Packers Playoff Picture: Packers Beat Bears And They're In

They have Pope Brett on their side. We should have won that last game against them, total fluke we lost, and it will be sweet to beat them at home, then beat them in the post-season. The Bears, like the Packers, rely on positive QB play and a tough defense, except the Packers are more consistent in these areas. Every other phase of their game, like ours, is a bonus (sometimes a negative) and I’m sure we’re better at that too.

Losing Leonhard was one of the underrated injuries of the NFL season.

Loved that Kuhn did though against a pretty solid Giants line. Twice.

Either you’ve never seen him talk before, or you’re easily amazed. :-P

especially basketball

but he is god awful in picking assignments in the passing game. I don’t want to get to the point where when other teams see him in, they switch their brains to “here comes a run” mode. If he gets to his guy, that player is down and hit hard. He needs more playbook and coaching work from the backs coach.

The Saints play at Atlanta tonight, and host Tampa Bay next week. If the Saints lose both games and the Packers beat Chicago, then Green Bay, Tampa Bay, and New Orleans (and possibly New York Giants) would finish in a three- or four-way tie. What I’m seeing is that Green Bay would beat all the other teams on tie-breakers, regardless of whether NY Giants are in the mix.

if they haven’t bottomed out, yet. :)

What it means to us: The Bears are now comfortably ensconced in 2nd place, and cannot move down. They can move up, assuming they beat us and Atlanta loses at home to…Carolina. Pretty sure that’s not going to happen, so even if Lovie does run his starters out there, I can’t see them playing for very much. The fans and the coach may hate our team’s collective guts, but the players are the ones who’ll know that the game is meaningless – it’s not like they’ll face us until the NFCCG if they do lose. I’m calling the Pack by 2 TDs in this one.

The second reason we have to thank the Vikings is for knocking Mike Vick around a bit. He was visibly gimpy by the 4th quarter, and his mobility and accuracy were affected. Now, I’m not saying that he’ll still be hurting in two weeks’ time, but if there’s anything our team likes doing, it’s roughing up QBs. If we can put him on the turf in the first quarter as often as the Vikes did, well, let’s just say that our CBs have better hands than the Vikes’ CBs…

So thank you, Vikings, for doing us a solid.

But if our defense is able to carry over what they’ve been doing on the road, I like our chances.

Which is why we should be rooting for them to beat the ’queens and ’girls (good one, eh? :P).