Packers Game Ball: Packers Lose To The Bears, 20-17

That was a thoroughly infuriating game. Even though the Bears did very little to win, you can’t expect to win a game where you have 17 penalties. Jay Cutler can still suck it, by the way. What an asshole.

He gave up a huge pass to knox, dropped a pick, and had a PI penalty

Tha’ts a given. We squarly lost this game ourselves. We only had 3 penalties in the first 2 games, so I believe (even knowing of the issues the past couple years) we can and will rebound from this. We know Chicago is beatable, because we outplayed them. Lets keep in mind this was a loss on the road, in their house, and we lost it ourselves. We can’t say there’s a better team than us right now. I firmly believe we are a better team then Chicago. The next game is @ Lambeau. It’s our HOUSE! Hopefully the team remembers this game, and remember is clearly that they lost this game on their own. The season isn’t over, you win some, you lose some. We lost on the road, to a good team, with 17 penalties.

I’m going to lose it.

It’s certainly a possible outcome of this season, but I doubt there’s ever been a team that was undisciplined enough to commit 17 penalties in one game that went on to win the Super Bowl. Just sayin’

We lost a heart breaker too against Atlanta. Terrible defense, 200 rushing yds allowed, TOP 45 mins for Atl, 27 for us. 3 turnovers and couldn’t defend on 3rd down. And chip shot missed FG.

     Keep your heads up and play well next week. You still have a great team!

When you have 18+ penalties, allow a punt return for a TD and have a chip shot FG blocked on ST… You just can’t win that way!!! Bares bearly won even w/ all that. What an crappy game by the Packers… Bares win Packers lose, BUT… They still have to come to Lambeau!!! If they win in GB, they deserve the division… But that hasn’t happened…

17 penalties for them, almost as many penalty yards for them as Cutler has passing yards, winning turnover ratio, blocked field goal, a defense that almost forced a fumble on every tackle in the 4th quarter until they did, roughing the passer call in their favor, Packers dropping endzone passes, ecetra.

Enjoy it while it lasts Bears.

which it does. A good team would have murdered the Packers when they made all those kinds of mistakes.

However, I’m concerned that this season will be marred by poor special teams play, lack of a running game, and penalties. All of those demons came out tonight, and simply put, you don’t get anywhere near the Lombardi Trophy losing 1 of the 3 facets of the game + being undisciplined + being one dimensional in one of the other 2 facets of the game.

That was still a close game. Not many teams can be good enough to commit that many penalties and still only lose by 3 points.

was Clifton getting a false start (or holding, but I think it was a false start) in the 2nd quarter. We were up 7 or 10 to 0 and we were driving hard and fast, about ready to really begin to run away with it. That penalty just sucked the life out the the offense. I effing hate undisciplined football.

When you have no f**king running game? TT better find a way to get Lynch, like now damnit!

Does he have to shoot McCarthy’s dog or what?

We always do better as underdogs. Hopefully this game will put a fire under the team like the Tampa game last year and help them put their shit together. Im still not worried about the season yet.

Packers Points – 17
Packers Penalties – 17

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Packers FS Nick Collins was seen throwing an unknown object at a Bears’ fan while leaving the field following the Packers’ 20-17 loss. Fox 6 Sports Milwaukee is reporting that Collins’ was provoked by a fan who spat his way and called him a racist expletive. The station reportedly has video of the incident that can’t be shown till Tuesday due to NFL guidelines. Stay tuned for more.

Tell you what guys, all we need is a running game. The other issues were obviously magnified due to the lack of Grant. A decent running game, and that game isn’t even close.

Horrible horrible game, yet the Bears didn’t look much better, Cutler should have thrown 4 picks and three were bail out calls. I think a running game fixes it. If you have a hard rusher like Lynch then it would have open up play action, which if u noticed in the first quarter of a roll to the right side he had Jennings all the way.

Also i was at the game with my Rodgers jersey on and only one guy tried to fight me….i think it was one of the refs…did they hate us tonight or what?

I was upset last night and going to work amongst all Bear fans is rough today, I’m the only Packer fan around, blech.

My hope is, the Bears have confidence from this game, get overconfident and the Giants beat them next week. Hopefull this is like the San Fran game last year and the Pack get it together.

They “rack discoprine”….. but I think one of the ending PI calls could have gone either way, the one they called on Burnett at the end. Anybody else see it and maybe think the Bears WR could have been called for doing the same? That really ticked me off. But Duh Bears are thinking they won the Super Bowl by beating us by 3 measly points. Wait until they gotta come to Lambeau in January when it’s nice and cold. Sucky thing is, being in Central IL, I gotta hear it from the retards until then.

Come no MM & TT, get us some help.

McCarthy playing for the field goal on two drives where the Packers were already within range and 3rd and long. Your quarterback is Aaron freaking Rodgers. Why not give him a chance to get you more than three points on a drive? Instead he calls little dink plays down the middle to set up an easy FG for Crosby. That he made one and one was blocked is not the point. Why not try to get six points on the drive with one of the best QBs in the NFL??

when is someone (McCarthy) going to be held accountable for all the penalties and the horrendous special teams play? How many times have we listened to him say this is “unacceptable” and needs to be “fixed” and then he does nothing? It’s getting pretty old after 4 years…

With all the blaming of the refs going on, I thought I was in the Daily Norseman. You guys sound like Viqueen fans.

I don’t even know where to begin really. There’s plenty of blame to go around. I think the only guy who really played well for us was Rodgers.

The special teams unit of 2008 and 2009 came back, and came back strong. How can you go offsides on a kickoff? I mean seriously, this is the NFL right? That rarely happens in pop warner football. Doing so in the NFL is just unacceptable. Mathsay’s line drive punt to Hester was terrible too. It gave them great field positon, switched the momentum, and really was the main reason they ended up scoring a TD in my opinion. A blocked field goal too, seriously? I mean come on. Sitton got pancaked, and Peppers basically stepped through untouched. And worst of all was the choice of Bonehead McCarthy to ACTUALLY punt the ball to Devin Hester. Yeah, it was actually a really, really good punt by Mathsay but it’s Devin Hester. You know, the guy who already has the 3rd most punt return TD’s in history despite only being in the league for like what, 5 years? Just stupid.

But not only did the special teams of old return, so did the penalty happy team of old. 17 penalties, seriously? I think I saw last night that, that’s the most in Packer history. Just embarrassing. Daryn “drive killer” Colledge was in top shape last night. Does anyone else notice that Colledge always seems to make a crucial mistake at a crucial time? The holding call on Tauscher that negated the Finley TD was huge too. I mean, Peppers wasn’t even relevant to the play, or even really close to Rodgers. What the hell is the need to hold him? Just a really, really stupid play by Tauscher. The more I saw he and Clifton play, the more I think both of them are done. I’m convinced Buluga and Lang are more capable then both of them, as well as Colledge. Those two need to be in there starting somewhere.

Do I even need to mention the defensive penalties? It was as if the defense was trying to give the Bears offense as much help as they could. It’s hard to fault Zombo for his hit because he was just making a hit. It’s not as if he purposely hit him helmet to helmet, and if it were up to me that hit, and the one on Rodgers shouldn’t have been called at all but obviously it’s not. Collins slamming Forte to the ground is just unacceptable though. I mean seriously!? At that crucial point in the game? Not too mention the him dropping that INT on the Bears scoring drive. There’s no reason he shouldn’t hold onto to that ball. Burnett’s PI was huge too. It’s just ashame he didn’t just turn around and look, because he was in perfect positon AND had help from Collins.

I don’t know, sometimes I just think a large portion of our staff and players don’t have brains, or maybe just don’t know how to use them. Did anybody else wanna kill somebody every time Mr. Prevent—oops I mean Dom Capers rushed 3-4 and dropped the rest back into coverage? I mean I don’t know about you guys but too me it’s pretty clear that, that NEVER works for us. We don’t play good zone defense whatsoever, and we don’t ever seem to generate enough of a pass rush. It’s just a recipe for disaster really.

I mean nearly every time we brought pressure on Cutler he made a stupid, ill-advised throw. The INT early on, two dropped INTs by Collins, the INT by Barnett negated by a Zombo penalty, the INT negated by a Burnett penalty. I’m sure there are more but those are just some instances of the top of my head. Cutler showed last night that his decision making still really hasn’t improved at all. If you pressure him he WILL make mistakes. But if drop everyone into coverage and give him all day in the couple he WILL make you pay for it, just like any other good Qb will. I don’t know, I’m starting to think the real issue with our pass defense is Capers coverage schemes, as opposed to the players.

I don’t know, I just sort of feel like I got myself all jacked up for no reason. Nothing has changed really, and we have nobody but Thompson and most of all McCarthy to blame for it. McCarthy needs to needs to be held accountable for our special teams and peanlty problems. It’s just unacceptable. If we have even 10 penalties instead of 17, which is still too many, we easily win that game. Not too mention if we just simply punt the ball out of bounds as opposed to actually punting it to Hester. Again, just so stupid.

And if it wasn’t clear before, it should be now. We need more defensive line depth and we need a running back. Yes, Ted Thompson, I’m looking at you. Go get it done.

My condolences.

On the other hand, it’s now fairly clear who received the shotgun the Cowboys had been using to shoot ourselves in the foot.

Here’s hoping you can get rid of it sooner than we did.

So uh….I have no idea why ESPN did not show that INT that was ruled incomplete when the play was called for holding (the one before the Olsen catch). That was extremely fishy and weird…..then again Cutler was nearly sacked and they showed Clay Matthews, who wasn’t involved in the play.

Well, on a positive note, does anybody wanna dispute Rodgers being an elite Qb? If hearing it from Gruden, Young, and Jaws isn’t enough, his play should have been. He led us down the field to score a TD, showing some toughness doing so (running it in despite cramping up). And I’d bet my left nut that he would have gotten us some points on our last drive had Jones not fumbled that ball. He was really, really good. If we could fix our offensive line problems, it wouldn’t matter that our defense won’t be able to stop good passing teams again this season.

I was going to do more of a humor entrenched fan post on how to beat yourself up in a game that the other team had no business winning at all. I am usually pretty fair, but this game didn’t warrant being fair when you see your team play like crap and let an obviously inferior team win.

From an article on 620 WTMJ, Jay Sorgi writes,

Here’s the litany:

1) 10:03 left, first quarter – pass interference on Woodson. Thankfully, no points scored on that drive, but only because of Robbie Gould’s missed field goal.

2) 5:41 left, first quarter – false start on Clifton. Green Bay overcame that flag, as Rodgers found Jennings for a touchdown.

3) 4:26 left, first quarter – offsides on Bishop…on a kickoff. A KICKOFF? I haven’t seen that call in years. You see that in pee wee football, not the NFL.

4) 4:01 left, first quarter – face mask on Matthews. The Packers thankfully didn’t pay for it, as an interception by Martin made up for it.

5) 6:02 left, second quarter – holding on Colledge. That wiped out an eight yard run.

6) 3:55 left, second quarter – illegal block on Martin. A 22 yard return wiped out.

7) 14:55 left, third quarter – illegal formation on Clifton. A five-yard pass to Lee negated.

8) 9:18 left, third quarter – holding on Sitton. Another five yard gain, a run by Rodgers, negated.

9) 7:25 left, third quarter – holding on Tauscher. Not just 15 yards lost on a pass to Finley, but a touchdown.

10) 1:50 left, third quarter – false start on Tauscher. Almost no yardage lost.

11) 1:50 left, third quarter – false start on Tauscher. Ditto.

12) :24 left, third quarter – delay of game on Rodgers. It turned a third and 1 into a third and 6, which went incomplete.

13) 13:56 left, fourth quarter – false start on Clifton. Made up for with a 14 yard gain on second and 12.

14) 6:45 left, fourth quarter – roughing the passer on Zombo. That canceled an interception by Barnett, and the drive turned into a tying field goal for Chicago.

15) 6:34 left, fourth quarter – unnecessary roughness on Collins, helping to lead to the field goal.

16) 2:33 left, fourth quarter – intentional grounding on Rodgers, on a drive which led to the game-turning turnover.

17) 1:51 left, fourth quarter – pass interference on Burnett, negating an interception by Collins that would have saved the game.

18) :04 left, fourth quarter – illegal forward pass on Driver, negating a chance at a Cal-Stanford miracle lateral play.

Total yards in penalties: 152.
Total offensive yards lost beyond the penalties themselves: 55.
Points loss by Green Bay or gained by Chicago because of penalties: 13.

Embarrassment to the Packers, a team picked by many as the best in the National Football League: immeasurable.

I still might write up a fan post. There is still a need to get better ST play and put a damper on the penalties. I am not worried so much because I think have 18 penalties is a bit fluky. There is more importantly a talented team under the mental mistakes, a team that is better than their performance on Monday night. It just goes to show you that you still have to show up and play. A team can play their way to victory, but just as easily play their way out of the game.