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Nice stats, but seriously. Watch the man play. He's fantastic. He does just about everything well. Even if there was a share of Rodgers mistakes in those games, I would still say he's heading towards being one of the absolute best, if not at that top level already. He's in his 3rd year as starter. His first two seasons have both been 4,000+ yards, 60%+, Great TD/INT ratio campaigns. There's just no way he deserves to be mentioned as a problem the Packers have, or even close. Look almost anywhere else first.

I have watched more Vikings fb the last couple of weeks then I would usually want to. The one question that keeps coming to my mind is Would their backup QB be any worse? I cant imagine he would and they would be giving a younger guy more reps to learn with. Now, yeah. But I'm pretty sure the thought is that Favre will round back into form, at least to a degree. And when/if he does it will be better than the backup.

And nothing you can do with the personnel until the offseason, for the most part. And even in the offseason, not likely to have success with Angelo making the decisions. This does, indeed, suck.

It does look like a 9 win ballclub might win the North.

Thanks. I was actually wondering yesterday how the Bears OLine this year measured up against that historically bad Texans line. Looks like it's pretty close. Historically bad OLine play. Not exactly a feather in the cap of the Lovie/Angelo era.

He's not blaming the coach with no reasoning. It makes sense that when a team has a brutally miserable record in close games that reflects on the coach. Obviously the players have to play, but when you are talking about a close game its things like which team executes better, which play calling is better, who makes the least mistakes, who puts the right personel in there, that make the difference. Most of those are things that the coach has a big hand in. I don't watch enough of the Packers to know if McCarthy really is a big issue, but with a miserable record like that, I'd immediately look towards the coach upon reading that. I didn't have any idea the Pack was so terrible in close games. There's probably shared blame for it, but ultimately it's MM who will be held accountable if it continues. The Packers have now lost as many games in 6 weeks of play that many thought they would lose all year. And the upcoming schedule for them isn't really all that easy: they've got MIN twice, Dallas, NYJ, and ATL before they get another breather against DET. So something needs to change for them and change quickly. Kind of like the Bears. If I'm a Minny fan I'm pretty hopeful right now. It makes it easier seeing the two teams ahead of you laying eggs. The NFC North is an exercise in mediocrity this year.

That makes it sound like nothing. If he really has lost all that money the Cubs paid him, I'd characterize it more in the bombastically catastrophic bucket, rather than "hey man, just a few little errors on my part" At some point he had to have at least a few million in net earnings, right? Even after agent fees, taxes, etc? That's a lot of money to lose, if he has indeed lost it. Anyhow, I wouldn't want anything to do with that bat, and any northside bar that plops it up on the wall for all to see loses my business for sure (or never gets it in the first place). That's a piece of memorabilia that should be sought out by our enemies only.

Not necessarily. Keeping Hendry could mean Ricketts thinks the cost of firing him doesn't outweigh the benefits right now. Not really. He's only signed through 2012 and in sports people are regularly canned with time remaining in their contracts. Additionally, the decisions that Hendry makes now will affect the team further into the future. Any rational owner would fire a guy if he didn't want him to be the GM. Ricketts has not fired Jim Hendry and that means he wants him to be the GM. Yeah, I think Ricketts just likes Hendry. Certainly there's much that we don't see behind the scenes and I could be wrong, but that's my best read on the situation. People's opinions are fickle though, especially in sports. The whole thing could flip on a dime.

He varied between passes that weren't close to anything, throwing to receivers that had gone in different directions, good passes, and a few badly overthrown long bombs. Yeah, it was a mixed bag. There was some uncharacteristic (I thought) missed throws, but he did do some good things while wading through unblocked defenders. It looked like he didn't suffer another concussion - BONUS! :good: That's what we've come to with this OLine. QB made it through without a hospital trip. Round of drinks on me.

Don't know. They might not come at all.

It just shows how much of a guessing game the NFL is. People see one or two wins they weren't expecting, and they just flip their entire opinion of a team completely. Plus most of the national guys -- they aren't watching these teams closely. They're taking a couple tid bits here & there and making a whole buch of quick conclusions based on it.

This is the kind of confused, lackluster, unprofessional effort I expected to see more of, to be honest. Heading into the season I thought we'd lose games by just not being able to be a cohesive football team. A few early wins and fans & media tend to forget what we were seeing in training camp & preseason. But that stuff just doesn't go away magically. It's still here, and the Seahawks are feasting on our incompetencies. And now we kill our own plays too. There's an INT too -- but I think he's out of bounds.

Terrible game.

I didn't want to say it before because it was early, but I don't see how we win this game now. Just not getting the results from play to play that we would need to produce a win. We're getting beat in some way, shape, or form on most plays, both offensively and defensively. Simple math dictates: = loss. Plus we aren't getting the turnovers we'd need to flip this thing around. We're just being ground into the turf by the Seahawks.

Count your blessings. We went from possibly going down 21 - 10 or 17 - 10 to driving the field and making it a one point game. This game has certainly not shaped up to be anything like what I thought though. We aren't making Seattle look like the horrible road team everyone was talking about this week, that's for sure.

OK, I know everyone wants a big TD here but a turnover down here would be horrible.

I hate to nitpick every detail, but the Bears don't really have a "go to guy," Brian. You don't have to follow the Bears every week to know that.

It's close enough that I wouldn't say that. He got a lot of yardage. I meant "wasted" = they are going to lose.

Because that's when they are forced to.

That's a wasted challenge, from what I could see.

If you want to know why Peppers has always been criticized for inconsistent performance, this kind of effort is the reason. Knox!

They're going to double the point total I thought they'd get before halftime. This game's got me considering the other errands I could get done today instead of engaging in Bear-emotional-self-mutilation.

Note how we couldn't dig out of the hole, and they flip field position back in their favor on just one drive. ....and they continue to drive. This ain't lookin' good gents. We've got no answers today.

Today's he's been godawful bad.

dude, what storm are you talking about? THEY'RE WINNING. Quit saying dumb ass stuff, jesus.