What say you rats.
Time to put up, or shut up.
How confident are you that the Packers win in week one ??
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What say you rats.
Time to put up, or shut up.
How confident are you that the Packers win in week one ??
Bottom line: the Bears still suck.
The poll maybe shoulda asked, will the Packers and Love look great and fire everybody up for a great season? Or will struggle to an ugly win? That would be closer to a coin flip, but optimist that I am, I'd still go with the positive.
Love vs. Fields for the future of the division. In the greatest rivalry in sports. What a game.
Bears were the worst team in the league last year. They haven't suddenly become good. The Packers have improved at most position groups and Love should be able to match what Rodgers did last year, if not exceed it. Plus the Packers actually played their starters in preseason, so they won't look like shit in the first game. Packers win 27-10 and the wailing from the Bears fans will be sweet to hear.
Packers defensive front is better then the Bears offensive line. And the Packers offensive line is darned good. I think the Packers win this one in the trenches. As long as Packers don't let Fields run wild, they have most of the advantages.
I'm figuring the Packers win by 16. The kid misses his first extra point attempt. Defense all the way.
Gotta love packer fans confidence! We’ve had 30 years of HOF qb play. We always expect to win.
This could really happen. I have not decided who I think is going to win. I predicted 7-10. There are going to be a lot of up and downs this season.
We have an unproven QB, we're the youngest team in the NFL, we don't know how well Rashan Gary is, our #2 CB is injured, and our safeties are not really that good. All of our WR's and TE's are very young. There are going to be a lot of growing pains IMO
The Bears OL is still pretty bad; we do have a big advantage there.
New guy sets the tone for the future of the rivalry.
Come on people, how many Packer games have we watched over the years where we said this EXACT thing, only to watch some no-name running back rush for well over one hundred yards?
Last year this time I was high on the Packer defense. And they dropped a bunch of turds most of the season.
And how have we been the last couple years in our season opener ?
And who is da Bears OC right now.......prolly a guy we should've kept there
Fields reminds me of the first few seasons of the Vikings - they had Tarkenton and virtually nothing else. It still was frustrating at times, though, to see the guy run all over hell and occasionally pull a TD pass out of his ass.
Back in the day, we beat Tarkenton the great majority of the time - because like the Bears now, the rest of his team was so bad, not to mention, Lombardi's Packers were so good, kinda like today's Packers too.
A lot of that was after the Lombardi era - when it was a great majority of the time.
Also, during the Lombardi era, the Vikings were just added to the NFL and had been formed in 1959. We should be kicking the Tampa Bay equivalent from the 1970s ass.
I suppose I should have specified it to begin with hahahaha - so nice to have a God damned truth squad.
I remember the very first Packer/Vikings game, also Tarkenton's first game vs he Packers because it was my Confirmation Day - I had a bad look on all the pictures because I was getting called away from watchng the game (a 37-13 win as I recall - I suppose somebody will look that one up too hahahaha). In those days and for the rest of the Lombardi era, he did that scrambling thing a lot like Fields now. It was frustrating to watch, but since ya'all like to look things up, maybe check how many times we beat him in those early years. Sure, Tarkenton overlapped into the Bengtson years and maybe beyond, and he probably was still around when the damned Vikings got to and blew the Super Bowl (you can check that one too hahahaha).
The point being, when I said "back in the day" (if I said that), I meant when Tarkenton was at the stage of his career that Fields is now.
Jordan Love is about to take his first step into ownership…of the Chicago Bears. Because that is what a GB QB does.
IF they lose. I think it will be close, and the new kicker is what will cost them.
I said they were a 9-8 team that would be fine finishing 5-12 with a top 8 pick due to rookie K/P. Then they can decide if the potential is playing out or they can move on after this young roster has a year under its belt. We aren't winning an Owl, might as well get a top pick and hope one of the 2 work out.
Very excited to see the start of love Era. I am worried about our slow starts but the bears are a bad team.
Man I hope I feel this good or better tonight.
GPG!
Tarkenton was 2-10 as a starter against the Packers from his rookie year in 1961 to Lombardi's last season as Packers coach in 1967.
After further review, tex was right. Fritz is charged with a timeout and has one challenge remaining.
Tarkenton ran for only one rushing TD in that time, his rookie season. He threw 12 TD passes and 21 INTs in that span.
I know at the time it probably felt good that those Vikings teams collapsed in the big game, but I do feel bad for those old-timers who never got to achieve the pinnacle of greatness. Kinda like Ahman Green on those tweener Packers teams. Not quite.
Especially since a lot of the old-timers are fading away now.
Bretsky, CaptainD, Fosco33, Vincenzo, Fritz, Tony Oday
This group owes the Packer faithful a little penance. I think at least in Tony Oday's case it's some sort of weird reverse-jinx gris-gris shit, but it does not matter. Each of you pony up, go out on your front porch, spank yourself, and say thirteen Hail Marys to St. Vincent.
In other news, the Bears still suck.
Thanks Fritz. Good job with your additional research about Tarkenton.
As for the Bears game, predictions are predictions. Some work, some don't.
I am completely confident in saying AGAIN though, this Packers team is loaded even if Love is just mediocre. And it's beginning to look like Love is pretty far above that level.