Game 12 - Seattle Seahawks @ BEARS - 12 PM - Louis on IR :(

[Guest]

team is donezo

[UMFan83]

This team needs to seriously get its [expletive] together or its not going to be making the playoffs.

Sure they will. They're just going to lose the first game they play.

 

I'm fairly concerned. 3 road games, and the only home game is against GB, and we're now 0-4 against good teams this year. I think we'll beat Arizona, but who knows if we can beat Minnesota in that dome, and well Detroit can go either way.

[kujay]

This is on Lovie and Tice with the stupid ass conservative calls in the second half.

[Magnetic Curses]

team is donezo

 

yeah, no way we win again

[sneakypower]

Lurking on Seahawks forum all week. What a whiny bunch.

underrated post

[Guest]

the game stalled when tice ran it 4 times in a row in the redzone, and then the bennet dropped turned it.

 

team is pretty mediocre

[USSoccer]

What a miserable ending to a game that had no business being competitive or close.

[Magnetic Curses]

we have lost a million straight games to the seahawks.

 

they just rolled wilson out all game and he either burned us with the pass or ran for a first down.

[UMFan83]

1-3 on the gauntlet that was going to tell us everything we needed to know about this team. I know I'm a negative dude in general, but I'm pretty down on the team after this one. I havent seen a team completely dominate our defense like that since...2 weeks ago. But before that, 2009. There is no excuse for giving up 177 yards of TD drives on the most 2 critical drives of the game. So many mistakes

[Soul]

8-4 team, I have to assume they make the playoffs. But look at all the injuries, and look at the downgrade of expectations on the defense with that 49ers game, and now this.

 

The offense is barely functional, with only Cutler's playmaking and Marshall providing excellence. A smattering of other contributions, but come on.

 

I think this is just a team that peaked early. They are past peak now.

[Magnetic Curses]

oh yeah, packers win so we're probably not in the playoffs either.

[Brian]

we don't deserve Cutler and Marshall

[Butterscup1679666578]

embarrassing performance by the D today

[USSoccer]

Maybe now people can get off the defense's nuts and realize that the only reason this team is remotely good is the guy half of the meatball's hate.

[Soul]

embarrassing performance by the D today

 

True, 17 points by an offense just isn't in any way acceptable either.

[Irrelevant Dude]

8-4 team, I have to assume they make the playoffs.

That is not a safe assumption.

[Sammy Sofa]

Man, David, look at all the craaaaaaaaaaaaaazy people. Aren't they craaaaaaaaaaaazy?

[Cubswin11]

When is the last time the Bears beat an actual good team (like .500 team or playoff team)?

[treebird]

Man, David, look at all the craaaaaaaaaaaaaazy people. Aren't they craaaaaaaaaaaazy?

 

obviously this game has no effect on the season either.

[Sammy Sofa]

Where's Squirtboy? He deserves some, too.

[UMFan83]

8-4 team, I have to assume they make the playoffs. But look at all the injuries, and look at the downgrade of expectations on the defense with that 49ers game, and now this.

 

The offense is barely functional, with only Cutler's playmaking and Marshall providing excellence. A smattering of other contributions, but come on.

 

I think this is just a team that peaked early. They are past peak now.

 

Well lets look at the playoffs...

 

TB is losing 7-0 to Denver right now, but lets say TB wins, because I'm a pessimist

 

5. Chicago 8-4

6. Seattle 7-5 (Bears lose tiebreaker)

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7. Tampa Bay 7-5

8. Minnesota 6-6

9. Washington/Dallas 6-6 (if win)

 

So if TB wins today, we're 1 game up on a playoff spot. Luckily the Bears have a safe edge in the tiebreaker by virtue of a 5-3 conference record vs. 3-5 for TB. Let's look at the schedules:

 

TB:

vs. Philly

@ NO

vs. STL

@ ATL

 

Normally that would be daunting, but Philly has pretty much giving up on their season. NO is close to that point, but its never easy winning in that dome and if the Saints win they'll still be somewhat alive. STL should be a probable win. And with Atlanta at 11-1 they will probably have HFA locked up before the last game. I can see TB going 3-1 with this schedule, maybe 2-2.

 

Bears:

@ Minnesota

vs. Green Bay

@ Arizona

@ Detroit

 

3 road games. That dome is always a very tough place to win, even when the Vikings are mediocre. This year the Vikings are 5-1 at home and 1-5 on the road. Very tough game, and honestly with all the injuries plus my negativity, I think thats a Vikings win. Then we have Green Bay. Haven't beat them the last 5 times we've played. We CAN win this game but I don't know if we will. More likely to be a loss than not. Lets say the Bears win against Arizona. Then it all comes down to @ Detroit for a playoff spot. If we win, we finish 10-6 with a 7-5 conference record. If we lose we finish 9-7.

 

So basically, what I've determined by being as negative as possible, if the Bears go 2-2, the Bucs would have to win out to get in over Chicago. If we go 1-3, its gonna be hard for the Bears to get in. And this isn't even considering the 6 loss teams.

[UMFan83]

When is the last time the Bears beat an actual good team (like .500 team or playoff team)?

 

A .500 team? Last week. a +500/playoff team? Week 10 of 2011 season against Detroit

[USSoccer]

Jennings injured shoulder, Urlacher injured hamstring.

 

Because you want a lumbering, once fast MLB to have another leg injury.

[UMFan83]

embarrassing performance by the D today

 

True, 17 points by an offense just isn't in any way acceptable either.

 

I thought the offense was fine honestly considering:

 

-We had 360 yards of total offense without touching the ball in OT

-Cutler wasn't sacked all day and rarely hit in the pocket

-We easily blew opportunities for a chipshot FG, and a TD (with Bennetts drop)

-We also potentially blew multiple drives by conservative playcalling, essentially 'giving up' on drives

-We played the 2nd half with are #1, 5 and 6 WRs being the only ones healthy

-We played without 3 starting OL players from an already terrible line

-We played with a gimpy clearly limited Forte

-Cutler played fantastic

 

I think the biggest concern is how bad the defense looked for the 2nd time in 3 weeks. Even when we got the stop, we got extremely fortunate in several instances such as Wilson overthrowing the TE at the goal line, and then missing him wide open the very next play, or the refs giving us the overturned touchdown pass to Edwards (it was not caught but it was very close and called a TD on the field), etc.

[UMFan83]

Dammit of course the 49ers lose. If we would have won we'd be in a bye spot right now.