Chicago Bears Game Ball of the Week: Detroit Lions

The Packers may be going to NE next week and with or without Aaron Rodgers, that is a tough task. With Matt Flynn, they lose for sure, with Aaron Rodgers, they are still 6 point dogs.

And not to sound like a home, but if the NFL is serious about the whole concussion issue, how do they let Rodgers on the field after his SECOND concussion of the year.

If the NE-GB game goes to form, the Bears will be playing for the division title at Golden Gopher Stadium next Monday. (I don’t think the dome will be ready. I don’t know about you, but I highly doubt the state of Minnesota has a spare inflatable dome top just lying around. Again, that’s just me.)

but still..chalking this up to “well they’re better”…if this team is supposed to make a run in the playoffs, what happens if we see them in the superbowl, you can’t just say “well, they are a better team”

It’s just unacceptable to play the way they did. especially with all the talk of “this is game one of the playoffs for the Bears” ugh…i’m just frustrated.

hats off to the patriots fans, for being friendly, and insightful pre/mid/postgame

that said, Urlacheer an Co. better CRUSH the queens

Tom Brady did what any great QB is going to do, exploit the weakness of his opponent and take what the defense gives.

The Patriots played a great game. They did not however expose any glaring weaknesses that the coaching staff and most of us who follow WCG didn’t already know about. Certainly many blown coverages, for the most part though, he picked apart the defense, putting his receivers in the soft part of the zone and delivered the ball. Their running game was good enough to keep the defense guessing and with the experience up front, well, we all saw what happened.

All I could do was cover my eyes and scream “MOMMY, MAKE IT STOP!!”

I really did not want to see another team provide useful game film to our remaining 3 opponents. Sigh. Anyway, we are better than all 3 of our remaining opponents, so lets run the table and enter the playoffs with some momentum.

Its not embarrassing just because of the score, but because of the way we played. How does a Chicago Bears team look so awfull in the snow? I mean, I understand the O-line play (It was already a weak spot that was magnified by the bad weather) but aside from that they looked like they had never seen snow in their lives.

nothing new.
the Patriots exploited every weakness that we all knew the Bears have, ranging from weak in-game coaching adjustments to a faulty secondary, to the basic weaknesses of the Cover-2.
i’m curious to read what Wilt and others see as the primary areas that the Patriots homed in on.

http://sports.espn.go.com/dallas/nfl/news/story?id=5914095

We had a poor game in all phases yesterday. ONE GAME. We have been on a roll for a long time so a stinker was inevitable. Just remember about a month ago when NE was spanked by the Browns. Bad games happen to all let’s just focus on the next game and get this division clinched.

I expected the Bears to go 2-2 in the final 4 games beating the ‘queens and Packers. That puts the Bears into the playoffs, likely the #3 seed. I played around with the playoff calculator and even if the Pack wins the next 2 and the Bears lose the next 2 the winner of the Bears-Packers game is the division champ. If the Bears beat MN this week, it’s almost impossible for the Pack to catch them.
Yesterday’s game was something the entire Bears organization should be ashamed of, not because they lost, but because they were NEVER in the game. I hate any loss, and I get that few if any teams are going to win all of their games, but to not even be competitive is the issue in this game. It’s these debacle games that get under my skin and further my distaste of Lovie’s ability to prepare and motivate. In the end, it doesn’t make much of a difference, but losses like this should not happen to a team ready to make the playoffs.

I’ll remember a couple of things from this one:

1. Bear Weather – I’ve always been irritated by this phrase. We played the Patriots, not the Dolphins or the Chargers. The Patriots play in cold and snow too, you know.

2. Brady vs Cutler – Notice all the incredibly detailed preparation Brady made for this game. Putting footballs in the freezer, rubbing the footballs down to get them game ready, wearing the surfer’s body suit, studying Soldier Field before he got their to know where the clocks are, etc. When Phil Simms asked Cutler about prepping the footballs, Cutler said “I don’t care, just give me the ball.” That’s the difference between the game’s best and Jay Cutler.

and thank you for yesterday Mr. Nathan vasher! Our “Former Bear player of the week”!!!

1. The Pats are that good and I still hate them and the great Tom Bieber.
2. Im done with Webb he SUCKS Esclaimation Point!
3. Defense played like crap, NE’s D played like our D
4. Not mad at Cutler for those INTs since it wouldn’t matter anyway.
5. Bite me ESPN
6. Not the 1st time the pats Embarrassed a top 5 D (think its the 4th time)
7 No pressure from the D line. Cutty wishes he got that line around him.
8. Out played out coached in every phase of the game.
9. Why the hell do you have an inflatible roof in Minnesota? lol
10. Thank you Detroit but screw you Stafford for not sucking against us.

It all starts up front. Any aspirations of greatness are just fantasies until that problem is resolved.

where we played so turrible, we forgot to post a Bears Den

We just need to beat the “Detroit” Vikings and the NY Jets…and the Patriot Debacle won’t matter…we will win the Division.

GB will lose to the Pats next week with or without Rodgers…and then will be two games behind us so the final game will be a pride game if we beat the Vikes and Jets…plus the Giants will be trying to secure a division/wild card spot…so that won’t be an easy game either.

New England just decided that they weren’t going to let the weather play a factor. They might as well have been playing in a dome. I think we were too fixated on the weather and how it was supposed to affect the game- we were expecting the Bears to grind it out in a ground war/ special teams slugfest. New England had other ideas.

When NE took the field on their second possession and starting throwing the ball all over the field, the Bears just crumbled. That was not the game they expected and prepared for. So we got worked. Just goes to show, against superior talent, you need to be ready for anything.

So, I’m thinking, if those tipped Tom Brady passes are picked off, if offensive pass interference was actually called on the first New England touchdown, if Knox lands on the turf instead of that guy’s foot… maybe we have a different outcome. But you can’t change what happened, and it’s kind of weird, I’m alright with it.

At the beginning of the year I did not expect the Bears would be in a position to win the division. Heck, after the Giants game I thought 6-10 was generous. So we got our butts kicked by the best team in football. Big deal. The Bears have exceeded my expectations so far and if we still win the division, I’ll be thrilled. This game? It’s one game and it got away from them.

Let’s move on and crush the Vikings and send Favre packing for good.

For as good as everyone likes to say the Falcons, Packers and Saints are they don’t hold a candle to how good the Patriots are. There is not a team in the NFC that the Bears can’t play with, and if we are are lucky the next time we see the Patriots will be in Dallas TX.

Kinda made me feel bad……But eh I got emotional as well during the game…..

Least packer fans and denver fans enjoyed the Bears game yesterday

I just go back to the Bears were suppose to be (even I thought this) 3 – 10 at this point with martz or tice as the interim HC…..

Just hope they dont blow this cause would have to hear Cutler is a choke artist cause he can not get the one win to get his team to the playoffs……That will be fun to discuss eh? …..

than the game versus the Pats. Now that we got blown out, maybe it won’t happen again for the rest of the season.

Yes, I’m being optimistic.

back in 2006, 2 weeks before the Bears Pats game…our field (Pats) was so fked up…and they decided to put in Field Turf two weeks before the Bears game.
Are they ever going to install Field Turf? It would make sense and give the Bears D an advantage?
Thanks

Yes the bears got destroyed by Brady but it wasn’t like it’s the first defense Brady made look foolish. Remember this year Brady beat the Chargers, Steelers, Jets, Dolphins, Ravens and Vikings. All those are top 6 in defense in the NFL in yrds allowed. Getting beat by Brady shouldn’t discourage the bears since he pretty much manhandled most defenses thrown at him so far.