NFC Championship (Bears fans)

[UMFan83]

It is a little funny how all season people complained about our luck with no injuries and facing 3rd string QBs, and then in the NFC title game we suffer an injury to our most important player and the Packers have to beat our 3rd string QB to get into the Super Bowl. Funny how that works out.

[Guest]

I think OMC is right about most people not knowing how an athlete can stand after a severe knee injury (we saw it in this thread too). If only he was writhing in pain, etc. Of course no football player needs to just stand to play; you have to plant, cut, run, etc.

 

The thing about him not helping the other QBs, not listening in on the coaches, not having a trainer look at him is ridiculous because we saw him do all 3 things on FOX. He even smiled for the first time all game 2 different times the Bears did something good.

 

We also aren't sure just how many plays Cutler tried to go on that injured knee. Or has it been confirmed which play caused the injury and that he didn't play at all after that?

 

As much as I love me some Jay Cutler, he has his bad games and whether it was the knee bothering him or the defense giving him fits, or the cold affecting his throwing arm, he was not accurate at all and I'm not so confident he was going to be able to lead us back in that game if something didn't change soon.

 

He definitely played some with the injury as he got hurt in the first half. It sounds like (and this is an educated guess) they were going to pull him at half time but he got 1 series to test it out in the 2nd half.

[SouthSideRyan]

If you're a professional athlete you have to avoid any contact with fans that doesn't involve them fawning over you at a bar. Sports fans are the dumbest people in the world, and football fans are probably the dumbest of all the sports. If you're listening to what these buffoons are saying on the radio or message boards or whatever, then you're a lost cause.

[SouthSideRyan]

It is a little funny how all season people complained about our luck with no injuries and facing 3rd string QBs, and then in the NFC title game we suffer an injury to our most important player and the Packers have to beat our 3rd string QB to get into the Super Bowl. Funny how that works out.

 

Not really funny ha ha

[Keener98]

Asante Samuel is a [expletive] moron. How many games did he miss this year due to injury?

 

Man shoot that [expletive] up with a needle. He ain't got to do much jus drop back and throw the ball.

 

I luv my QB @mikevick he has the heart of a lion. I guess others are scared of success.

[ConstableRabbit]

Didn't Mark Sanchez blame headset issues for his performance?

[shnsajax]

ESPN bottom-line just reported Cutler has torn MCL.

[shnsajax]

Asante Samuel is a [expletive] moron. How many games did he miss this year due to injury?

 

Man shoot that [expletive] up with a needle. He ain't got to do much jus drop back and throw the ball.

 

I luv my QB @mikevick he has the heart of a lion. I guess others are scared of success.

 

At least he didn't my QB has the killer instinct.

[Old Style]

ESPN bottom-line just reported Cutler has torn MCL.

Way to be on top of the breaking news.

 

:good:

[Guest]

Asante Samuel is a [expletive] moron. How many games did he miss this year due to injury?

 

Man shoot that [expletive] up with a needle. He ain't got to do much jus drop back and throw the ball.

 

I luv my QB @mikevick he has the heart of a lion. I guess others are scared of success.

 

At least he didn't my QB has the killer instinct.

Fights like a dog for a bone, man.

[scarey]

I can't wait to see all these douche bag NFL analysts that have been ripping Cutler with their foot in their mouths. Then again, they will probably either comment on how that's not enough of an injury or will just pretend they never said it.

[Brian]

I luv my QB, he won a playoff game this year.

[SouthSideRyan]

I luv my QB, he won a playoff game this year.

 

I luv my QB, he beat the crap out of Vick head 2 head.

[shnsajax]

ESPN bottom-line just reported Cutler has torn MCL.

Way to be on top of the breaking news.

 

:good:

 

Clearly I didn't read two pages back. Sorry, didn't realize your post was that important to you.

[dew1679666265]

No they don't.

 

That's the most popular way to classify an in-game injury. I pretty much always hear questionable or doubtful. When Maurkice Pouncey left the Steelers game and it was quite clear he wasn't coming back in (taken off on a cart and hobbling around on crutches) the Steelers announced he was questionable to return.

 

Why they do that I don't know, but it's the popular thing to do.

[Keener98]

Just in case anyone cares, Bears have a press conference at 1pm and ESPN is going to be showing it. Im sure won't be much but just a heads up

[Old Style]

ESPN bottom-line just reported Cutler has torn MCL.

Way to be on top of the breaking news.

 

:good:

 

Clearly I didn't read two pages back. Sorry, didn't realize your post was that important to you.

It does. We should have IRL fisticuffs at the Hooters on William D. Tate in Grapevine to settle the matter.

[UMFan83]

The more I look back on the game, the more I want to rip the coaching staff for some of the things they did. I'll try to put together a list of everything that bothered me and leave it for everyone else to pick apart/agree with.

 

1. I don't know if this is on coaching, but the defense did not look prepared on the first series. Not sure if it was just a matter of GBs staff outthinking the Bears staff and coming out with a better game plan to start, or if it was the Bears no executing, etc. It's hard to tell watching from the stands. But it was disturbing to see the receivers have such huge holes right in the middle of the field to stand there and wait for the ball to get to them. I thought the adjustments were good, and correct me if I'm wrong it seemed like the Bears went away from the Cover 2 for a bit and even showed some man coverage.

 

2. Some of the play calling early on was questionable. Down 7-0 backed up on your goal line on 3rd and 9 was an awful time to run a handoff up the middle for no gain. They basically said, f it, we're not taking a safety, you can have great field position. And that's what happened. Eventually the Packers scored because of that field position. It's the NFC title game, IMO you have to trust your line to block or its going to be a long day regardless. Drop Cutler back and let him try for the first down.

 

3. Punting from the 31 was odd as well. We really needed 3 points at the time. I also noticed McCarthy opted to punt around the 35 yard line 2-3 times in the game as well on the same side of the field, so maybe the coaches knew something about that end of the field that we didn't. But I too saw Gould (and Crosby) booting 50 yarders to that end of the field pregame and at halftime with no problem at all, so who the hell knows.

 

4. The end around at the end of the game was one of those plays that even if it had worked out, you are thinking to yourself 'thank God we survived that play call'. pre-timeout, I was thinking that a run play in this situation would probably work out, and when I saw Forte getting the handoff I was ready to praise Martz for the play call as the Packers obviously werent prepared to stop it. It's tough to know if he would have gotten a nice gain from it because the Packers D stopped playing immediately at the whistle, but it was pretty clear he was getting a first. When I saw the play at first, I figured that Martz called that handoff, and then didn't see people lining up right so called a timeout. Annoying and avoidable but at least he was calling the right play. And while I hated the play to Bennett from the start, I figured that Martz didn't want to go back to the handoff with the Packers already expecting it so he went with that. Still an awful play call but slightly more understandable than what really happened. If you didn't see, what happened was they called the end around to Bennett, Hanie was having issues with his speaker, couldnt understand the play call so audibled to that running play. When Martz saw that his play wasn't being run, he called the TO and switched back to the Bennett play. It enrages me that Martz thought that was the best play call in that situation. Has that play ever worked in the 3 years we've run it occasionally? No. You need 3 yards, you cannot afford to be stopped at the line or for a loss. That play would be ok if you were trying to gamble a little bit and can risk a possible stop at the LOS for the opportunity to get a huge gain. Because on a play like that, you are either gettnig a 1-2 yard gain, or you are catching the defense offguard and gettnig a 10+ yard run. Very rarely does there seem to be something other than that. So in the same play Martz wasted a TO and wasted a down, and all the momentum was gone at that point.

 

5. The biggest coaching decision was made several weeks ago and that was to play Todd Collins as the backup QB. I don't care what the hell you saw in practice when players are going at 85% of game speed. Todd Collins had one of the worst performances I've ever seen out of a QB against the worst team in the league this year. In the other game he played this year, he looked just as bad. Meanwhile, when Hanie came in for the Giants game, he was the only one of the 3 QBs to even move the ball against the Giants D. They say Collins was the backup because he had playoff experience and Martz didnt trust Hanie with such little experience. You know what, when you are 40 years old and have been playing in the league for 17 years, I could give a [expletive] what your experience is when you are short arming passes all over the field. Not one pass that Collins threw this year was one I would consider a "good" pass. There's no excuse for it. Screw you Lovie for giving Martz control over that decision. Screw you Martz for blindly looking past the obvious and sticking with the guy you begged Lovie to guarantee money to bring in, and screw you Collins for not just retiring when you realized you sucked (only half kidding).

 

There's more I'm sure I'm missing. You can't overlook the fact that the Packers ran all over our defense in the 1st half. That wasn't all on coaching. The play in the 2nd half was rather even, but the Packers looked like the better team in the first half. The coaches had an uphill battle to beat this team, so I'm not saying they were the sole reason we lost. But gosh it would be nice to praise a coaching staff for helping the team win. We don't get to do that enough.

[Soul]

Just in case anyone cares, Bears have a press conference at 1pm and ESPN is going to be showing it. Im sure won't be much but just a heads up

 

No doubt the banner under the video will read something like "Bears react to Cutler mess" or some such nonsense

 

Ugh.

 

Don't be surprised if Steven A Smith is there in the studio to "react" to the press conference, in the only way he knows how.

[shnsajax]

ESPN bottom-line just reported Cutler has torn MCL.

Way to be on top of the breaking news.

 

:good:

 

Clearly I didn't read two pages back. Sorry, didn't realize your post was that important to you.

It does. We should have IRL fisticuffs at the Hooters on William D. Tate in Grapevine to settle the matter.

 

Bone Daddy's!

[Soul]

So it's legit. And the worst part is, all the morons who diagnosed him through the TV won't be called to task for it in the slightest.

[Flames24Rulz]

Asante Samuel is a [expletive] moron. How many games did he miss this year due to injury?

 

Man shoot that [expletive] up with a needle. He ain't got to do much jus drop back and throw the ball.

 

I luv my QB @mikevick he has the heart of a lion. I guess others are scared of success.

 

At least he didn't my QB has the killer instinct.

 

Heart of a lion. The same "lion" that played in 11 games this year.

 

I don't really get why players around the league love Vick so much. He had a very good year, but people were saying he should have won the MVP even though they completely missed the fact that he only played in 11 games this season.

 

That [expletive] even pisses me off. I guess it's because I'm not much of a Vick fan, but the point remains.

[minnesotacubsfan]

yea, teary-eyed freak boy is on Cutlers crotch now

 

http://www.chicagobreakingsports.com/2011/01/roenick-says-cutler-sure-is-no-hockey-player.html

[Old Style]

ESPN bottom-line just reported Cutler has torn MCL.

Way to be on top of the breaking news.

 

:good:

 

Clearly I didn't read two pages back. Sorry, didn't realize your post was that important to you.

It does. We should have IRL fisticuffs at the Hooters on William D. Tate in Grapevine to settle the matter.

 

Bone Daddy's!

Better yet, let's each pick a waitress and have them jello wrestle to determine a winner.

[SouthSideRyan]

No they don't.

 

That's the most popular way to classify an in-game injury. I pretty much always hear questionable or doubtful. When Maurkice Pouncey left the Steelers game and it was quite clear he wasn't coming back in (taken off on a cart and hobbling around on crutches) the Steelers announced he was questionable to return.

 

Why they do that I don't know, but it's the popular thing to do.

 

Pouncey's a [expletive]