "We're going to the Super Bowl."

 

Pissed me off pretty good :x

 

I watched it at my buddies apt. but people were sliding in the wet grass/mud when I walked home. I actually left after Grossman threw his last pick. When I got outside in the rain they were leaning over the balcony screaming at me to come back. We definately caused a commotion during that punt return as well.

[badger1679666666]

I just read this thread from page 25 to the end.

 

:lol:

 

Absolutely fantastic entertainment. Urlacher is a BEAST. That is all.

[CubmanPi]

I just read this thread from page 25 to the end.

 

:lol:

 

Absolutely fantastic entertainment. Urlacher is a BEAST. That is all.

I'm impressed, that's way more than I would have been able to stomach. Once was enough for the first three quarters of this game.

[Brian]

It'll take an hour or two before it's up, but highlights will be up here.

 

the video is up!

[Jazz]

I think I'm going to adopt the Bears as my 2nd favorite team. They are a fun team to watch now-a-days.

[Balsa]

I'm going to quit watching at the half. I hope that I miss an amazing comeback.

=D>

[jaydee]

anyone know where i can find audio clips from chicago radio/

[CubmanPi]

Normally this long after a win, the thread for the next game is already up. Is it going to wait until after next week's games are done, or is it just bad juju to start one so soon after sucking so bad?

[Balsa]

You gonna set one up for the bye week? :lol:

[CubmanPi]

You gonna set one up for the bye week? :lol:

If tonight's game was another yawner/blowout, then maybe. But now that the Bears obviously are in desperate need of a bye-week, we can let one slide. I was more asking about a game thread two weeks in advance. Hey, leave me alone... this whole idea of following a competent and fun to watch team is really new. I still don't know how to handle the excitement.

[CaliforniaRaisin]

Normally this long after a win, the thread for the next game is already up. Is it going to wait until after next week's games are done, or is it just bad juju to start one so soon after sucking so bad?

 

It'll be up in a few minutes.

 

The NFL Network will re-broadcast the game on Thursday at 7 pm CT.

 

My goodness, the ABC crew was biased in favor of Leinart. How sickening.

[UMFan83]

You want to know my story of the game? I feel a little ashamed telling it because I pretty much gave up on the team.

 

I was at the Cubby Bear watching the game, dejected throughout, screaming at the TV. It was bad. I left after the 3rd Grossman INT (the one that was returned for a TD, then reversed). I left knowing that it would likely be reversed, but also KNOWING that it was done with.

 

As I was about 5 minutes into my 15 minute walk home, I checked the score of the game on my cell phone. That is where I learned of Grossman's 4th INT. By that point, I was calculating his pathetic comp. % on my cell phone. Bad times.

 

I got home and decided that I needed to clear my head and drive around the neighborhood listening to the end of the game. I got in my car and heard Joniak recapping the game score by score, expecting to hear him stop when he got to 23-10 Cardinals. It was at this point that I learned of the Tillman fumble return. I did get a bit excited, but was still in doubt that they would have enough time for a Grossman led TD drive.

 

So 4th down comes, and I decide to turn around, I gotta watch the end of this one at home. So I turn around in the Jewel parking lot on Southport and Waveland, and as I am making a left onto Waveland, I hear Hester's punt return. I spend the next 3 minutes screaming at the top of my lungs (to myself mind you, no one else was with me) and flying over the many speed bumps and rolling past the many stop signs going west on Waveland. I get home and gleefully watch Rackers FG to wide left with my roommates.

 

I am a little disapointed that I was not there to watch the end of the game at the bar, but despite my giving up on the football team that I hold dearest to my heart momentarily in a period of irrationalness, I think my game experience was unique and exciting.

[BigSlick]

I watched with basically my whole dorm in our lounge. 4 times I screamed my head off (The 2 fumbles for Td's, the Hester punt and the kick wide left)

 

When Hester returned the kick, I ripped my shirt off and ran out of the building into the rain.

 

It was an experience.

[ChiCubsFan]

I'd tell my story...but I don't think it's allowed on a family site like NSBB.

[sweetpeteman]

This game makes me think that this is going to be a magical year. Stuff like this just doesn't happen if it isn't.

[cl smooth]

You want to know my story of the game? I feel a little ashamed telling it because I pretty much gave up on the team.

 

i feel you. i turned the game off with 6 minutes left in the 4th quarter after the cardinals apparantly ran back an interception for a touchdown, which made it 29-10. i wake up, see an email in my inbox telling me HOW DID THE BEARS PULL IT OUT OF THEIR BUTT (butt was not used, btw) and proceeded to give myself the bitter beer face and ran to espn.com to check the scores. i felt like crying...did the 2001 bears regular season not teach me a thing?!

 

as god as my witness...never again will i turn off a bears game early. NEVER!

[UK1679666180]

I'm happy with the win, if they play like that the rest of the year, they'll go 6-10.

 

Green was right, AZ gave that game away. It doesn't take away the defense's ability to create and produce from turnovers as well as how solid special teams played, but they played terrible.

 

I think I developed a dislike for Leinhart based on last night's broadcast, he's also headed to the HoF.

[Mark Priors Calves]

I have no idea what to say. I've never see a game quite like last night's. Grossman absolutely killed the Bears with his overagressive, back foot throwing, not checking down passes. Hopefully, Thomas Jones is quickly losing his starting spot. Benson is definitely an unknown commodity but I'm sick of Jones dances and side stepping when he needs to pick up 2 yards on and 3rd and 2.

 

I have also never seen a defensive player completely dominate like Brian Urlacher did in the 4th quarter. Simply amazing. I would have been much more satisfied with the defense's performance had they not let Leinart move the ball into field goal range with relative ease on the last drive.

 

The 1st half tackling was terrible and Lance Briggs played poorly until he stepped it up in the 4th quarter. I'm concerned about the Mike Brown foot injury. There's a huge step down by having Todd Johnson in at SS. Hopefully in two weeks, Chris Harris is back at 100% or close to it and move him into the safety spots along with Manning.

 

It sounds like Ricky Manning will be heading to New York to meet with the NFL about his disciplinary issues, hopefully a suspension isn't in order, otherwise the secondary could be pretty shallow against the 49ers.

 

A win is a win, and I'll take it but please don't make it so ugly for the first 3 quarters in the future.

[Derwood]

I have a different take on the announcers and Leinart.

 

The kid played GREAT for a rookie in his second game (against the best defense in the league). No picks, always looked poised, completed over 50% of his passes. This loss was NOT his fault. I think their take was "this would be a great win for a rookie who has had to prove himself again after being awesome in college."

 

Plus, when a 1-4 team is beating the snot out of a 5-0 team, you expect the announcers to make a big deal out of it. On the other hand, Kornheiser kept saying how bad this would be if Arizona lost. I didn't see the commentary as biased at all.

 

If Leinart had coughed up 6 turnovers while Grossman was playing well, I expect that commentary would have been different.

[goonys evil twin]

Brutal.

 

Hey Ron Turner, call a run sometime in the first half next time. Maybe more than one. Rex, you better study the next two weeks.