OH NOOO...SAY IT AIN'T SO....HOW WOULD YOU REACT ???????

[denverYooper]

When i watch the Bears play this year, with all the unimaginable luck they have had this year to even get to the NFC Championship, it honestly really reminds me of the 2007 Packers. EVERYTHING went our way that season, we had all the bounces of the ball go our way, and to be completley honest we werent a very good team at the start of the year in '07, much like the Bears were this year, they looked like they could lose to almost anyone, Seattle for example, and then the Patriot demolition at Soldier Field. But somehow they started playing better in all facets of the game, we couldnt run the ball in 07 until towards the second half of the season, same with the Bears, they didnt really establish anything until the second half. But once they created some consistency, they were able to balance their game a whole lot more, coupled with a few lucky breaks here and their, like the Packers losing to the Lions, Redskins and Dolphins.

What im trying to say is, these guys are like the 2007 Packers and the 2010 Falcons to an extent, they are pretenders who have had a lot of bounces go their way, but like all pretenders they will be revealed for what they are, we have far too much talent to lose this game, special teams isnt going to decide this game, not in the weather we will be expecting down their. There is no chance we lose this game, because we are the 2007 Giants.

That '07 GB team got a lot of breaks in the NFCCG also. Despite looking whipped all day they took it to OT.

[Tarlam!]

Michael, I have no idea what your rant is supposed to be a position on. I stated in my post clearly that IMO, M3 has done an outstanding job, whereas you have continually maintained he has not. Recently, you've been generous enough to acknowledge that he's learning and improving, but you also state he's less responsible than the players for the team's success. Funny, you still give him the responsibilty for any failure.

How can we possibly know if M3 is no Walsh? Rodgers no Montana? Are you saying that unless a HC wins 3 SB over an 8 year period, he's no Walsh? Guess what, TT hasn't won any SB either, but we see how great he is at putting together a team. Having said that, did M3 have this depth even last year? Should we blame TT for that? The OL still sucks. TT again?

I love your enthusiasm, mate, but I just don't see where you're coming from sometimes.

[mmmdk]

Michael, I have no idea what your rant is supposed to be a position on. I stated in my post clearly that IMO, M3 has done an outstanding job, whereas you have continually maintained he has not. Recently, you've been generous enough to acknowledge that he's learning and improving, but you also state he's less responsible than the players for the team's success. Funny, you still give him the responsibilty for any failure.

How can we possibly know if M3 is no Walsh? Rodgers no Montana? Are you saying that unless a HC wins 3 SB over an 8 year period, he's no Walsh? Guess what, TT hasn't won any SB either, but we see how great he is at putting together a team. Having said that, did M3 have this depth even last year? Should we blame TT for that? The OL still sucks. TT again?

I love your enthusiasm, mate, but I just don't see where you're coming from sometimes.

Maybe so, Tar, but you weren't my target - you just struck a train of thought (of mine) as many PR people whined about injuries were putting Packers down this season. I've said BS on the injury card all season. I whined about Stubby; I think we all knew/know that this season is up for grabs and that's a biggie when you're as talented as Packers are. A big whiney choir all together.

I wish I could have stayed online after my post that befuddled you, Tar, and kept my train thought on track. But I'm a one line monster poster here at PR...always somethings draws me away from consecutive long posts....but that's, somehow, a good thing in my life!

BTW: I love your enthusiasm too, mate!

[Fritz]

I feel like kicking Kurt Schottenheimer.

[bobblehead]

I read the most interesting thing under a JS article the other day. If Calvin Johnson doesn't let go of that ball getting up, leading to the ridiculous call of no TD the bears miss the playoffs. We win the North and they lose the tiebreaker to the Giants. I guess you can apply that to any number of things that worked in their favor the entire way, but they were that close to missing the playoffs entirely.

[swede]

I read the most interesting thing under a JS article the other day. If Calvin Johnson doesn't let go of that ball getting up, leading to the ridiculous call of no TD the bears miss the playoffs. We win the North and they lose the tiebreaker to the Giants. I guess you can apply that to any number of things that worked in their favor the entire way, but they were that close to missing the playoffs entirely.

Well. we have a couple ways we could fix this.

Superman could fly backwards around the world really fast until time went back far enough to allow him to kick Calvin Johnson in the butt at half time and tell him to hang onto the ball.

The Enterprise could slide through a wormhole and correct an error from the future in which the Bears won the NFC North in 2010, an error which led to fire and brimstone coming down from the skies, rivers and seas boiling, forty years of darkness, earthquakes, volcanoes, the dead rising from the grave, human sacrifice, dogs and cats living together... and mass hysteria!

Or Green Bay can kick Bear ass all over the field on Sunday and win the game going away.

[bobblehead]

Well. we have a couple ways we could fix this.

Superman could fly backwards around the world really fast until time went back far enough to allow him to kick Calvin Johnson in the butt at half time and tell him to hang onto the ball.

The Enterprise could slide through a wormhole and correct an error from the future in which the Bears won the NFC North in 2010, an error which led to fire and brimstone coming down from the skies, rivers and seas boiling, forty years of darkness, earthquakes, volcanoes, the dead rising from the grave, human sacrifice, dogs and cats living together... and mass hysteria!

Or Green Bay can kick Bear ass all over the field on Sunday and win the game going away.

I'll take option 3 for $1000 Alex.

[AtlPackFan]

I know this isn't going to sit well with a lot of you but I would rather lose this week to the Bears than to have lost last week to the Falcons. Maybe its living here the past 15 years, watching the most fair weather fans I have ever witnessed (at least with professional sports) and then to have to listen to their superiority complex. Sorry Mission - not including you in that as I know you are an ardent Braves fan - but that is what I have experienced. Also, I guess being 15 years removed from living close to the FIB border I have lost some of my animosity toward the FIBs.

All that said, if they lose, I will be disappointed but not crushed. I picked them to go 9-7 and out of the playoffs before the injuries happened (shows what I know) so this playoff run -especially the win over the Falcons - has been a bonus for me.

But their not going to lose! Bear beat down commences in about 47 hours! Go Pack!!!

[Noodle]

That's kind of an interesting question, APF, which would have stung the most -- losing to the:

Iggles (yeah, kinda bad because then there would have been the BS "ARod can't win a playoff game" shite, but kinda ok because I was amazed the Pack made the playoffs with all the injuries);
the Falcons (not too bad for me, we'd have won a playoff game the previous week, I don't hate the Falcons, and we'd have the built-in excuse that ATL almost never loses at home);
or the Bears (the absolute worse thing, can't stand 'em, and wouldn't be able to stand having to get ripped for the next 40 years of my existence by Bears fans).

[Smidgeon]

That's kind of an interesting question, APF, which would have stung the most -- losing to the:

Iggles (yeah, kinda bad because then there would have been the BS "ARod can't win a playoff game" shite, but kinda ok because I was amazed the Pack made the playoffs with all the injuries);
the Falcons (not too bad for me, we'd have won a playoff game the previous week, I don't hate the Falcons, and we'd have the built-in excuse that ATL almost never loses at home);
or the Bears (the absolute worse thing, can't stand 'em, and wouldn't be able to stand having to get ripped for the next 40 years of my existence by Bears fans).

It is kind of ironic that because it's the Bears, people and fans (definitely including me) would rather see one fewer playoff victory (i.e. lose to the Falcons) than to see the Packers lose to the Bears...

[AtlPackFan]

It is kind of ironic that because it's the Bears, people and fans (definitely including me) would rather see one fewer playoff victory (i.e. lose to the Falcons) than to see the Packers lose to the Bears...

I would have rather been dipped naked in hot tar, rolled in shit-covered pigeon feathers and dropped on Peachtree Street during rush hour than have lost to the Falcons.

[Smidgeon]

I would have rather been dipped naked in hot tar, rolled in shit-covered pigeon feathers and dropped on Peachtree Street during rush hour than have lost to the Falcons.

Okay, okay. Except for you, who has a perfectly legitimate reason living near ATL.

[Freak Out]

I've never met Nutz but I just can't believe he's not rooting for the Packers.

[MJZiggy]

I've never met Nutz but I just can't believe he's not rooting for the Packers.

I have met Nutz and I just can't believe he's not rooting for the Packers.

[mmmdk]

I have met Nutz and I just can't believe he's not rooting for the Packers.

Nutz doesn't feel that the Packers has been the Brett & butter of things lately!

[bobblehead]

I think in time Nutz will come around. It might take a few years, but it will happen.

[Pugger]

There are folks like Nutz who will NEVER forgive TT/MM/Murphy for trading Favre to NY even if this regime wins a Super Bowl. I find this attitude rather sad, frankly.

[Tarlam!]

There are folks like Nutz who will NEVER forgive TT/MM/Murphy for trading Favre to NY even if this regime wins a Super Bowl. I find this attitude rather sad, frankly.

On the other hand Nutz, is the best friend you're ever likely to have if he is as loyal to his pals as he is to his heros/idols, don't you think? What saddens me is that he's obviously hurting still. I, too, have met Nutz, and at that time he bled G&G.

So Nutz has not only lost having his favourite player line up each week, he was also forced to watch said player self destruct and become the village idiot - and if that's not enough, he also lost the Pack in the deal.

If you knew the guy you'd be saddened by how deeply this has taken him aback. Well, I am.

[Brando19]

Poor Nutz....he can suck my nuts.