Let's talk about being inconsistent.
By tknup on Dec 23, 2007 in Lead Story, NFL
The Bears.
They dominated.
They dominated twice vs the Packers.
But they can’t win many other games. How good is Kyle Orton? Well, he did win this week. I believe he is the best of the three QB’s the Bears have started. time will tell.
Today, Brian Urlacher returned an interception for a touchdown for the first time in his career, Adrian Peterson ran for 102 yards, and the Chicago Bears beat the Packers 35-7 on a frigid Sunday afternoon. The loss wiped out the Packers’ shot at home-field advantage throughout the playoffs.
This author was OH SO WRONG. I wrote a few days ago about how Favre was going to go nuts and defeat the Bears and do outlandish offensive things to them. DUH. Wrong again.
Favre was at his worst on a bone-chilling, windy and at times snowy afternoon, and the Packers (12-3) took their most lopsided loss of the season.
He passed for just 9 yards in the first half and 153 overall, giving him 4,058 this season and putting him over the 4,000-yard mark for the fifth time.
The Packers needed to win this game, beat Detroit next week and have Dallas lose to Washington to capture the No. 1 seed. Instead, it goes to the Cowboys, with Green Bay locked in at No. 2.
he Bears blocked two punts by Jon Ryan, who also dropped a snap and booted a 9-yarder.
The Packers had gone 12 years and 929 punts without a block before the Bears knocked one down in the second quarter. More damaging was Charles Tillman’s block midway through the third quarter. Graham recovered at the 7 and ran it in for a 28-7 lead.
Early in the fourth quarter, Urlacher juggled the ball after it hit his chest and then returned it 85 yards up the right sideline.
The Bears (6-9) had little to celebrate this season, but they got some consolation by knocking off their archrivals twice. This, by itself, will be enough for Bears fan to be happy….. beating the Packers will be there cry all winter. Kinda reminds me of the Cubs one… “wait til next year!”
Bears won’t care about not making the playoffs. “we beat Green Bay twice”… Who cares.
Thank God the Bears are out of playoffs!
rodney21 | Dec 23, 2007 | Reply