[NU Sports] Bears/Packers

[Beamsley, Jeff]

I honestly think that the packers were ripe for the picking yesterday.  

 

The bears weren't even close to being ready to play.  Ultimately, the
blame for that has to fall to Lovie.

 

The D got themselves in a hole early and spent most of the rest of the
game defending a short field because of poor offense and special teams
play.  So giving up two scores in the first half, pitching a shutout in
the second half, and getting two turnovers was not a bad day.  If the
offense or special teams had been able to do anything to turn around
field position in the first half, there may have only been one GB score.


 

The offense was so bad, though, that the game was almost over at half
time.  The fact that the third string QB could make the fourth quarter
interesting was testimony to how bad the starting offense had played the
first three quarters.  

 

If we had seen only a glimmer of the sort of line play and special teams
that dominated Seattle, the bears could have won it on field goals 9-7.

 

Now instead of an interesting Super Bowl, the pack will get ground into
dust by the steelers' running game.  Big ben's uni likely won't even get
dirty.

 

Jeff

 

 

From: Alan Abrahamson [mailto:alan.abrahamson at gmail.com] 
Sent: Monday, January 24, 2011 2:47 PM
To: Beamsley, Jeff; Northwestern Wildcats
Subject: Re: [NU Sports] Bears/Packers

 

That third-and-3 call on the final drive -- that lame reverse -- was
godawful.

 

But let's face it. The Packers are a better team. That's why Lovie went
for the killshot in Week 17, playing his starters, trying to take Green
Bay out then. He knew they were dangerous, and wanted them out. Couldn't
do it then, and couldn't do it yesterday.

 

 

On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 11:35 AM, Beamsley, Jeff
<Jeff.Beamsley at covisint.com> wrote:

Sun Times reporting that Cutler suffered a torn MCL sometime in the
second quarter.

That said, he played poorly before the injury too.

I agree that this was not an issue of officiating.

It was an issue of the Bears offense failing to execute, and Martz being
outcoached by Capers.  BTW Martz reportedly apologized to a reporter for
his poor performance as he left the field.

Jeff


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From: nwu-sports-bounces at tssi.com [mailto:nwu-sports-bounces at tssi.com]
On Behalf Of Mike Nolan
Sent: Monday, January 24, 2011 2:14 PM
To: MHRJGScott at aol.com
Cc: nwu-sports at romaine.tssi.com
Subject: Re: [NU Sports] Bears/Packers

> The refs were fer shure cheeseheads, da bears was robbed,

Don't get me wrong, I don't think inept officiating cost the Bears the
game,
I think inept play on the part of at least two of the QBs who played in
the game for the Bear was the major factor, and the Bears defense and
special teams weren't able to pull off yet another miracle this season.

I think there were questionable calls and no-calls that affected
both teams.
--
Mike Nolan

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