Week 15: Bears/Vikings Part 2

[Wilson A2000]

Terrible call that led to a scoring TD. Absolute trash.

 

Defense is gassed from carrying the team year over year.

[minnesotacubsfan]

not having Johnson is hurting the D. so frustrtating

[UMFan83]

Honest question - when is the last time the bears scored 30+ points in 3 straight games before today?

 

Answered my own question - weeks 2-4 of the 2013 season

 

By the way, this is only the 3rd time in the last 25 seasons the Bears have scored 30+ points in 3 straight games. The other 2 times were 2013 and 2011. Before that you have to go back to 1995

[Wilson A2000]

Terrible terrible decision. No one was ever open. Can’t make that throw as an NFL QB.

[minnesotacubsfan]

that was terrible play calling to begin with, and bad throw to end it

[minnesotacubsfan]

the only time they threw was when it was obvious they would. I know Monty is having a day, but comon

[Wilson A2000]

Big stop. About time.

[minnesotacubsfan]

playing for the fg is a mistake here

[minnesotacubsfan]

horsefeathers

[Wilson A2000]

Nail biter, but a W. Mitch played well until that int. Offense picking up the defense for a change.

[Hairyducked Idiot]

I am 100% on board with Trubisky as bridge QB for 2021 now

[Wilson A2000]

44% playoff chances now?

[jersey cubs fan]

Yeah, same. At this point you've messed up your draft position badly enough that you might as well make the playoffs, even if you're the worst team there.

 

Make it as the 7th seed, Mitchy T leads us to an upset in the wild card round (over the Packers?), then has an absolutely terrible performance in a blowout loss in the second round. Maximum chaos.

 

That would certainly be chaos and would probably ensure Nagy and Pace are retained another year, and Mitch is given an incentive laden 'prove it' contract with the QB position not addressed.

 

But I agree that while it still makes more sense for the Bears to lose, at a certain point you have to just suck it up and root for some short term enjoyment.

Yeah man, it's tough to admit but sometimes we have to actually root for the teams we enjoy to win the games they are playing.

Sorry for your lack of loss

[Hairyducked Idiot]

So if the Eagles beat the Cardinals, the Bears will be holding a playoff spot, right?

 

It's unreal to me how much some personnel tweaks on the OL and taking the playcalling away from Nagy has changed the offense.

[Soul]

So if the Eagles beat the Cardinals, the Bears will be holding a playoff spot, right?

 

It's unreal to me how much some personnel tweaks on the OL and taking the playcalling away from Nagy has changed the offense.

Unreal, but that has to be it.

[Hairyducked Idiot]

So if the Eagles beat the Cardinals, the Bears will be holding a playoff spot, right?

 

It's unreal to me how much some personnel tweaks on the OL and taking the playcalling away from Nagy has changed the offense.

Unreal, but that has to be it.

 

According to reddit, Cardinals lose today, then next week Bears win plus Vikings and Cardinals lose = Bears clinch a week early.

[UMFan83]

 

That would certainly be chaos and would probably ensure Nagy and Pace are retained another year, and Mitch is given an incentive laden 'prove it' contract with the QB position not addressed.

 

But I agree that while it still makes more sense for the Bears to lose, at a certain point you have to just suck it up and root for some short term enjoyment.

Yeah man, it's tough to admit but sometimes we have to actually root for the teams we enjoy to win the games they are playing.

Sorry for your lack of loss

 

I said I was sucking it up, and suck it up I did

[UMFan83]

So if the Eagles beat the Cardinals, the Bears will be holding a playoff spot, right?

 

It's unreal to me how much some personnel tweaks on the OL and taking the playcalling away from Nagy has changed the offense.

Unreal, but that has to be it.

 

According to reddit, Cardinals lose today, then next week Bears win plus Vikings and Cardinals lose = Bears clinch a week early.

 

Sounds right per my OP. bears are 6-5 in conference. Losses the next 2 games for Arizona would have them at 5-6. And the bears win the common games tiebreaker so even if the bears lost week 17 they’d win the tiebreaker

[WrigleyField 22]

So if the Eagles beat the Cardinals, the Bears will be holding a playoff spot, right?

 

It's unreal to me how much some personnel tweaks on the OL and taking the playcalling away from Nagy has changed the offense.

Coward was such ass he just pulled the whole unit down with him.

 

But this version of the O is even better than the first couple of weeks.

[David]

So if the Eagles beat the Cardinals, the Bears will be holding a playoff spot, right?

 

It's unreal to me how much some personnel tweaks on the OL and taking the playcalling away from Nagy has changed the offense.

Coward was such ass he just pulled the whole unit down with him.

 

But this version of the O is even better than the first couple of weeks.

 

iirc minnesota's defense was hovering around the top 10 in DVOA too.

[ChiCubsFan]

What’s the scenario with a Cardinals win? Which they will, because the Eagles are crap.

[minnesotacubsfan]

What’s the scenario with a Cardinals win? Which they will, because the Eagles are crap.

 

if the Bears win out, the Cardinals have to win out. If they both lose a game, Cardinals are in

 

Bears are 1 game behind but have the tie breaker

[Soul]

I was going to say it’s already over but looks like the Eagles are at least going to put up a fight.

[Brian]

Eagles tie it 26-26 and then go for 2 and miss... what is the point of that?

 

edit- the only thing I can think of is to stop the other team for matching TDs going forward and going for 2 for the win, but I don't know I'd take the lead first before worrying about that scenario

[Brian]

Also for some reason the Jets are beating the Rams right now, so the Jags might be in the Trevor Lawrence sweepstakes next weekend with even more motivation to suck (not sure what the Jets/Jags 1 pick tie breaker is)