Official Bears Week Thread

[mraynrand]

Home divisional games are mustest of must wins.

[Joemailman]

bears have a good d (and pretty good o). so do det and minn (especially det). det may be the best team in the north right now. this is a must win game. the Packers aren't going to have a cake walk to the nfc north title. i was pulling for atl to beat det. nothing happens without winning the north.

With Bears top 2 WR's out for the year, they're throwing to their RB's and TE's a lot. Glennon isn't going downfield much. He's averaging less than 9 yards per completion. Tackling well is a must. Burnett and Josh Jones will be very busy.

[gbgary]

Home divisional games are mustest of must wins.

i wanted to add the bit of wisdom to my sig but for whatever reason it won't let me. know the thought was there though. lol

[gbgary]

MM when asked about the bears today: "I hope they're extremely dehydrated and working in pads today." *smirk*

lol

[Joemailman]

perhaps there is hope...

Rob Demovsky
ESPN Staff Writer

WR Randall Cobb (chest) and LT David Bakhtiari (hamstring) both returned to practice.

Defensive players Mike Daniels (hip), Kentrell Brice (groin), Jake Ryan (hamstring, concussion) and Nick Perry (hand) all returned to practice.
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Nick Perry practiced with a club on his surgically repaired right hand. Last year, it was his left hand, and he managed to play effectively with a similar cast.

[Joemailman]

Bulaga did not practice and will likely be out Thursday.

[pbmax]

perhaps there is hope...

I give Perry credit, has it even been a week since they probably pinned two bones together in his finger?

[pbmax]

Harlan posted Baranczyk's take on Monty elsewhere (that the Packers should work to find a complement to Monty immediately) but I wanted to flag another of his points: Blake Martinez had a measurable (and positive) impact on the game.

http://www.packersnews.com/story/sports/nfl/packers/baranczyk/2017/09/25/analysis-packers-need-more-support-ty-montgomery-run-game/700966001/

Blake Martinez had the best game of his relatively short NFL career Sunday.

The second-year linebacker finished second on the team in tackles (11), and his play against the run as the lone standard linebacker in the Packers’ nitro defense helped make the six-defensive-back personnel group work against a team with talented running backs.

Though the Bengals ran the ball well at times, overall Joe Mixon (3.4-yard average on 18 carries) and Jeremy Hill (3.3 yards on seven carries) didn’t control the game on the ground against the Packers’ undersized defense. Martinez played fast, and was all over the field.

Martinez also made one of the game’s big plays, on the first snap of overtime, when he knifed through the line and dropped Mixon for a two-yard loss. That set the tone for overtime and put the Bengals in an unfavorable down and distance (second and 12). Two plays later the Packers’ defense got a third-down stop and off the field.

Not much has separated Martinez from Jake Ryan, who didn’t play Sunday because of a hamstring injury and concussion. But with more play like Sunday, Martinez rarely will come off the field.

[mraynrand]

I give Perry credit, has it even been a week since they probably pinned two bones together in his finger?

He's used to it. He has more pins in his body than Hillary's Trump VooDoo doll.

[Rutnstrut]

Bulaga did not practice and will likely be out Thursday.

They would have been better off to keep Lang, ship Bulaga and find a youngster or 2 for tackle. They certainly would be no worse off. Bulaga is worthless.

[Rutnstrut]

I give Perry credit, has it even been a week since they probably pinned two bones together in his finger?

That's pretty tough, but not as impressive as JPP

[pbmax]

That's pretty tough, but not as impressive as JPP

Even JPP had a few months.

[Joemailman]

[run pMc]

So...Spriggs AND Murphy are on IR?
Edit: just read it in another post. UGH.

[pbmax]

Would also seem that Evans is practicing?