The Packers did a fantastic job of one thing tonight... keeping the Bears in it. That should have been a blowout in the first half. The Bears are absolutely putrid. The fact that they are a playoff contender is a joke. They beat the Colts in Week 1 when Peyton was playing on one leg and in his first action of the year. They also beat the Eagles, the Lions twice, Vikings, Rams, Jaguars and Saints. That is not exactly a who's who of NFL Royalty this year. Kyle Orton has got to be the worst quarterback in the league, or at least darn close. Their coach, Lovie Smith, is maybe the most useless head coach in football. He is never doing anything when they show him on TV. Seriously, he is tucked so far into his hat and facemask that he probably can't even talk into his headset. He never changes his expression and rarely ever paces. He doesn't call the offensive plays, doesn't call the defensive plays and has guys in the booth tell him when to challenge a play. I guess he throws the challenge flag, so at least that's something. The Packers just couldn't make the play to knock the Bears out, and low and behold, in the fourth quarter, the predictable defensive breakdown allowed a big play for the Bears, and then the ability to make a stop allowed the Bears to tie it up again. So of course, if we follow the script, the next step would be a 4th quarter interception by Aaron Rodgers. But what did we get...
Probably the stupidest penalty I've seen in a while. A horse collar/late hit, whatever you want to call it after a nice return by Will Blackman. Honestly, how can you not resist from doing that? You should get fined for that kind of stupidity. Or cut. Or arrested. On another note, I have absolutely no idea why teams still believe this little squib kick thing is a good idea. I can't even really dream up a reason to believe why they think it is beneficial. The Bears were burnt on it, making it the 24th straight time I've watched that fail.
Then the Pack really decided to show that they weren't going to repeat earlier mistakes when they settled for a 52 yard field goal attempt that was missed, by throwing 3 consectutive passes taking it down to the two minute warning. It worked as they picked up a first down. Then they did the right thing by forcing the Bears to use their last time out by running the ball. I can't complain at all about the clock management in this game. So it's all set up, the script has been changed, there was no interception, so what do we get instead.... a blocked field goal!!! You have got to be kidding me. Hey at least they found a different way to blow this one. I was getting sort of sick of watching them lose the same way every week.
And what ends up really costing the Packers, well, what else would you guess.... A PENALTY!!! A stupid penalty at that. You just watched your opponent get called for the same thing, so why not go try it out yourself. Absolutely genius football players on this team. If that wasn't bad enough, let's have our two defenders crash into each other, fall down, and give up another big play. Wow.
I'm done. I want that 4 hours of my life back.
Go Lions.
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The game was laughable at the end. I remember turning to the wife and saying, "Watch them blow it...". Sure enough, Crosby delivery was delayed and the line caved. Not to mention the botched field goal earlier in the game when Flynn mishandled the snap.
The three knuckle-heads (comentators) made me cringe a couple of times. Although Korn-nuts only droped Favre's name 5 times from what I counted. Impressive. The first game of the year he mentioned that name 34.5 times. He was cut-off once by "JAWS". All three of those dips call an awful game.
Your crazy, he had said Favre 5 times before the first kickoff.
MLB blows. I might boycott the sport until they get a salary cap or something similar. It's so much fun to sit and watch one team gobble up all of the high end free agents. Way to go Yankees. This would be like the Knicks getting Lebron, Dwade, and Bosh in the summer of 2010.
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