Jets at Bears Recap: Bears do their part to secure #2 seed in NFC

worries me, seems to me that we would do better on a turf field, Dline hasn’t generated pressure in the sloppy conditions

is terrible…I know this isn’t new, but he seriously…is…garbage

who cares……nyg lose Bears are closer to 2nd seed….packers lose and they kiss their playoff hopes good bye…..

Rod run a front four of Wootton and Peppers on the ends, with Izzy and Toeiana in the middle. Just as a change of pace, to see how an offense would react. It might spring some TFLs loose.

“The Agony of Defeet”

I got a football autographed by him for Christmas. Looks like a good investment.

My guess is the turf was so loose, that it really hurt both teams ability to get any pressure. My bigger concern is our defensive scheme against good or hot QB’s. Brady and, today, Sanchez picked us apart. We’re probably going to run into some pretty talented players at that position in the playoffs and we can’t count on our offense scoring 35-40 points every week to bail us out.

On a different subject, did anyone notice on one of the Jets’ first offensive series we stopped a running play on 1st down for about a 3-4 yard loss but there was a holding called and Lovie accepted the penalty. We then had them at 1st & 20 rather than 2nd & 13/14. I didn’t like the call but didn’t think it was a bid deal until a similar situation came up again later in the game. On the first play after Maynard hit that really short punt that just about put the Jets in FG position right off the bat (I believe the game was tied at the time), we stuffed the running back for no gain on first down. There was a motion penalty called on the Jets but Lovie refused the penalty this time. Rather than taking a penalty that would have taken them completely out of FG range, he took the loss of down. I don’t think it came back to hurt us, but it’s those kinds of gametime decisions that drive me crazy. If anyone has a good explanation as to why those two calls were the correct decisions, please chime in because they didn’t make sense to me.

11 tackles, another game winning INT and a fum rec. It’s so nice to have him back there. Big game for him.

They just find ways to win.

dont want to go to the playoffs….Poor philip rivers…..

a freekin bye week. thats what.

get the 6th seed…..abusing the nyg…..

monday:

Singletary might not even be back for the season finale next week.

According to Matt Maiocco of Comcast SportsNet Bay Area, 49ers owner Jed York would not commit to Singletary coaching next week against the Cardinals. York also said the 49ers will begin interviewing general manager candidates soon.

Link…….

joe buck is a BIG packer fan……

piss poor

Giving this team some dap!

can the Packers still miss the playoffs if they win out? Tampa Bay could finish 10-6 as well

This team beat us, people. They beat us real bad. It’s enough to drive a man to the bottle.

The showdown at Lambeau is a play-in game for the Packers, NOT the Bears.

It would be so, so sweet to crush the Packers’ playoff hopes on the frozen tundra. However, I hope the Bears are taking notes. We’re going to have to play Hitman at our own goal line if Rodgers keeps threading the needle like he did today. Scary.

Tom Waddle picks the packers over the Bears next week…..

Forte not only became the 1st running back since the Rex Ryan era to run for 100 yards, he did it on his first 13 carries. He ran hard and he hit the holes with conviction, with a couple bounce backs outside too. My question is what happened to our Defense? Now this entire season, the only two QBs I have seen just shred our defense was Aaron Rodgers and Tom Brady..not sure why Sanchez was able to do it, but I know for a fact he is not in the same field as those two. Whatever it is, we need to look at some stuff, maybe a little more bump and run, maybe dropping the MLB in coverage more for the slants but whatever it is, i hope we figure it out. Great game, Bear Down!

Last year, he stopped running as soon as he ran into any resistance. Since game 2 or 3 of this year, he has really started showing he can keep pumping his legs and push for those few more yards, or even a broken tackle.

I wonder what brought the change about? Good coaching (by whom)? observation of others? Internal epiphany?

I’d like to know.

I even enjoyed the snow. Would have been nice if our defense had decided to play more than 3 series in the whole game. Nice to see Mark Montana (Joe Sanchez?) get to play for the Jets. Cutler’s pick and his (bad) sack were most certainly on him as was his awesome 3rd qt play. Forte was a freakin’ beast and could’ve used more carries. Devin Hester…. damn, just damn.

Offense looked great… defense looked stubbornly stuck in zone coverage.

Somebody shoot him please.

that is all

about the Bears being pretenders
harping on about other teams handing games to us and our leaky oline and cutlers inconsistency and our defense givin up yards and…wait, anyone wanna guess what else?
haven’t we all heard this stuff before? sure Les, keep on being a pessimist.
DA BEARS WOULD LOVE TO PROVE YA WRONG!

1. Hester continues to make plays in a limited role; his humility is refreshing!
2. Still not sold on Knox as anything other than a guy to take the snaps Hester doesn’t.
3. Game ball to C Harris, 11 tackles, 1 fumble recovery, game winning INT.
4. O-line is better each week; even if the Jets were not mounting much of an effort to rush the QB.
5. Forte suddenly decided to play angry and it works!
6. The defensive line is just OK, not great.
7. T Harris is just useless.
8. More than anything else, the Bears need at least 1 new CB, if not 2.
9. It is very difficult to watch the 15 yard seam routes completed over and over again in this Cover-Who zone scheme. More pressure isn’t going to help, but more coverage will.
10. The Bears need the #2 seed to avoid having to play an extra game.
11. For the Bears to be any better than a one and done playoff team, the defense needs to improve greatly. It’s more than just execution, the play calling isn’t very good and the Cover-who zones needs to be much tighter. Here’s a tip: try actually putting a hand on the WRs before they get 5 yards of separation 15 yards down the field.
12. The Bears can be a dominant SB contender IF they can adjust their defensive philosophy to be more effective early in games. The offense is improving every week, the defense is giving up far too many yards and points. This playoff run will show us how well Lovie and Marinelli can get their defensive failures addressed. They are the defensive geniuses hired to make this defense great. The time is now for them to step up and show they can do more than “teach” the Cover-2. They need to make it better than it has been at home this season. My suggestion…play T Harris less!

Nervous but happy

Except #10 is kind of a no brainer, don’t you think? It’s like saying water is wet. And Forte is just starting to peak at the right time. He’s looking like the key moving forward. With a helmet tip to Da Hamsta I think we can scrap the Chester Taylor experiment and go in a different direction. Chet sucks. Big time. Big like Manu…..

Marinelli and Smith needs to sit everybody down and go over film and make adjustments, because the way they played is not acceptable: they need to do a better job in sealing off the edges against runs and bootlegs, and safeties need to go back over fundamentals.

Bears always get scored on by pass on when they play Bad Cover-2. Remember the Brady-Branch TD, or the Sanchez-Holmes TD today.

It’s official: The final regular season game in the NFC North this season will be played at 4:15 p.m. ET at Lambeau Field. The Green Bay Packers just confirmed the change for their game against the Chicago Bears. As was the case previously, it will be televised by FOX.

Link

That didnt take long……Remember when fans were screaming for Singletary over Lovie….Good times….Good times….

his first one as a Bear and it would have killed us had Cutler not been on fire this day.

Well I hope it doesn’t happen again, Pep. Come on!

The D-line looked horrible for much of the game, but the offense picked them up today. Forte, Knox, Hester, and Cutler all played well versus a tough defense. Progress continues on that side of the ball.

i only hope we do not rest players against the pack. i want us to treat is as must win game. why? you may say. BECAUSE ITS THE PACKERS.

Awesome win.

Why can’t we have DB’s like NY has?

There’s nothing ‘wrong’ with our defensive line. It’s a speed defense that relies on our guys being quick off the line and getting into the backfield. Can’t do that on our turf. Jets couldn’t do it either – Cutler had all day to throw when they only rushed four. Our O-line is still terrible, they just looked good on slow turf. When we start playing people in domes – and I’m thinking Atlanta – we’ll look a lot better on D. Another crack at the PAts on a more favorable surface in Dallas would be nice. Just a shame the Falcons don’t seem to lose at home, but maybe Cutty can find a way through.

1.Goes to the offensive line. They really looked liked they knew what they were doing.Perhaps they just look good on ‘slow turf’ but I don’t think I saw any breakdowns on assignments.

2. Chester Taylor rarely comes in the game on the first two downs to not run the ball which i suspect has more to do with his struggles than anything else.

3.I know it’s one of those things where you can’t expect penalties to be called and help you in certain situations but Julius Peppers was being held all game.

4. Tommie Harris has been very inconsistent but there were two plays yesterday where he blew up Nick Mangold on running plays to stop the runner in the backfield.

5. Let’s not forget that the offensive line really opened holes for Matty Forte.

They are talking about the Jets in the playoffs (lucky just like last year) the Jest made the playoffs last year because 2 teams tanked it in and this time because a mediocre Jags team losing to grossman. And as usual nothing about the Bears beating the media’s favorite team. Why am I not suprised?