I watched the whole Bear game Sunday and they are pathetic ! The Rams had a chance to tie them on the final drive.
The Rams stated their first 4 possesions at or near midfield and only the Rams being a horrible team prevented them from having a 17 point lead on the Bears.
Now before you say that we have lost the last 2 years in Chicago, remember this,,,
In 2007 there were 50 MPH winds in Chicago and Favre defeated his own team in pre game warmups by saying he would be lucky to complete 5 passes in that wind.
Last year the Packers had a 14-3 halftime lead and stooped the Bears on their opening posession in the second half and were about to blow the Bears out but Jarret Bush could not get out of the way of a Bear punt and in spite of that the Packers would have won if Crosby would have done his job.
The only way the Bears stay in this game is if the Packers turn the ball over 4 times.
The Packer defense was blowing leads last year when they went into Chicago , the Bears will be facing a much better Packer defense this year.
The Packers must try to take a 14-0 first quarter lead in Chicago because if they do the Bear fans willl trun on their team fast.
The Bears cover 2 defnse with no Urlacher and maybe no Briggs will not be able to stop out tight ends in the middle of the field.
The Packers were 2-0 against the Ravens and Ray Lewis going into this game , the Packers are 2-0 against Jay Cutler amd he has only put one touchdown on the board against us in each game.
The Packer defense whipped a very good Raven offensive line , they will destoy the Bears’ offensive line..
The Bears have packed their bags 5 weeks ago . Also, Cutler and Hester may have injuries coming out of the Ram game.
The Packers all of a sudden could be one game out of first place next week , the Vikings are playing a very tough Bengal team. If the Vikings do not put the division away this coming week , it could be a fight to the finish.

if it was not for them 2 turnover’s in the 3rd quarter we woud have blown them out.

what was great is that to start the 4th quarter, the game was on the line and the packers got the job done.

roll on sunday

I’m thrilled to death the Packers came out with a victory and kept pace with the Eagles for a wild-card berth. I believe the Packers will make the playoffs and as we’ve seen recently, anything can transpire at that point! On the flip side (and I don’t know this for a fact), I doubt a team which led the NFL in penalties has ever won the Superbowl (maybe the old Raiders). Playing aggressive is not an excuse for committing egregious numbers of penalties and that will be our undoing if they can’t get it under control. JMHO

Preface to this next section: I do not like Jarrett Bush. Possibly that leads me to notice only his bad plays while not seeing his successes; I really don’t know. But here are my top three Jarrett Bush lowlights from last night: 1) Kapinos punt is thrown back by gunner, only to hit the trailing Jarrett Bush and go into the endzone for a touchback; 2) Jarrett Bush beaten badly by Kelley Washington for Ravens first TD; 3) Jarrett Bush trailing Raven’s #21 on KO return as Tramon tackles him to save the TD. He’s a far-below-average nickelback and he’s not the special teams demon he’s been advertised to be! I becoming convinced he’s Bhawoh Jue in disguise, back to torment us some more…

Special teams’ guys just need to learn to stay in their lanes to prevent these big runbacks from happening. Shawn Slocum should be fired at the end of the year, and so should Campen. J. Bush needs to be demoted. I’ve never been sold on the guy. Surely Martin, Ford or Goridani can do the job better. If it weren’t for the one freak Driver play, and Driver’s drop, the Ravens offense would’ve been non-existent last night. I felt bad for Driver on those. He’s such a competitor. It’s hard to get mad at the guy. The second interception was more Rodgers’ fault anyway for throwing it so low. Other than that, the defense looks phenom!

Bringing Tauscher back was huge. I love having Green back as well. They have been playing good football since the loss to Tampa.

A bad QB day in the NFL is about 55% completions, which is probably about 18. Those 18 go against someone …this is the way the rules are set up. Sometimes linebackers, safeties and corners. Not everyone sucks just because they give up a completion…and in the prevent/zone defense the goal is to give up the middle stuff and short stuff. To say Bush is bad because a catch is made is crazy. If anything Tramon Williams should be villified for his umteen penalties.

Bush has played 3 very good games in a row as the nickle…and no he’ll never be Charles Woodson…but he’s better than Ahman Carroll ever was!

Larry, I agree that Williams also needs to be held accountable. He needs to quit hooking that arm around the receivers. Now refs are going to be zeroing in on that. Raji, Matthews and Jones all looked fantastic. Looks like this last draft may be one of the best ever for the Pack. I was worried about Raji injury earlier in the year. I don’t want another Harrell. Looks like it won’t be that case again. Raji is showing his true colors now, and made a few really nice plays last night. Matthews should be defensive rookie of the year, in my opinion.

This is fun. We used to argue about the #1 player on the roster (Favre) and now we’re arguing about my personal #45 player on the active gameday roster (Bush). I guess that means the team is making progress!

Larry – Bush has NOT played three good games in a row. He gave up a long completion to Dennis Freaking Northcutt of the Lions and was barely in the picture on Kelley Freaking Washington’s simple out pattern from the 12 yard line. It wasn’t zone, it wasn’t short and he didn’t keep it in front of him. We know every d-back will give up completions, but it’d be nice if Bush was even close enough to make a dive at the ball! If he can’t compete with the Sammie Slaughters, Dennis Northcutts and Kelley Washingtons of the world, what’s gonna happen when we play the Cardinals and he’s lined up on Fitzgerald, Boldin or Breaston? I hope Capers can keep the heat on with the pass rush or the likes of Kurt Warner will have a turkey shoot…

Besides injuries, the only thing that will hurt us in tough games is Crosby, He has no confidence, also I believe that MM still has to be let go along with special teams and o line coaches. This team has way to many penalty’s. If we were in the playoffs we wouldn’t recover from that many penalty’s. The defense right now is more fun to watch then the offense, good job to Dom Capers and his staff. However Al I can still question Capers on the Viking games, really bad game plan against them. the 2 teams that have beaten the Vikes have gotten to Favre, we didn’t! and we all know you put pressure on Brett and he will throw picks and fumble. also I’m just amazed with Charles Woodson, what a year he is having and I loved to see the piece on him during Thankgiving game, with him and the work he does with the Childrens hospital. He’s a real class guy!

I’ll have to question your memory LT; for the season (12 Games), JB has 14 tackles (11 solo), 0 Sacks, 0 Forced Fumbles, 0 Interceptions and 6 Passes Defended. He couldn’t have been an “eyelash” from four INT’s in the Detroit game if he was only credited with two passes defended; one of them of course was the INT he dropped. Do those sound like the statistics of a player who can “cover the whole field”? Has he made a single “impact” play (of the positive variety)?

In closing, time has already proven out; Bush won the nickel job coming out of camp in 2007, lost it immediately and was no higher than sixth on the CB depth chart in this year’s TC. He has ZERO interceptions for his career, which now includes 2.75 seasons! Ted loves versatility and special teams play, which is the only plausible explanation for JB’s presence on our roster. Of course it doesn’t matter if Bush can’t make plays at corner, safety or on special teams, unless you enjoy the sight of #24 trailing a play while somebody else tackles his responsibility….

He hasn’t played that much, iccy. Like I said, “time will tell”. He is just this year’s Bigby, thats all. I know why his stats are so low – the opposition is afraid of him, yeah, that it, afraid of him!

Comment from the Star Tribune article on a possible third game between the Packers and vikings:

“Packers = Epic Failure against the Vikings
We beated them twice already, once at the dome and once at lambeau. They had no clue how to attack Favre and was lost like an little kid in a crowd. Especially at Lambeau Field, we whoop them butt the whole 1st half and shut them down. Only reasons it got kinda close was becuz the defense played softly. Another re-match would be nice and we will whoop them again. That’ll be great, sending them home and getting whoop three times by Favre. Now that’s PRICELESS!”

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Seriously, we Packer fans may get after each other once in awhile, but nobody on the site approaches this level of idiocy (ok – paul did, but he’s been absent for awhile).

For two into three games now the D has been flying all over, but with purpose. I’m looking forward to a rematch because this is a different team than MIN faced before. And you are so right, Pack4, iccy and I might not agree on a given player, coach, or GM, but like you we are solidly behind the Pack and show respect to each other.
Besides, I can’t lose – if my guy doesn’t make it and is replaced it’ll be with a better player and for the betterment of the team. If he makes it, we all win.

Of course, before we get too carried away, there’s this to consider, from ESPN:

“The Packers slugged to a historically sloppy 27-14 victory over Baltimore. How historic and how sloppy? According to ESPN Stats & Information, Monday night marked only the second time since the 1970 NFL-AFL merger that a team won with at least three turnovers and 175 penalty yards.”

Reason for concern, or reason to think we’re good enough to overcome those kind of problems and still win? I’m going to go glass half full, and say creating the kind of turnovers we can covers up a variety of sins.

I guess it is time for me to eat some crow. This is what I posted on November 8th in Al’s “Packers-Bucs Game Blog” following the Packers 38-28 loss to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers:

“I will say it now – THE 2009 SEASON IS OVER FOR THE GREEN BAY PACKERS. With the Cowboys up next Sunday and the Packers sitting at 4-4, it looks pretty bleak for the Packers to have any chance at the Playoffs. I have not been real high on this team this year, but at least I had them at 5-3 after today and in the mix for a chance at the playoffs. I knew that today’s game would be no gimme as I said in earlier posts and blogs, but after today, I truly believe that this team is worse than last year’s 6-10 squad.”

The vastness of my wrongness in what I posted is staggering. The Packers have won 4 games in a row to get to 8-4 with a great shot at making the playoffs as a wild card team. I would like to say that the wheels are about to come off the Vikings and Favre’s season and that they will go in the tank over the next 4 weeks and that the Packers have a shot at catching them and winning the division, but that is just wishful thinking on my part.

The good from last night’s game:
1) Aaron Rodgers – was off at times during the game, but the 19 yard TD he threw to Finley to make the score 24-14 was a thing of beauty and a throw few NFL QB’s can make on the move.
2) Jermichael Finley – the Packers finally have what I believe is a great TE. He will go and get the football and is turning into a nice option for Rodgers.
3) Clay Matthews – his relentless rushing of Flacco and his style of play is great for the Packers D.
4) Nick Barnett – you may not have noticed it much, but he really helped shut down Ray Rice from coming out of the backfield on play action passed. Rice had been incredible catching the ball coming out of the backfield and Barnett held him down.
5) Dom Capers and the Defense – great game plan and the No. 1 rated defense in the NFL is playing well.
6) The O-Line – playing well over the last 4 games and have found a way to keep Rodgers upright. It had also helped that Rodgers is getting rid of the football quicker than he was the first 6-7 weeks of the season.

The bad from last night’s game:
1) Penalties – this has to be corrected if the Packers want to make the playoffs and if the Packers want to make a run in the playoffs.
2) Mason Crosby – does anyone have faith in this guy anymore. Every time he lines up for a FG of 30 yards or more, I believe he will miss it.
3) Special Teams – some o’l crap. Giving up huge kickoff returns right after the Packers have the momentum going their way only to see the momentum swing to the other team. Special teams have been pathetic.
4) Challenges – who told McCarty to challenge the Kelley Washington TD – he was clearly in for the TD. Great challenge on the fumble call on Grant, I am just asking for better use of the challenge flag from McCarty. You cannot just give up your timeouts and your challenges.
5) Tramon Williams – great interception that Flacco gift wrapped for him, and one of the pass interference calls on him in the end zone was BS, but I am not sure if he is the answer. He looked beat several times and Chicago, Pittsburgh, Seattle and Arizona are going to throw his way in the remaining 4 games.

Overall, I am surprised and excited that the Packers are in the position that they are in. This team has improved drastically since the Tampa Bay loss and they have much improvement to make. I will say that MM and TT have gotten in gear and now have the Packers poised for the playoffs. Let’s see where they can take Packers with 4 games remaining.

I wont Poo Poo a Dec. W but no Ed Reed made this a gimmee. I believe Finley could have still dominated the middle but who cares. Finley makes the Packers offense more potent than the 07 team. Slocum has to fix this coverage crap, we are using starters and still no success. I dont get Giordano, Bell and other people inactive seems like who ever is covering in the middle gets wired to blocks or falls without being touched. We may need to cut the 3rd fullback Hall or Kuhn and get a special teamer. If you want some real comic relief check out the vikes boards they are ready to panic at 10-2 wow what a joke. Go Pack Beat the Bears!

Dom is a excellent coach. I am amazed that only after 10 games, he has gone this defense firing on all levels.

I still do not understand why Wells did not start at the beginning of the season. Taucher, a health Cliffton and Wells are making this line better. Sitton has also been good most of the year.

Bush is a huge liability.

If we do make the playoffs, I sure hope we are not a one and done team.

Play of the game was Woodson’s shoestring tackle on McGahee on 1st and goal at the 1. Another excellent 4th quarter on both offense and defense, which we’ve had many of this season and almost none of last year. You want the difference between 6-10 and 8-4? It’s the performance of our playmakers at gut check time and our ability to respond when the other team starts to make a run.

Many great comments above. I thought ARod did a great job of moving in and out of the pocket last night. He did not yet display the classic Farveian “ole as a D rusher misses, but he was mobile without be happy-footed in avoiding pressure and sacks and occasionally picking up yards with his feet or finding a receiver late. I saw it as a new step up in maturity.

Meanwhile, I am looking forward to seeing Favre’s performance fall off again this year; he looked old, tired and defeated against the Cardinals.

Lived in MN 20 years you will see full blown panic if they lose to Cincy. Cincy will need the game. Unlike 1989!! Good thing is the Vikes will have to play full tilt till the end and will never have a chance to rest their starters.

Anybody that says they saw this coming after the Tampa game is full of shit. We were a mediocre 4-4 at that point, blew a fourth quarter lead against a winless team that may be the worst in the league, and had looked vastly inferior to the only 2 good teams we faced (three losses), the Vikes and Bengals. Yes, you could PRAY we got hot, but predicting it or expecting it is another matter.

I didn’t see anything at that point, other than a weak schedule, to be very optimistic about, but that TB loss may turn out to be one of those galvanizing moments that kicked the rest of the season into high gear. Perhaps the sheer embarassment of it all kicked the whole team in the ass. I still have my doubts about how we fair against the NFC elite, but first things first. Let’s get in the playoffs and take our chances from there.

We have alot of road games coming up, perhaps good practice for the playoffs, which I think are extremely likely at this point. How the O-line and D both gelled at the same time is beyond me (maybe the sacrifice of the neighborhood pets to Jobu was not in vain after all) but I’ll certainly take it, and give alot of credit to both the players and coaches for hanging together. Now if we could just do something about ST and all those damn penalties! (Perhaps that’s next to get fixed, or is that too much to ask?)

PP,

I know you’ve been hot on Jags for some time now, but you don’t seriously think they’re going to shake up the O coaching staff in the middle of a winning streak do you? I doubt the subject was even considered at our low point after Tampa, let alone now.

Mind you, you could be completely right in your assertion. It’s just more likely that TT would give an hour press conference tomorrow about his true feelings for Brett Favre, under the influence of sodium pentathol, than that they would do what you’re suggesting.

I would be less surprised to discover McMuffin had more mistresses than Tiger than for them to switch OC’s right now.

I have a dream…

hey Doug R, that sounds like another low Percentage scenario that actually played out where the GBP actually hosted the NFC Championship game at Lambeau after a couple of improbable upsets aligned the stars in our favre-or…

Pete, yep, seem to recall the NYG here for a game…

Also, in this scenario, if Vikes beat AZ in wildcard, then Dallas beat 6th seed then Vikes would play NO and Pack would host Dallas setting up possible NFC Championship game at…Lambeau Field if Vikes beat NO

What would ratings of that game be?

Stranger things have happened…