More Banjo - Packers At Bears Wildcard Thread

[Joemailman]

Jordan Love - 24-46, 323, 4 TD, 0 INT

Romeo Doubs - 8 catches, 124 yards, 1 TD

Matthew Golden - 4 catches, 84 yards, 1 TD

Brandon McManus - 2 missed FG, 1 missed XP

Special teams gave up 99 return yards on 4 punts

Defense gives up 28 second half points

Bears 10-18 on 3rd downs

Discuss

[Joemailman]

Rasheed Walker with a truly horrendous game. If Tom had played, I wonder if Morgan would have replaced him.

[call_me_ishmael]

What a weird game. I’ll just say I think many overrated the DC. I think he’s fine, not terrible or anything but it seems like the team consistently allows a shit load of points.

The packers need more field tilters and better linemen. I suspect they will revamp the OL this offseason. It’s just time. It’s not good enough.

[call_me_ishmael]

Caleb Williams is weird man. He sure makes plays when it matters, at least against the Packers. What a throw on that 4th down. My god.

Safe to say McManus is gone.

Packers are good enough at the skill positions but bad in the trenches. Rebuild
Them!

[pbmax]

This game was just confirmation of the flaws we saw in the preseason and then injuries.

1. O Line is not cohesive. And Walker did not have a good game on the left. Bad timing after a reasonably good year by him.
2. Cornerbacks are short supply and Valentine is limited and prone to errors. They lack man to man skills save Nixon who isn't shut down.
3. Pass rush was better than expected this game but the Bears went max protect in second half and made it work. There is still a lack of pass rush outside of Parsons. Gary made one play on pressure that I saw.
4. WR still dropping balls.
5. TE without Kraft is just replacement level.
6. Walker is just lost in pass coverage after a run fake. He routinely doesn't get deep enough.
7. I don't know what was wrong with McManus. Two snaps looked too far into the holder's body but Mac made one of those. Then the next snap to the holder's hands got missed.
8. I never want to see a run on first down into 8 in a box again in my life.

[George Cumby]

I can't even be mad. Fucking great game. Packers win if Watson holds on to that last pass.

[Joemailman]

First time Packers have finished season with 5 straight losses since 1990.

[ThunderDan]

I can be mad.

MiLF shit the bad with 2nd half play calling.

We didn’t call one play action fake with 8 in the box during the 2nd half. Everyone was screaming that at the tv were I was at. And our brilliant coach couldn’t figure it out.

[bobblehead]

Football is a man's game. If you let the other team hit your QB in the helmet and throw you down out of bounds over and over without retaliating, you will lose 100%. The refs didn't call it and since you don't seem to mind it they continued not calling anything the Bears did. A crew with a reputation for throwing flags penalized the bears for 5 yards in a game where Love was hit helmet to helmet once and hit arm to helmet once clear as day. When we accept it the refs continue to not throw flags.

This team is soft. Super soft. Like I would be embarrassed to play on this team. I've changed my mind. I would fire LaFleur simply for his team playing like women.

[texaspackerbacker]

For once, I agree with CMI regarding Hafley - fairly good but overrated. If he goes somewhere else as a head coach, it wouldn't take too much to do better.

In the first half, our lame-assed O Line played over their heads. Our D Line which has been so weak against the run held up pretty good. And our horrendous pass defense got back to being about as bad as it has been. In the second half, the weaknesses that have plagued the team showed up, and our offensive skilled players couldn't overcome the weaknesses.

What happened to Trevon Diggs? He was in the first series, no mention of injury, then I didn't see him the rest of the game.

We really need to find a decent kicker before next season. McManus didn't lose the game by himself, but he certainly was a large part of it.

And we really need to get rid of Bisaccia.

[Bretsky]

First time Packers have finished season with 5 straight losses since 1990.

Another choke job exposing us for what we our.

Our CB's suck (thanks Gutebag)
Our Special Teams is not good enough
Jayden Reed---Do you job and catch the dam ball; when he dropped that pass it was game over
Flower--Sad offense in the 2nd half
Hafley- Sad defense in the 2nd half. But it's touch when you have no NLF cornerbacks

Not having Wyatt, Parsons, Tom, Jenkins, and Kraft left us pretty shy of talent to be in the playoffs

[call_me_ishmael]

They just fundamentally need more talent. They don’t have a field general to overcome it and beat the lesser disciplined teams anymore. They have a field tilter in Parsons but not another one. They need another star somewhere. I just don’t understand how the D can stink for 30 straight years essentially,

[Patler]

A fitting end to the season. This team never figured out how to close out games. Kind of amazing, really. Multi-score leads late in games; very dominating halves; even three quarters; multiple games with no punts; many leads with just a handful of minutes remaining. All ended in losses.

An amazing season, but not in a good way.

[pittstang5]

I'm glad the season is finally over. No more heartbreaks to have to worry about and there have been plenty this year.

I can't wait till next year to watch this team look really good, then have a shit show of a game, where they lose 10 players to significant injuries and shit the bed for the rest of the year. Some don't believe it, but this team has got to be one of the unluckiest teams in the league. What pisses me off even more is the the bears have been playing with a horseshoe up their ass all year. That defense is junk. Packers should have hung 35 points or more tonight.

Bah - Fuck this shit! I'll see ya all around draft time.

[pittstang5]

...and another thing, right now I don't even give a shit what they do with Lafleur or this coaching staff. Blow the whole thing up or don't. It won't matter, same thing will happen with another coach year after year after year.

However, emotions aside - someone's getting canned. If Lafleur stays, is it Bisaccia? Someone on D side? Someone on the O side?

Another question - Is Hafley gone? He won't be fired, but will he move on to a head coaching job? I think he will. Not because of his defenses, but because of the coach he is. Players love him and have you listened to him talk? He's great at press conferences. Teams are going to love him.