Week 3: 2010: Official Packers -v- Bears Game Thread

[vince]

I still can't believe Jones fumbled that fucking ball.

Boom. There's plenty of blame to go around, but that is unbelievable.

McCarthy should have had them let the Bears score at the end to give Rodgers a chance, but those calling for McCarthy's head at this point are misguided in my opinion.

[Carolina_Packer]

Hopefully it's as motivating as the Tampa game was last year. A loss is always a combination of factors. It does start with the top. There are key cracks in our roster that get exposed, which shows what the team did the previous year to address the issues of the previous years. Shawn Slocum is handed a lot of young guys to coach up on special teams. That said, if the organizational philosophy is to turn over fringe roster spots to find better talent, then you have to have a guy who can coach up young players in a hurry and make them mature quickly. That effort did not look very mature. There were some good plays made on both offense and defense, but the mistakes overall killed us. Not converting a few of those long drives into points was killer too. Painful to lose a game that you had a very good chance to win. You get what you deserve based on your effort.

[mission]

I still can't believe Jones fumbled that fucking ball.

Boom. There's plenty of blame to go around, but that is unbelievable.

McCarthy should have had them let the Bears score at the end to give Rodgers a chance, but those calling for McCarthy's head at this point are misguided in my opinion.

No one except James Jones was going to stop #12 on that drive. He looked awesome tonight.

[PackerTimer]

I still can't believe Jones fumbled that fucking ball.

Boom. There's plenty of blame to go around, but that is unbelievable.

McCarthy should have had them let the Bears score at the end to give Rodgers a chance, but those calling for McCarthy's head at this point are misguided in my opinion.

And I'm not calling for his head but why did he challenge the recovery? It was obvious and it cost us a timeout. Really, really bad decision to challenge that call.

[denverYooper]

Sigh.

[digitaldean]

Yes, discipline or lack thereof, does come down on the coaches. But the players need to bear the brunt of this as well.

If we had ANY semblance of a REAL running game and cut out the dumb a** penalties it's a cakewalk. The Packers DO need to get somebody NOW.

Never been a Jones fan before tonight. Rather would have Nelson as #2 WR after Driver retires. What a great night for Finley wasted too.

[RashanGary]

I don't know why but Im not really that mad. I guess cause they didn't really beat us and we gave them the damn game.

Yeah. The Packers have a ton of talent. They looked like the better team. Last year they were extremely young. It took them until the end of the season to really click.

This year we're young, but I don't picture it taking as long to really get going. I think we'll come out of this fine.

A win would have been much, much better, but we're still a great team. Tough divisional game.

[Carolina_Packer]

I still can't believe Jones fumbled that fucking ball.

Boom. There's plenty of blame to go around, but that is unbelievable.

McCarthy should have had them let the Bears score at the end to give Rodgers a chance, but those calling for McCarthy's head at this point are misguided in my opinion.

And I'm not calling for his head but why did he challenge the recovery? It was obvious and it cost us a timeout. Really, really bad decision to challenge that call.

Yeah, that was a very bad challenge. Sure, if that call was going to win or lose the game, then you challenge because you have no choice, but why waste a valuable penalty. We still had a chance at that point, even with Jones' costly fumble. There's a lot to clean up, but I think the Lions will be just what the doctor ordered.

[sheepshead]

RE. Sheepshead's call for McCarthy's head: I'm not ready to fire him, but the penalties have been a consistent problem with McCarthy's teams. Tonight was just worse than usual, and no, I can't blame the refs. This team cannot contend for a Super Bowl with this propensity for penalties. A disciplined team would have won tonight. Lots of time to fix things, but there's some stuff to be worked on.

Im not either, but I have never been sold on the guy. I thought long ago we had one of the best GMs in football and a very mediocre HC. But we have been dealing with this very problem for 3 seasons. There are guys that have roomed that sideline that would never, ever have put up with this crap for this long.

[Fosco33]

Three words... what the fuck

Blocked fg after a long drive. 2 shitty punts (one for a TD), kickoff out of bounds, numerous dropped INTs, 17 penalties (Tausch looked awful; db rookies were exposed), fumble at the end just capped off a frustrating game.

M3 needs to right the penalites and in a hurry. A few aggressive penalties are ok - but jesus - 152 yards of penalties. Christ - Cutler only threw for 221...

[imscott72]

Packers just got flagged for holding in the showers..Wow..FU refs..

[vince]

I don't know why but Im not really that mad. I guess cause they didn't really beat us and we gave them the damn game.

Yeah. The Packers have a ton of talent. They looked like the better team. Last year they were extremely young. It took them until the end of the season to really click.

This year we're young, but I don't picture it taking as long to really get going. I think we'll come out of this fine.

A win would have been much, much better, but we're still a great team. Tough divisional game.

Youth hurt tonight. Zombo and Burnett's penalties were huge.

[gbgary]

not worried about it. this will motivate everyone even more. it will get tts attention too. the bears lucked out here. they're shit but it's a rivalry game and this happens. we dominated this game. just a bump in the road. relax everyone.

[Fosco33]

Bright spots....

3 sacks for the D (none on Arod)
Held Forte for 29 yards on 11 carries (including a 12 yarder)
Arod throws for 319 yards (and a nothing INT)
Finley has another 100 yard receiving game
Defense had a key 4th down stop to save a TD
Dominated time of possession
Punter averaged 50 yards


Dark spots....
plenty

[Badgerinmaine]

I still can't believe Jones fumbled that fucking ball.

Boom. There's plenty of blame to go around, but that is unbelievable.

McCarthy should have had them let the Bears score at the end to give Rodgers a chance, but those calling for McCarthy's head at this point are misguided in my opinion.

And I'm not calling for his head but why did he challenge the recovery? It was obvious and it cost us a timeout. Really, really bad decision to challenge that call.

Yeah, that was a very bad challenge. Sure, if that call was going to win or lose the game, then you challenge because you have no choice, but why waste a valuable penalty. We still had a chance at that point, even with Jones' costly fumble. There's a lot to clean up, but I think the Lions will be just what the doctor ordered.

I'll cut him a little slack on it--if it had been reversed, that would have turned the game around, and there weren't likely to be any more chances to use the challenge (I think it came with 2:16 to go, and the booth calls challenges after 2:00). I can see why they tried it but I wished at the time and wish now they hadn't.