I know Favre passed Marino already, I should have been more clear.
Packers couldn't fuinish them tonight. Absolutely killing them in the first half but those 2 fumbles really changed it.
Naw, who's to say they would have scored? The fumbles basically equated to 2 three and outs. Defense came up big.
Add in a couple of bad calls that gave Chicago points and alls I can say is that this team is going to be absolutely nauseous when they watch the film on Monday.
Bad Calls? BS, every call on the Packers was legit. Even the one about lining up in front of the center.
Chicago's offense was pretty dormant, Benson has been another highly drafted RB that the Bears busted on (still find the Thomas Jones trade mind boggling) and Griese hasn't been spectacular in place of Grossman.
The offense did enough to win, which is all I'm looking for out of Griese at present. Grossman was losing them games, all by himself. All I ask from the Bears QB is not to mess up too badly. The reason they traded Jones is twofold. While they had the money to pay Jones' new contract, the chemistry between Jones and Benson was awful, and to keep both would have cost more than just keeping Benson. Jones rubbed Benson the wrong way, and had a habit of making the locker room not a fun place to be.
Their defense came up big in the second half.
Indeed, they shut the running game down in the first half, after that one drive, then they shut the Packer's completely down in the second half. The Packer's looked great in the first quarter, after that, not so much. That's why they play football games for 60 minutes instead of 15.
you know, if the packers won then i guess this thread would of gotten its usual pick peck responses. but alas! rub it in!
your right nuke, those two fumbles by Johnson really REALLY hurt and if they wouldnt of happened, the Packers could of been up 21 -7 by the end of the first period.
Oh BS, you know if the Bears had lost, you would have been rubbing it in too.
Jones, not Johnson. Yes, the Packers might have been up 21-7, or they might have been up 13-7, or they might have been tied. Impossible to say. And if the Bears had done something with the fumbles, THEY might have been up 21-7. So let's just stick with what actually happened. Yes, turnovers hurt, but they might have not gotten any points anyway.
the fumbled kick off by the Packers perty much sealed the deal and the Packers never got back momentum.
Fumbled punt return, not kickoff return. But the momentum was already in the Bears favor at that point.
that last drive with Farve throwing pass after pass and driving is how they should of played the whole game. thier running game is improving but i agree with aforementioned statements that they are in serious trouble unless they get one off the ground.
The Bears played some really decent football with only 1? penalty and no real errors besides a interception.
Farve's second interception came from a hell mary sort of pass that was really a last option.
Bears had like 5 penalties.
That last drive was with the Bears in the prevent, taking away the long ball, so he had to get 8-9 yards at a time. They were trying to run that gameplan all through the second half, but the Bears returned to form and started playing old-school Bears defense. Flying to the ball, keying off the QB, all the things they weren't doing at the beginning of the game. They were running the same offense, but the Bears weren't running the same defense. Their running game got lucky, the Bears were in the nickel, expecting Green Bay to pass, and they ripped off a few big runs. Then the Bears tightened up and stopped the running game cold. That's why they could shut the Packer's down so completely in the second half.
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