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Speaking of Rose, going into the 4th, he's 3 rebounds and 1 assist short of his first career triple double. He'll have probably 7-8 minutes left to get those, unless the Bulls keep the 20 point margin going in his absence.

Whats up with Roses shooting? 6-16 today. Every time I look at a box score I feel liek hes shooting under 50%. And then randomly he'll have a 10-16 game, and then 5 more games of subpar shooting.

Cutler was actually recruited as a safety out of high school. He went to Vandy because the HC at the time (promised he could play QB. He's always been an athletic QB. i know that ron turner could have had him if he wanted. but seriously, cutler was a big-hit safety, a mean, cheap-shotting missile who just happened to be able to throw the ball. he also returned kicks for his high school team. Don't forget in HS, he caught the game winning touchdown pass in the state championship game on a trick play. The guys an athlete.

Sarcastic? He made 3-4 of them in the first half.

I'm assuming the outfield prospect is harper right?

So the rotation is looking like (based on how its set up for opening day) Zambrano Dempster Garza Wells Cashner/Silva (who am I kidding probably Silva)

Ryan Grant is handling being out of the spotlight due to injury a tad worse than Urlacher did last year:

If anyone cares, I've been listening to the same Seattle show that was ripping relentlessly on the Bears the other day. Following the blowout they are.....still relentlessly ripping on the Bears. The consensus is "Jay Cutler should have thrown 5 INTs.....the Seahawks would have been back in the game and probably won if Babeneaux caught that ball thrown to him" One of his biggest points is that the Seahawks didnt come to play because it was a 10am game, his proof if the fact that "JAY FING CUTLER WAS JUKING DEFENDERS AND LOOKING LIKE VICK. HE IS A HORRIBLE RUNNING QB AND SOMEHOW HES DODGING SEAHAWKS AND BREAKNIG TACKLES." He has no idea that Cutler has been a pretty shifty running QB all year and it surprised no Bears fans. But since he's an ignorant homer, he thinks its a sign that the Seahawks didnt come to play because of a 10am start time or something. What makes me laugh though is that this guy is originally from Boston and his favorite team ahead of the Seahawks is the Pats. He had a miserable weekend. I love it. Here is an article he wrote after the game. I want to point out that in this article, he lists "MAYBE THEY WERE LOOKING AHEAD TO THE PACKERS" as one of the reasons the Seahawks lost the game.

that pisses me off but whatever, let them think that. I'm to the point where I don't think the Bears will get respect unless they win the Super Bowl. Or even then, I'm not sure how much respect we will get, especially if we play the Jets or something. There will always be people that say how lucky we got to even get in the playoffs, then we only had to play 1-2 good teams (the Packers and maybe the Jets) to win the Super Bowl. We lucked into playing the Seahawks, and then we lucked into not having to play the team that beat us by 30 points on our home field in the Super Bowl. But at that point I won't care because we're Super Bowl champs.

You must have missed the Wildcat plays You're right. He should definitely be caned. Why is it either he gets a headcoach job or he gets fired? He's a smart offensive coordinator that has his flaws but is in general a great offensive mind. That doesn't necessarily mean he should be a head coach.

For anyone that cares, Peter Carroll was on Seattle radio and picked the Packers next week.

No I find it awesome. It even better that Packers fans are so upset by it.

Hope we play well today without Noah and Boozer. Ugh.

Yeah I thought about that this morning. I think I am gonna try for just 1 ticket. This is one of those games where I don't care if I have to go by myself. And having better odds at getting 1 ticket is better to me than less odds at getting 2 tickets.

Call me crazy, but I don't think anyone actually believes that. But thanks for pointing that out. :) so people are arguing about it because... Because its tradition, and due to the obvious preferential treatment the Bears get on this board, due to sharing a city and a fanbase with the team this board was founded to discuss, us Bears fans prefer a Packer fan not start this thread. It's really not a big deal, but it doesn't make me want to bitch about it less. 7 days until game time and there's sure to be even more stupid topics to banter about before game time.

As a Bears fan... Reasons to feel confident: -As I pointed out early, for whatever reason the Bears defense has been able to have success against the Packers offense. The Packers havent scored more than 21 points against the Bears in their last 5 meetings. The 2 games this year, the Packers averaged 13.5 PPG. -The offensive line today wasn't even something the Bears won despite. The offensive line legitimately aided the Bears in their win. The real Bears offense was out there today, and the play calling led to putting the o-line in a position to be an asset. Not gonna be easy with Matthews and Co. coming to town, but if they can stick with what they are doing, they will be able to move the ball. -Cutler looked like a leader today. Played a great game and did some big things. -The game is at our home with our turf that we know the ins and outs of. Reasons to feel pessimistic: -The pass rush has suffered a bit the last few games. The Bears didn't really get any pressure against Seattle until the game was all but decided and they started rushing 6-7 guys at once. If they can't pressure Rodgers, it's gonna be a long game. -The Bears did not produce any turnovers today. It's probably a one off but it's weird that we played Seattle twice and didn't produce a single turnover in either game. If they can't put pressure on Rodgers, they sure as hell better find a way to produce turnovers. -Cutler had an excellent game, but he still made several really dumbfounding passes that were a result of either miscommunication, lack of accuracy, or just plain old dumb throws. All QBs make throws they regret or they misfire on, but we will need Cutler to really limit these throws next Sunday. He cannot throw the ball directly at an opponent on the 2 yard line next week. -Peppers needs to show up. I'm sure his presence had an effect on the game, but didn't really see him do much on the field. Overall, the Packers don't scare me at all. Not saying I don't respect them. They are a great team and we can obviously lose to them. But I'm not considering the Bears chances are any less than if we were playing Atlanta or Philly or whatever. This is a team we can, for whatever reason, play well against. In Week 16, I was a little scared when the Packers put up 40+ points against a good Giants D. How did the Bears respond? By holding the Packers to 10 points. Now the Packers have lit up another good team for 40+ points. Will the Bears respond in a similar way this time? I think so. Not ready to pick a winner yet, but I'm fairly confident that the game won't be decided until the last few minutes.

Call me crazy, but I don't think anyone actually believes that. But thanks for pointing that out. :)

He never starts it until the day after the game.

Bears have now played 7 straight playoff games without having to go on the road. Their last road playoff game was 1994 against the 49ers.

Considering the Bears for the most part made their offense extremely conservative the entire 2nd half, that's pretty bad.

It's a Packer thread. ;) Well then change this to conference championship game discussion and we'll start our standard Bears thread.

Jersey starts Bears threads, not Packer fans. He's started every game thread except 1-2. Getthing this off to a good start :)

For a franchise as proud as the Pats, they've had 3 rather embarrassing playoff losses in the last 4 seasons. The first was the Super Bowl that ruined their season. The next was last years collapse at home against the Ravens. And now there is tonight which is pretty embarrassing even though they weren't the ones initiating the trash talks.

Wow that the super bowl is gonna be one of these 4 matchups: Packers vs. Steelers Packers vs. Jets Bears vs. Steelers Bears vs. Jets I'd prefer the 4th one.

maybe he's sick of you being a big [expletive] I wish I knew the word that was censored. He hates me due to my lions bashing. Lots of people bash other teams on here but he's the only one that seems to take it personal.