Wild Card Week: Bears vs Packers Saturday 7pm on Prime

[Banedon]

Packers radio call of the end.

 

 

 

[UMFan83]

Random thought I had: with the Bears finishing the regular season with 3 of their last 4 at home, they will be playing their 5th home game in the past 6 weeks next weekend.  Has that ever happened before?

[Thurman Merman]

Who wants to see those Packers YouTubers melting down for the second time? 

 

[Soul]

36 minutes ago, Banedon said:

Packers radio call of the end.

 

 

 

Pretty good call TBH.

[UK]

4 hours ago, raw said:

Nahshon? I'm letting him walk too. I think he'll get more than I'd be willing to pay him. Plus, he's been cooked pretty regularly when not getting turnovers. Probably going to have to add a CB at some point though. With no Nahshon, you'd have a CB room of Stevenson, Johnson, Gordon, Terell Smith and Zah Frazier who have combined to play 26 out of 90 games (5 of them, 18 games possible games each). 

Nope. Darnell Wright. There's going to be a team that overpays for N. Wright and I hope it's not the Bears. His ability to create to turnovers is not as sustainable as his inability to cover.

[Soul]

8 minutes ago, UK said:

Nope. Darnell Wright. There's going to be a team that overpays for N. Wright and I hope it's not the Bears. His ability to create to turnovers is not as sustainable as his inability to cover.

He’s a good story but I agree.

[Banedon]

18 minutes ago, Soul said:

Pretty good call TBH.

Ehhhh.  Larivee's partner sounds like he was let out of the assisted living center for an extra late night, and Larivee himself is doing things like calling a missed FG "incomplete".

[bukie]

QB wins are a pointless stat, but it's still kinda fun to see that Caleb now has 3 wins against the Packers, when the previous 15 years of QBs accumulated a grand total of 3 wins against the Packers.

[minnesotacubsfan]

10 minutes ago, bukie said:

QB wins are a pointless stat, but it's still kinda fun to see that Caleb now has 3 wins against the Packers, when the previous 15 years of QBs accumulated a grand total of 3 wins against the Packers.

Oh I think that stat matters as a pretty good indication of the QB level of play

williams is insane

[Brian707]

It is Sunday.  Not announced if its at 2pm or 530pm

[Soul]

The whining up here in Wisconsin.  My goodness.  After 3 decades of having their way they lose a couple big games and turn into pouty children.

[bukie]

7 minutes ago, Brian707 said:

It is Sunday.  Not announced if its at 2pm or 530pm

I'd guess it'll be the 5:30 pm game, since LA is the only west coast team playing on the day.

[Irrelevant Dude]

It better be the late game or else I'll be stuck at my son's baseball camp.

[NorthsideAvenger]

nm

Edited January 12 by NorthsideAvenger

[BigbadB]

7 hours ago, Banedon said:

Ehhhh.  Larivee's partner sounds like he was let out of the assisted living center for an extra late night, and Larivee himself is doing things like calling a missed FG "incomplete".

I had to stare at "incomplete" for awhile. Haven't heard that term for a missed field goal in a long time, but I think that was the standard term for a missed field goal many moons ago.

[Banedon]

National football sports talking heads do not know how to analyze the Bears...and it's understandable.  Like, there's a lot of "was this a great Bears comeback or a Packers collapse" and...obviously it's both, and also obviously, it's just a fun discussion topic to get eyeballs...but the idea that it was just sorta gifted to the Bears is so silly to me.  This is the 7th time this year they've done this!  At some point you have to call a spade a spade and just admit that this thing that nobody thinks is sustainable...sorta is for the Bears.  They are just really, really good at this.  Will they always pull it off?  Obviously not.  They couldn't against the 49ers or the Lions for one reason or another.  But it's a defining trait of this team at this point.

[Brian707]

Agreed. But I wouldn't mind a never a doubt victory once in awhile.  Maybe this weekend 

[Banedon]

1 minute ago, Brian707 said:

Agreed. But I wouldn't mind a never a doubt victory once in awhile.  Maybe this weekend 

Of course!  But...I think you should probably not expect those this season at this point.  Not many "never in doubt" opponents in the playoffs.

[raw]

17 minutes ago, Banedon said:

National football sports talking heads do not know how to analyze the Bears...and it's understandable.  Like, there's a lot of "was this a great Bears comeback or a Packers collapse" and...obviously it's both, and also obviously, it's just a fun discussion topic to get eyeballs...but the idea that it was just sorta gifted to the Bears is so silly to me.  This is the 7th time this year they've done this!  At some point you have to call a spade a spade and just admit that this thing that nobody thinks is sustainable...sorta is for the Bears.  They are just really, really good at this.  Will they always pull it off?  Obviously not.  They couldn't against the 49ers or the Lions for one reason or another.  But it's a defining trait of this team at this point.

The last Caleb throw has either won or lost 11 games this season. 

[Soul]

52 minutes ago, Banedon said:

National football sports talking heads do not know how to analyze the Bears...and it's understandable.  Like, there's a lot of "was this a great Bears comeback or a Packers collapse" and...obviously it's both, and also obviously, it's just a fun discussion topic to get eyeballs...but the idea that it was just sorta gifted to the Bears is so silly to me.  This is the 7th time this year they've done this!  At some point you have to call a spade a spade and just admit that this thing that nobody thinks is sustainable...sorta is for the Bears.  They are just really, really good at this.  Will they always pull it off?  Obviously not.  They couldn't against the 49ers or the Lions for one reason or another.  But it's a defining trait of this team at this point.

I mean didn't the Chiefs do this all the way to a Super Bowl championship?

Caleb is in no way accomplished enough to be compared to Mahomes....yet.  But just in terms of the sustainability of comebacks, I feel like those can be an integral part of a team's long term success provided it speaks to the talent, especially at the quarterback position.

We will see.  I don't want to completely discount the notion that it's not sustainable because we haven't yet seen it sustained for long enough.  But a lot of these arguments amount to "X team lost because they didn't play good enough to win."  It's just that the person making the argument isn't accepting that.  It's the luck argument but put into different terms.

Saturday the Packers:  1) lost the 2nd half decidedly in multiple facets of the game, 2) were fooled on defense by a number of well-adjusted Ben Johnson calls that built on the 1st half, 3) missed field goals/XP because they have a kicker who isn't very good, 4) generated very little pass rush because they lost their best pass rusher to injury and injuries are something every team deals with, and 5) couldn't stop the QB who has authored the most 4th quarter jaw-dropping comebacks in the league this year.

[mul21]

18 hours ago, NorthsideAvenger said:

I keep thinking about that one Caleb throw. 

The level of awe from guys like Randy Moss, Teddy Bruschi, and Alex Smith on the pregame shows Sunday over that throw was crazy.  It gets more amazing every time I watch it.  Moving left, feet off the ground, Rome is like at the hash mark when he lets it go, and he drops it into the only spot it could go on a 4th down that probably ends the game if he misses.  Absolutely incredible.

[minnesotacubsfan]

1 hour ago, Banedon said:

National football sports talking heads do not know how to analyze the Bears...and it's understandable.  Like, there's a lot of "was this a great Bears comeback or a Packers collapse" and...obviously it's both, and also obviously, it's just a fun discussion topic to get eyeballs...but the idea that it was just sorta gifted to the Bears is so silly to me.  This is the 7th time this year they've done this!  At some point you have to call a spade a spade and just admit that this thing that nobody thinks is sustainable...sorta is for the Bears.  They are just really, really good at this.  Will they always pull it off?  Obviously not.  They couldn't against the 49ers or the Lions for one reason or another.  But it's a defining trait of this team at this point.

The whole “comebacks aren’t sustainable” misses the underlying truth: you play football for 60 mins at a minimum and the Bears are excellent at doing that. They just don’t give up

[Derwood]

Feels like Allen is good at making halftime adjustments but is lousy about making real-time adjustments. If/when the defensive gameplan isn't working early, you're going to keep getting the same not-working stuff until halftime

[Soul]

40 minutes ago, mul21 said:

The level of awe from guys like Randy Moss, Teddy Bruschi, and Alex Smith on the pregame shows Sunday over that throw was crazy.  It gets more amazing every time I watch it.  Moving left, feet off the ground, Rome is like at the hash mark when he lets it go, and he drops it into the only spot it could go on a 4th down that probably ends the game if he misses.  Absolutely incredible.

That’s all part of the Green Bay collapse, the Bears “not doing s***”

[Banedon]

Panicking Bears Fans Jamboree:
 

Jump to 12:30 if it doesn't take you there correctly.