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The Bears won because the Packers playcalling on offense and defense in the second half was the worst I've ever seen. The Packers played right into the Bears hands and let the Bears play their type of game.

You watched Borat over your favorite team? Wow. I watched the entire Notre Dame game on espn360 with my friend. I'm really sick, and I stayed up until midnight watching a game on a little laptop. That's loyalty. C'mon. Borat could wait.

League: So the Bears coaches get no credit for that? Lovie has had the Packers' number at Lambeau.

IrishR: I know. Bad Sneaky Pete! Bad, bad, fan... After the Cubs lost, I didn't want to risk any more disappointment. But in the end, I only missed the 3rd Quarter.

Yeah Pete, keepin the woman happy I guess because it would have to have been a much better movie than Borat, and Im a die hard Cubs fan whos been in deep depression all weekend! Great blog as always but I can tell you weren watching till the 4th if you honestly think Ron Turner did a good job, he had one good play call tthe ENTIRE game, the touchdown to Olsen very easily could have been picked or batted down, so Im not voting for him for coordinator of the year just yet, but on a Borat note Brett Favre's mustache still smells of Madden's testes!

It was a classic Bears/Pack game except for the fact that the Pack burned the Bears for 341 in the 1st half.

I'm not sure why MM went so conservative in the 2nd half w/ only a 10 point lead...the WR spread offense was working in all games prior to this one but they abandoned what was working.

I'll give the Bears coaches some credit, but honestly, you say Lovie has had the Packer's # at Lambeau? So the 1st half the Bears were just goading the Pack into a false sense of security? If he had the Packer's #, he would've played it the entire game rather than the 1st half. Sorry, again, some credit goes to the Bears coaches & Tillman but the Packers were up by 10 despite those 2 fumbles prior to halftime & should've been trying to score in the 2nd half than preserve the lead.

sorry, was meant to read "if he had the Packer's #, he would've played it the entire game rather than the 2nd half".

and Curses for the Illini beating the Badgers too!

At least the one saving grace is a satisfying sweep of the Cubs from the playoffs.


Baaaaaaaah!

Lovie Smith is undefeated as a head coach at Lambeau.
The Badgers suck also!

Kids, kids... Do I have to separate you two?

If I have to stop this blog, so help me... :P

Z: Yes, Borat was a little disappointing after all the hype, but it didn't suck. I guess that's why we kept switching back to the game. The gf wanted to watch the Bears once we saw they tied it up. I am not voting Turner coordinator of the year yet, I was just saying he called a nice game. And yes, I also said he was driving me crazy in the first half. But, by being stubborn and conservative, he laid the foundation for that huge TD pass. It's nice to see the commitment to the run paying dividends at the end of the game like it did.

PackBrew42: The Bears were lucky to survive the first half down a mere 10 points. Lovie knew it & his players knew it. The coaching staff made some adjustments, and the Bears picked up the intensity a bit, and they pulled off the upset. Good coaches aren't always in control of a game, but hopefully they can keep their team *in* a game until the fourth quarter. Then anything can happen. I missed the 3rd quarter, so I didn't notice the Packers playing conservatively. I would think the pick by Urlacher signified a certain *lack* of conservativeness. (Is that a word?) Favre certainly wasn't thinking conservatively when he tossed that pass against the grain. Anyway...

My biggest point was the Bears owe Charles Tillman their season right now. Without him, the score at halftime is probably 31-7. No way the Bears would've come back from that. No way.

RE: The Illini. Typical Big Ten football. The bottom feeders seem to exist only to spoil the top guns' seasons... I don't know what to make of that game. Were the Badgers overrated, or were the Illini underrated? Hm. A little of both, maybe? I dunno.

Badgers are essentially overrated and Illini underrated (though they were ranked 27th going into this game).

Badgers have been living dangerously since the 1st week of the CF season and haven't convincingly beat anyone. Their superb D from last year has been MIA (they didn't really lose anyone on D) all year and give up big plays too easily.

As for Favre's 1st pick, the play call was still in the conservative area but Favre being who he is, will make those against the grain throws.

Honestly though, before this game, I figured Favre is coming due for one of his boneheaded throws.

I saw the replay and it looked like Favre never even saw Urlacher.

You know, this has nothing to do with anything, but I was saying to my gf during the game: "If I could take one player from any other team and put him on the Bears, I would take Brett Favre."

Can you imagine? Is it blasphemy to speak of such things? ;)

The Bears won? Gee I was only listening to Michaels and Madden preach love of Brett Favre and I thought the score was 41-20 Pack.
Seriously, give the Bears credit for keeping on when all should have been lost last night. And high props to Tillman for those two strips. As far as Turner's play calling, not so much.
Good post Pete. Gloating allowed. (You're not wearing a Borat bathing suit today, are you???)

Well, all I would have to do really is point to the poster some individual in the Lambeau crowd listing all Bears QB during Favre's reign in GB to point out how lousy and inconsistent Bears QBs have been for well over a decade.

Bronx: I hear you about Madden, Michaels, and Favre. I understand why people love to watch him play, but enough is enough already. I guess I should revise my opinion about Turner to say, "He did a good job with that ONE CALL at the end of the game." Especially since I missed the 3rd quarter. And no, no Borat bathing suit today. It would be a gross violation of the dress code at work. And I do mean gross... ;)

PackBrew42: You bring up another good point. I am SO sick and tired of seeing that graphic when the Bears play the Packers. Yes, we all know Chicago has had major issues at QB ever since McMahon left, stop beating the dead horse already. Geez, who brought that up anyway? Oh. I did. Dang it. :)

Apparently though there are people in the US that don't know how cursed the Bears are with QBs so FOX, ABC/ESPN, CBS, NBC feel they need to remind their cameramen during games to "find the guy in the stands w/ the list of Bears QBs during Favre's tenure".

I loved, despite the loss, the chant going up "Bears still suck"...I've never heard that at Lambeau before. Also loved the guy w/ the poster "Madden please circle me but not my g/f because she's a Bears fan". Madden, in his loyalty & desire to be Favre's man-child, did so.

Yeah, and if they don't find the guy in the stands, they come up with their own graphic. I'm sure it's filed in their archives so they can just update it with the latest QB... Gah! Nothing like seeing your team on prime time just so the commentators can rub salt in your team's wounds.

There was also a neat shot of a couple and the guy holding a sign saying "My girlfriend has issues." He was a Packer fan and she was a Bears fan. Or was that the same one you were talking about?

RE: Man Child. It's funny, maybe I just didn't notice because I was very young, but I don't remember Madden gushing that much over Walter Payton. And if *anyone* was a Madden-type player it would've been Sweetness. Where's the justice? :(

Sneaky, for some reason my Bear co-workers are hardly haggling me about the Bears victory....I am, to say the last, very suprised.

I think it's because we know the Bears got away with one, and still have a LOT OF WORK TO DO!

And perhaps we all know the December 23rd date at Soldiers Field could very well decide which team wins the NFC North.

No need to get all in your faces yet... ;)

I learned a lesson last year....

http://www.fannation.com/blogs/post/935

You always watch the game....even if you have to turn your head for a minute...or run to the toilet to vomit from the utter stench of things...you always watch the game.

That being said, I know the feeling...this Bears offense has given it to me many times...it's like watching the Office (British version, less so with the American version)...so scenes are just so embarassing you have to turn away for a second...that's the Bears offense for you.

Good point! Good blog!

I turned *that* game off TWICE I was so disgusted with Rex and the offense. And I had promised myself that I wouldn't turn the Bears off ever again after the famous "Clevland Browns/Mike Brown" game... ;)