UMFan83

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

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) --------------- 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.

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

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.

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

If they score, thats 177 yards allowed on 2 consecutive critical defensive possessions

I want to cry. 8/15 on 3rd downs, 4/4 on this possession

Here comes the back breaking pass

Giving up 450 yards will do that to you

looks like best case we're gonna need to score at least 3. Worst case we don't get the ball

EVERY [expletive] 3RD DOWN

I HATE THIS [expletive] This isnt [expletive] college

Come on, make this damn stop. Seahawks are 5-12 on 3rd down today. Too high.

Tackling has been embarassingly bad today. Their scrub fullback gets maybe 5 extra yards from poor tackling

I'd rather decline that DOG and take 3rd and 10 over 2nd and 15

omg can we seriously stop them even once without them getting a 1st down?

Beginning to not like Russell Wilson very much

Good call. Except Seattle didnt help him out by squib kicking it and letting him start at the 40

Ugh, we lose the toss

Twice? Both in the 2006 NFC Divisional Round? I'm probably missing several

NEVER EVER DOUBT ROBBIE THE MAGNIFICENT

Little more nervous than usual with Robbie here. Hasn't been great lately

I LOVE BRANDON MARSHALL!!!!! GET READY ROBBIE!

Seriously, I want to know why we went so conservative at midfield with the game on the line? I know you trust your defense, but what the hell, get some [expletive] points

0-4 against +500 teams this year if we lose