It's Bears Week...Like No Other

[get louder at lambeau]

FWIW: Packers and Steelers both favored by 3.

That would be an amazing Super Bowl matchup.

[denverYooper]

it's gonna be a loooooong week.

Yup.

[Joemailman]

I wonder if MM will try to find a practice field with footing bad enough to duplicate what they will play on at Soldier Field.

[Tony Oday]

Thanks Jerry Jones for building the Packers such a nice place to play in!

[Tarlam!]

I wonder if MM will try to find a practice field with footing bad enough to duplicate what they will play on at Soldier Field.

This EXACT thought shot through my mind! Plus, I hope he let's 'em practice outdoors (Remember the Giants).

I kinda hate myself, because this is the matchup I voted for. Now it's here, I can feel the saliva drying up already and my hands are beginning to tremble. By the end of the week my tongue will be glued to the roof of my mouth, but it won't matter 'cause I won't be able to hold a coffee cup let alone keep any food down.

[Bossman641]

The field conditions have me worried. It really neutralizes the passing game and shrinks the talent gap between the Pack and Bears. MM will have to stay committed to the run and get Starks going.

[Tony Oday]

We will not win running...short slants and such folks!!!

[HarveyWallbangers]

I don't think field conditions neutralize the passing game. Actually, it gives OL and WRs the advantage. Snow, rain, and/or wind (especially) can neutralize the passing game though.

[Tarlam!]

My new sig says it all...

[Bossman641]

The WR can't run the routes with as much precision as they normally do. Everything is a step slower and they have to keep their feet underneath them on cuts. I watch the Bears almost every week. Week after week the visiting teams come out falling and slipping and don't adjust until the second quarter or so.

It also slows the pass rush. This obviously hurts us as well, but I'd rather have CM3 and Raji pressuring Cutler every other play.

[HarveyWallbangers]

I just have to disagree. It's slippery for both offense and defense. The offense has the advantage because they know where they are going. I think poor field conditions often favor the offense. Wind, snow, and rain are a different story. Now, maybe some teams adjust poorly to the conditions at Soldier Field, but we've played there enough that we don't normally have those problems.

[mission]

Been worried about the turf conditions too... hopefully they get their cleat lengths right and all that.

I wonder how much we "left behind" when we played them in week 17. You know MM tries to be tricky and maybe figured we'd see them again in the playoffs. Hopefully we see some new special "bear beater" schemes on offense this week.

Our WRs just gotta keep making plays and hang onto the football afterwards.

[mmmdk]

I think Nostradamus predicted something about this game; he foresaw something about a fellow called 'Hister'...yeah, that's right, that's Hester baby!

We'll all be watching the downfall of the "Third Reich" personafied in Hester/Hister and his Nazi Bear Sturmtruppen fagot team.

[MadtownPacker]

Just telll the WRs to go down when they are getting gang tackled and the O will be fine. Im cool with 5-10yd receiving bits and pieces versus fumbles for trying to gain an extra yard.

[vince]