If anyone else caught it, early in the game after a penalty. He couldnt remember the down saying 2nd then 3rd then a mix of 2nd and 3rd and then finally 3rd while still holding two fingers up. He didnt work his mic right have the time and their was another call he fumbled his words with.

AdamA … you and all others who complain about this pass being ruled incomplete (and upheld after further review…) obviously have not read the rules (or to be 100% correct, the interpretations/ approved ruling on complete/incomplete passes) neither have you seen the official review segment with Mike Pereira on NFL total access, he has explained this situation a couple of times. I also think Mike Carey did an excellent job of explaining it on the field, yes he did screw up the rest of his anouncement, but there was aslo defensive offside on the play, and it is easy to get a bit confused, the important thing, they got the down and distance correct right away, before the ball was declared ready for play again.

The rule/approved ruling, clearly states, that a reciever going to the ground must maintain possession all the way to the ground (in other word, the ground can cause an incompletion) now, on this play, while Jennings clearly gets his second foot down in the endzone with his hands on the ball, imediatly upon that, the ball is knocked loose as the defenders tackles him, thereby a correct call. Now, on the tv replay, in SLOW-motion, it looks like a catch, in real time, it happens instantly (ps, the game is not played in slow-mo).
So according to the rule, this is correct all the way. You are of course, free to like or dislike this rule as any other.
But before you dislike it too much, let’s say this happened in the field of play, I’m quite sure you would like to have this ruled an incomplete pass instead of catch-fumble.
That is the reason the approved ruling is the way it is, to avoid cheap turnovers. It also makes it a much easier call for the officials, it takes out all judgement.

All in all, I think the officials worked this game very well, no missed big calls, and no ghost-calls, the total number of penalties were high, but acceptable, since they were all correct calls.

Now for the rest of the game, again, thank you defense ! the defense came through when needed. I would also like to extend some gratitude to Culter and C.Williams of the Bears, they made some really big mistakes helping the Packers win this one!

The offense in general, did not play a very good game, two possessions in the redzone in the first half ended in FGs and not TDs, the game should have been put away early in the 2nd qtr.
Grant had his best game (overall) of the season, which is good, but if we look away from that big first run (where the Bears D obviously blew some assignements) his numbers are not that great, but stil ok.
Rodgers did not play very well, holding the ball too long in certain situtations, especially that double fumble play, where Rodgers tried really hard to do a Garo Yepremian impression. There was also that situation were a Bears LB (Briggs or Hillenmeyer, don’t remember now..) came clean of a delayed blitzed, it could have been a read-blitz as well, that’s not important, the important part is there must have been either a blown blocking assignement by Havner or a horrible protection call by Rodgers, impossible for us to say which is correct. What happens is that Tauscher (and the rest of the line) clearly downblocks, pushing the d-line to the left, so that looks to be the sceem, then the whole rigth side is exposed, which means you need someone to hold that ground, either Havner did not hear the protection call or Rodgers called the wrong sceem.

The defense started out great, shutting down the Bears completly early in the game, yes they did fall into sleep-mode for a while in the 3rd qtr, which could have hurt much more vs a better team. They did wake up and get their heads on straight when they need too.
I’m a lot more worried about the offenses inability to put a game away when they have the opportunity, it’s been that way most of this season (and last season as well) this time it took a big interception and return for Collins to set up the final TD, but even after that the offense also failed to move the ball and put the final nail in the coffin.
Yes, there was also that missed 42-yd FG attempt, wheter or not there was tricky winds or if he expected the wind to blow the ball right to left, Crosby blew that one. Other than that, specialteams played ok for once.

This was the mirror of the first Detroit game against a team which is a notch or two above Detroit