+++ & --- Packers and Bears

+
Walden - Earned his payday
Jackson as a Receiver
Starks
Hawk
Raji
Woodson
Peprah
Jennings with clutch catches in the second half
Masthay...he's been pretty good this year in general I think, but he was clutch tonight.
and oh yeah, PLAYOFFS

-
Driver Fumble
Jackson as a Running Back
2nd quarter
WRs dropping passes
Dropped INTs
Bulaga...he's definitely hit his rookie wall.
Rodgers Interception
Interception not being overturned
Not using Starks as much as he should
Blatant Holding never called
Nancypants Sallies

quote:

Originally posted by ammo:
Walden
Collins
Special Teams
Hawk
Raji

agree with above and:

Tramon

**Mastay especially from the special teams


-

Bulaga (he should be embarrassed)
Clifton
Colledge
Wells
BJunk
WR drops
playcalling in short yardage situations

We get to shut Deep ****cago up for a week!

+
Defense
Special Teams
-
Entire Offense: Way to show up today guys. Couldn't be more disappointed in every facet of this unit. It's like Jekyll and Hyde week to week.

+ win

- years off my life

quote:

Originally posted by CUPackFan:
Entire Offense: Way to show up today guys. Couldn't be more disappointed in every facet of this unit. It's like Jekyll and Hyde week to week.

They definitely didn't look good but a large amount of that was due to a D that had everything covered.

quote:

Originally posted by DH13:
going to the playoffs silent killer

Where does the Bears defense rank overall in the NFC out of all the NFC playoff teams?

+
DEFENSE
Special teams....yes I said it....Special teams.

-

Bulaga

+
Playoffs!
Defense
Special teams

-
Bulaga
Dropsies
Play calling

Defensive rankings, like most stats, can be twisted/interpreted a variety of ways and have a tendency to be used to prove a point.

The Bears Defense is very good. The can keep teams out of the end zone, or just completely shut down another team's offense. But just like most teams, they can be beat and beat easily if they don't bring their "A" game. The same can be said for the Packers, Eagles, and every other team in the playoffs. There's just no consistently dominant team.

+ defense
+ Special Teams
+ play calling (except on the first and goal and we only got a FG)

- Jordy not reading the block and NOT getting that first down...that could've cost us the game if the Bears had scored at the end and got the 2-point conversion....
- Jennings another key drop
- Jones another key drop

quote:

Originally posted by Blueshound:

quote:

Originally posted by DH13:
going to the playoffs silent killer

WTF is that? Is my point not valid? I was actually defending the O to a certain extent.

we no longer have to worry about a punter. I really can't believe that one.

Hawk had a great game on defense, as did Raji, Woodson, Walden, and Tramon Williams. Special teams was huge, especially Masthay. I was disappointed in receivers dropping catchable passes, but Jennings came through with a couple of big plays. It was good to see Starks back in the lineup. Kuhn wasn't productive in the running game today, but the Bears were definitely keying in on him.

Yup. Gotta give credit to the Bears "D". These 2 teams just know each other too well.

+++ DOM dialing up the pressure on Cutler. WOW!!!
+++++ Erik "Barnes & Noble" Waldenbooks (Who is this guy!?!?!)
+++++++++++ KEVIN GREEN!!!!!

----- Bulaga. C'mon kid, gotta do better than that. Overcome your coaching!
----- MM. Some of the play calling was really head scratching.

Starks definitely showed some flashes again if he can get some room to run. Tough to trust a rookie (ball security) who's been out most of the season going into the playoffs though.

I don't care how they sugarcoat it, that was the Bears' best effort. And they lost.

+'s
win, ugly but a win that gets you in, that's all that matters
MM learned from his goalline failure
the entire D and yes special teams

-'s
offense but a product of a better than i thought chicago D/two teams that are very familiar with one another
MM playcalling during that first goaline sequence

Does this count as a close win for MM and Rodgers? Or is the barometer now "record in games decided by 6 points or less"?

quote:

Originally posted by DH13:
hugs and kisses silent killer

LOL... me too. I was saying GB's offense played a pretty good defense.

quote:

WTF is that? Is my point not valid? I was actually defending the O to a certain extent.

I would guess (not having looked it up) that the Chicago D must be statistically the worst of the six NFC playoff teams, or else he wouldn't have made the comment.

+'s:

Masthay

-'s

1st and goal from the 1, and you can only get a FG? Worse, you lose four yards without committing a penalty?

CU, get your facts straight 4 points or less is the barometer for the nellies around here.

quote:

Originally posted by Fedya:
not catching on silent killer

I would guess (not having looked it up) that the Chicago D must be statistically the worst of the six NFC playoff teams, or else he wouldn't have made the comment.

What the F does it matter where they are ranked? They had most of the O plays buttoned down. The O's lack of production was not because of 18 penalties and tons of sloppy play. Anyone watching saw that the Bears' secondary was holding the WR's in check most of the game. Cripes.

I can't believe that warrants censoring. Wow.

quote:

Originally posted by CUPackFan:
Does this count as a close win for MM and Rodgers? Or is the barometer now "record in games decided by 6 points or less"?

Beat me to it. Excellent point.

quote:

Originally posted by Timmy!:
We get to shut Deep ****cago up for a week!

Yeah, but only for a week. If the Packers don't play a hell of a lot better in the rematch, he's going to get the last laugh.

Does this count as an Arod 4th Quarter win?

Pack was in a position to cut our hearts out again and didn't. Though the impact wasn't the same, left the Bears with the woulda/coulda/shoulda this time.

quote:

Originally posted by DH13:

quote:

Originally posted by Blueshound:

quote:

Originally posted by DH13:
going to the playoffs silent killer

WTF is that? Is my point not valid? I was actually defending the O to a certain extent.

Just a pet peeve. Nothing against you at all. No reason for Blueshound to quote your post when his is directly after yours.

based on this game,

lifetime contract for Slocum

OK. Thanks. I know you guys don't usually do that unless some one really gets out of line but the way the censor works, it looks like some one is calling me out as a "silent killer". Thanks again for the nod though.

sorry DH, I thought everyone knew what a silent killer is

quote:

Originally posted by Sally-Ka-Nancypants:


sorry DH, I thought everyone knew what a silent killer is

Same as "silent but deadly", no?

Positives:
Capers & the D
Matthews is back. He looks healthy again.
Walden making the most of his opportunity.
Special Teams! Mastay and Tramon and Bush were the stars.
Starks showed some glimmers.
Playoffs baby. 0-0 Anything can happen.


Negatives:
WR's all made one relatively important bad play. There were also a lot of plays where Rodgers simply didn't have anywhere to throw the ball.
MM - please stop giving the ball to Brandon Jackson so often. Put him in on 3rd down and that's it.
Playcalling - 3rd and 2 bomb, goal line fail. Why not run more play action on the goal line?
We didn't solve the Cover 2 today.

+ Boris

- Big Unit dwelling on all the negatives in the postgame right now. STFU

quote:

Originally posted by Boris:

quote:

Originally posted by DH13:

quote:

Originally posted by Blueshound:

quote:

Originally posted by DH13:
going to the playoffs silent killer

WTF is that? Is my point not valid? I was actually defending the O to a certain extent.

Just a pet peeve. Nothing against you at all. No reason for Blueshound to quote your post when his is directly after yours.

But by the time I hit the "post now" button, I don't know where my post will actually publish in the thread. It could be directly after the post I'm responding to, or it could be several posts later.

Hey DH, just to clear things up, my intent was to respond to CUPackfan who you had quoted and responded to. I was agreeing with your response and expanding upon it.

True. Could be but things don't generally move that fast around here. Maybe sometimes.

Anyway... We're IN!!!

Another positive from today's game:
Keeping the Giants out of the playoffs. We owed them that from about 4-5 years ago, when they did the same to us.

Biggest plus is that Dom Capers is our defensive coordinator, and Bob Sanders isn't.

I imagine Dom Capers might have figured out the Giants back shoulder throw at some point three years ago in the championship game....

quote:

Originally posted by Boris:
True. Could be but things don't generally move that fast around here. Maybe sometimes.

Anyway... We're IN!!!

Yeah, not normally but it does on the game day thread. Maybe that could be an exception to the peeve? Yep, we're in. Amazing resiliency from an injury plagued team woo hoo....