Week 18: Bears vs Lions at 3:25 on FOX

[bukie]

If the Bears score any first half points next week, it'll be the best first half performance against the Packers this year.

[CubinNY]

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[Wilson A2000]

CJ might be out, but the Bears look to be pretty healthy. I’m assuming Rome and Ozzy will be back and if they can get Kyler back they’d have to be the healthiest team around.

[Brian707]

I think Bears Packers will be Sunday night 

[minnesotacubsfan]

27 minutes ago, Wilson A2000 said:

The Bears have the Packers in the playoffs next week for their 3rd meeting against them all-time

Ben said he enjoyed beating The Flower twice a year....

[gflore34]

27 minutes ago, bukie said:

If the Bears score any first half points next week, it'll be the best first half performance against the Packers this year.

Eventually they're going to put together a full game vs. the Packers might as well be next week.

[gflore34]

Don't know what network or the announcers for the Bears game next week.  My only hope is it's not NBC/Tricio & Collinsworth, losing to the Packers would be bad enough.  Losing to the Packers while listening to that horsefeathers hillbilly cream in his paints over the Packers would be worse.

[UMFan83]

7 minutes ago, gflore34 said:

Don't know what network or the announcers for the Bears game next week.  My only hope is it's not NBC/Tricio & Collinsworth, losing to the Packers would be bad enough.  Losing to the Packers while listening to that horsefeathers hillbilly cream in his paints over the Packers would be worse.

My prediction based on nothing is the late afternoon Sunday game. It won’t be the MNF game (i think espn gets lower priority for the WC game), it won’t be Saturday afternoon (reserved for Texans/the crappiest matchup) and it probably won’t be Sunday at noon given the high profile matchup. So either Saturday night, Sunday late afternoon or Sunday night. 

[Derwood]

Last Bears QB to win a playoff game was Jay Cutler

[bukie]

5 minutes ago, UMFan83 said:

My prediction based on nothing is the late afternoon Sunday game. It won’t be the MNF game (i think espn gets lower priority for the WC game), it won’t be Saturday afternoon (reserved for Texans/the crappiest matchup) and it probably won’t be Sunday at noon given the high profile matchup. So either Saturday night, Sunday late afternoon or Sunday night. 

I'm about 90% sure the game will be a primetime game, Bears-Packers 3 with the way the first two games went?

70% SNF, 15% Saturday night, 5% Monday night.

[Brian707]

Im almost certain MNF always involves a 4 vs 5 matchup. Since even if the lower seed wins it doesn't affect matchups in the next round 

 

I was thinking SNF but also could see Fox wanting Packers vs Bears in the late afternoon window Sunday 

Edited January 5 by Brian707

[Wilson A2000]

Early on in the season Ben said he wanted them to be playing their best ball late in the year. That certainly isn’t happening lately. 

[bukie]

 

[NorthsideAvenger]

Packers swept the Lions. Lions swept the Bears. The Bears win 2 of 3 from the Packers?

I'm going to say yes. 

[Soul]

37 minutes ago, Wilson A2000 said:

Early on in the season Ben said he wanted them to be playing their best ball late in the year. That certainly isn’t happening lately. 

I count 3 games where they played good football throughout.  Saints, Eagles, Browns.

I’ve enjoyed the eff out of this year but BJ &crew have a lot of work to do.  I’m sure he would agree with that too.

[minnesotacubsfan]

25 minutes ago, Soul said:

I count 3 games where they played good football throughout.  Saints, Eagles, Browns.

I’ve enjoyed the eff out of this year but BJ &crew have a lot of work to do.  I’m sure he would agree with that too.

yup. on one hand its early in their run, so lots of hope

 

otoh, you never know what next year will bring. God I hope they get on the Packers early and stay up the whole game. run them out of the state

 

[minnesotacubsfan]

its Saturday night 8 ET Primevideo 

 

wtf

 

 

Edited January 5 by minnesotacubsfan

[Wilson A2000]

1 minute ago, minnesotacubsfan said:

its Saturday night 8 ET Primevideo 

 

wtf

 

 

I can’t believe Prime gets a playoff game

[Brian707]

Well surprised its on prime but it will be on a local station in Chicago and Cheese land 

[bukie]

On the plus side, the Bears are 1-0 on Saturdays at home in prime time against the Packers this year.

[gflore34]

Two things: 1. Get started on offense earlier 2. Don't trust this defense, I don't care the situation, this defense is never going to stop anyone. On several occasions Ben has shown way too much trust in them, it has to stop. Maybe, next season he can trust it.

[Wilson A2000]

Ben didn’t have the offense go for it on 4th and 5 because “We had three timeouts and felt like we'd get the ball back.” Uh, what? You are trusting your bottom-5 defense over your top-5 offense? Ben just has some really questionable late decision-making.

-Trying to kick it deep it deep against the Vikings with Santos when he didn’t have the leg for it

-Second-to-last play through Kmet’s legs against the Packers

-Not getting the play call in to Caleb in enough time against the Niners which is why they were in disarray plus taking too much time over the last 30-45 seconds

Edited January 5 by Wilson A2000

[gflore34]

2 minutes ago, Wilson A2000 said:

Ben didn’t have the offense go for it on 4th and 5 because “We had three timeouts and felt like we'd get the ball back.” Uh, what? You are trusting your bottom-5 defense over your top-5 offense? Ben just has some really questionable late decision-making.

-Trying to kick it deep it deep against the Vikings with Santos when he didn’t have the leg for it

-Second-to-last play through Kmet’s legs against the Packers

-Not getting the play call in to Caleb in enough time against the Niners which is why they were in disarray plus taking too much time over the last 30-45 seconds

I was thinking along the same lines, part of a learning curve.  When all is said and done I've no doubt Ben will be amongst the best Bears HC of all time.

Edited January 5 by gflore34

[bukie]

2 minutes ago, gflore34 said:

I was thinking along the same lines, part of a learning curve.  When all is said and done I've no doubt Ben will be amongst the best Bears HC of all time.

The Bears are 7-4 in one score games this year, Cherry picking just the negative is what Wilson does.

[Wilson A2000]

1 minute ago, bukie said:

The Bears are 7-4 in one score games this year, Cherry picking just the negative is what Wilson does.

 

5 minutes ago, gflore34 said:

I was thinking along the same lines, part of a learning curve.  When all is said and done I've no doubt Ben will be amongst the best Bears HC of all time.

I hope so and Ben obviously has this team way ahead of schedule, but these are pretty egregious errors. Ben said he played to win today before the game, but he must have been the only person in Soldier Field who trusted his defense more than his offense. It was a terrible decision and the bad decisions are becoming far too prevalent.