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Not a push over, they played well yesterday. That said, if Rodgers continues to be Rodgers and the Monty / Michael duo keep the threat of the run game there, should be #4.

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Their defense played solid enough yesterday vs DET and were helped by some untimely turnovers.  Barkley looked ok too and Howard looks a little like E Elliott.  They could have some confidence coming out of that game and now getting Jeffery back but wow, there is no way we should lose next weekend.

Stafford injured the finger in the first quarter of Sunday's 20-17 win over Chicago when his right hand "clapped hands" with Chicago's Leonard Floyd on a play in which he also was called for intentional grounding.

Stafford went to the sideline after the drive, put a glove on his right hand and then started throwing with the glove. He played with it the rest of the game but said it affected his grip and the velocity on his throws.

This may be a big reason CHI was able to stay close.

I'll say this about the Bears, they play hard under John Fox and Vic Fangio.  They just don't have a whole lot of talent on that team right now, but they seem to maximize the little bit of talent they do have. 

Hungry5 posted:

Stafford injured the finger in the first quarter of Sunday's 20-17 win over Chicago when his right hand "clapped hands" with Chicago's Leonard Floyd on a play in which he also was called for intentional grounding.

Stafford went to the sideline after the drive, put a glove on his right hand and then started throwing with the glove. He played with it the rest of the game but said it affected his grip and the velocity on his throws.

This may be a big reason CHI was able to stay close.

That and the fact that Stafford threw an awful pick 6 in the middle of the 4th quarter which had nothing to do with his hand (just an awful read and decision from a veteran QB).

fightphoe93 posted:

I'll say this about the Bears, they play hard under John Fox and Vic Fangio.  They just don't have a whole lot of talent on that team right now, but they seem to maximize the little bit of talent they do have. 

Yes they sure do. They are very short in talent right now and Fox and Fangio do know how to coach.

My biggest worry (I always worry about this game) is that they will be coming off a big win against Seattle at home.  I worry about a let down.

Rob Demovsky ESPN Staff Writer 

Is Ty Montgomery the Packers' starting running back? "Well, Ty Montgomery is a running back," coach Mike McCarthy said. "I apologize for not making an announcement but he hasn't gone to a receiver meeting in months. … There's packages for everybody. We don't just plan for one guy to be featured at any position."

F U C K T H E B E A R S 

As the Packers/Bears rivalry historian here. I have posted this the last couple of years, and it needs to be posted again.  

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I feel it is my duty to remind all of you that it is the bears that were, are, and always will be our main rivals.  Period.  Full Stop.  Next Paragraph.  There is no discussion.  There is no debate.  There is no 2nd place.  

It most surely is not Detroit.  LOL  Detroit.  And regardless what some may have thought for a brief time, it is not the Vikings.  The Vikings are, at best, your annoying little brother.  They have moments.  But they are harmless, they are meaningless, they are losers. They are to be mocked, surely, but they are not the rivals of the Green Bay Packers, as their is no respect for them.  I think to be THE rivals, you need hate, but also a modicum of respect.  I hate everything Chicago Bears, but I can have a slight amount of respect for the franchise, their longevity, their part in the NFL, and honestly, without Halas helping save them, the Green Bay Packers don't exist.  

And, as such, it is the bears that should always, relentlessly, and continuously be hated above all else.  Green Bay could win 43 straight games against them.  We should still be filled with hate of 1000 burning white suns as they go for win 44 in a row.  Favre playing 2 years in Minnesota changed nothing.  Minnesota beating us earlier in the year changed nothing.  Detroit being in first place changed nothing.  Because the bears are stuck playing Matt Barkley changes nothing.  All Packer fans should have a special place in their cold dead black hearts for the bears.  There should be no pity.  There should be no empathy.  There should be no feelings.  F**k the bears previously.  F**k the bears today.  F**k the bears forever.  

 61-7.  Perry over Cumby.  Ditka. Their fans.  Kevin Butler and that freaking one bar helmet.  Their horrific fields.  Dan Hampton.  Steve McMichael. THEIR F**KING FANS.  McMahon wearing a bears jersey to the Whitehouse. Doug Plank.  Buddy Ryan.  DITKA!!!! Hub Arkush.  DID I MENTION THAT THEIR FANS ARE GARBAGE?  Doug Buffone.  Butkus. Coming back to you now, isn't it? 

 No pity.  No mercy.  F**k the bears.  

 With that, here's my favorite 6 wins over the bears. 

 1. NFCC game 1/23/11 21-14 win.  For pure importance it doesn't get bigger than this.  Literally it can't unless one of these two teams switches conferences.  Only 2nd playoff meeting of all time.  Winner goes to the Super Bowl.  I've never been so amped/nervous/demented about a game in my life.  Mainly because I'm fully confident my father would have died that day if they lost. To me, the culmination of the most satisfying season ever.  Beat Favre twice like a mule.  Beat the bears in week 17 to make the playoffs. Beat them in Chicago to go to SB.  It cannot get better than that year, and this was maybe the best win.  Packer fans will always be able to lord this game over bear fans.  

2. After Further Review 11/5/89 14-13 win.  I'm a sophomore at University of Illinois, surrounded by Bears fans in my dorm.  The emotions of that play go from elation to getting trash talked to doing the trash talking.  Ditka still pissed off to this day.  The asterisk.  Plus, at the time I really thought this was a resurgence of the Packers after years of hot garbage, as well as a win in a 3-18 stretch vs them.  

3. Taken by Chester Marcol! 9/7/80 12-6 win.  The glasses.  The facemask.  A guy named Chester.  Sudden Death.  Craziest ending ever.  I hope he still has that football.  One of my earliest and most indelible Packer memories as a 10 year old watching it with my Dad.  

4. The Monsoon game 10/31/94 33-6 win.  Torrential rain.  Throw back uniforms.  Favre "running" for that 36 yard TD.  Sayers and Butkus getting their jerseys retired at halftime in a driving rainstorm and then pour it on more in 2nd half.  I really thought we were up much bigger at half, but it was only 14-0.  Monday night game that introduced the nation to the new Green Bay Packers.  Cannot for the life of me find any video at all from that game.

5. Epic Beatdown 11/9/14  55-14 win.  I lived through 61-7.  I heard Dan friggin Jiggets talk about it on Chicago radio every 12 minutes.  I really wish that they would have kept the foot on the gas and gone for like 70.  it was there.  Could have gone for 70 and gone for AR getting 8 TDs.  I know, sportsmanship.  F**K THAT.  DAMMIT MCSTUPDIFACE!!!! 

6.  COBB!!!!! 12/29/13 33-28 win.  Maybe the 2nd most important game in terms of playoff impact of the series, and could easily be higher on this list.  Really fun back/forth game.  Winner wins the North.  Loser stays home.  Rodgers first game after coming back from collarbone, which he hurt vs Bears leading to a really tough year where we saw Flynn, Tolzien, and Seneca Wallace(!) start at QB.  Boykin's crazy fumble recovery TD. Forte killing them.  That amazing catch by Nelson on 4th and 1.  4th and 8 TD to wide open Cobb after Rodgers just missed getting killed by Peppers.   I was SCREAMING about Jordy getting murdered on that play and it wasn't called.  Thank god we don't have to relive that missed call.

Again.  F**k.  The.  bears.  ALWAYS.  Sweep the leg.  No mercy.

Since 1993, Packers are 35-13 vs them.  It's been a long time coming.  Should have gotten there last November.  GET THIS EVEN!  

GBFanForLife posted:

Rob Demovsky ESPN Staff Writer 

Is Ty Montgomery the Packers' starting running back? "Well, Ty Montgomery is a running back," coach Mike McCarthy said. "I apologize for not making an announcement but he hasn't gone to a receiver meeting in months. … There's packages for everybody. We don't just plan for one guy to be featured at any position."

As times goes on the less I like the local GB media. I'm sorry if any of you are here at X4, but I feel like they teeter between being far too easy and far too critical. When things are going wrong it's all the doom and gloom garbage and when things are going well it's puff pieces. I think it was Cohen who took a stab at some deeper reporting, with his hit piece on Letroy Guion, but even that was a failure. 

Rob Demovsky ESPN Staff Writer 

Mike McCarthy said he did not know whether QB Aaron Rodgers would be any more limited in practice this week because of the calf injury than he's been because of the hamstring injury the last two weeks. "I'll see Aaron in the quarterback meeting shortly, and we'll see how he's feeling today," McCarthy said.

Packers QB Aaron Rodgers just needs to be able to reset his feet – and not necessarily scramble – with his calf injury. "If you can't reset your feet, I don't know how you can perform," coach Mike McCarthy said. "But his ability to reset his feet was key. As long as he can do that, he'll be fine. The positive of him hurting his calf is we've been through it before."

On Jared Cook..

Jared Cook is expected to be fine after dropping out of Sunday's game against the Seahawks with a chest injury, according to a source. There's a good chance Cook will play this week against the Bears even after he sustained a lung contusion and did not return to the game. He was held out for precautionary reasons.

Playoff football the last 3 weeks. Much more playoff football to go. 1 week at a time but keep playing playoff football!

Packers are playing at another level right now.

Stay healthy!

Sweep the leg...NO MERCY! 

Plus I have a bet with a Bear fan on the sweep this year

EVEN this BITCH UP!!

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Davante Adams on pace for 78 catches for 1,104 yards and 11 TDs.

Quite likely the Packers in 2016 will have another duo at 1000 yards receiving and 10+ TDs in Jordy and Duhvante. Rather impressive for Adams.

Yet somebody bagged on Jordy in the game thread when he didn't make a catch---something about being paid "$10 million to make those catches."

Fans are such assholes.

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Blair Kiel posted:

Yet somebody bagged on Jordy in the game thread when he didn't make a catch---something about being paid "$10 million to make those catches."

Fans are such assholes.

Another ahole complained about dropping balls. 

Chicago weather forecasts are a crapshoot, last night they showed 12 on Sunday, the ABC7 website shows 6 in one spot and 13 in another. The only way to figure out the weather is to go outside.

One thing about the rivalry that will never be the same was getting to listen to Buffone and O'Bradovich after a Bears loss.  Those guys were just awesome as they pulled no punches in ripping the Bears and anything else they felt like ripping on after the game.

Those guys were from an era where the teams truly hated each other.  I don't think that type of hatred exists anymore nowadays, and maybe that's a good thing.  Most of these guys know guys from other teams, and with true free agency, many guys are swapping rivals like Peppers from Chicago to Green Bay so the true bonafide dislike between teams is somewhat subdued. 

Back in the days of Doug Buffone and co. there was very little swapping of teams done.  If you were a good player, you were probably going to be a lifer or near lifer to that team.  If you were a Packer, you were a Packer for life, or a Bear for life, etc.  With that gone, I think rivalries are now mostly for the fans, and barely there for the players.

This would be a good time for Christine Michael to get in sync with the offense, because we need to lean on the running game in this one. Monty ran well last time against the Bares, Rodgers passed really well, but I don't love the idea of an immobile Rodgers standing in the pocket against Leonard Floyd...who had 2 sacks and the Bares only TD last time. I imagine they won't respect the running game and will tee off on Rodgers, trying to take him out of the game. We need a heavy dose of screens and draws to burn them. 

Our D is playing with a lot of confidence and we destroyed Matt Barkley last time even with Demetri Goodson and Gunter starting. I'm actually not too worried about them in this one. 

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