NFL Wild Card Round: Packers @ Bears on January 10th at 7:00 PM

[GAME05]

Policy, in case you're reading this, please know this isn't just over the top reaction right after a loss.

[Sixtolezcano]

1 minute ago, LouisEly said:

I don't think you can argue with the special teams part.

Should have had four more points.

Total team collapse, starting with the head coach. We will see what Policy is made of these next couple of days.

 

[Samurai Bucky]

McManus makes the kicks and it is a different story.  Period.

LaFleur is not the issue here.

[yourout]

Just now, HarryDoyle said:

The reason for that is the offense could not stay on the field and give them a rest. This loss is on the offense and McAnus.

Lafleur's constant misuse of timeouts cost them in the end too.

[Sixtolezcano]

1 minute ago, Samurai Bucky said:

McManus makes the kicks and it is a different story.  Period.

LaFleur is not the issue here.

Lol

 

[OldSchoolSnapper]

4 minutes ago, Jopal78 said:

Yeah, but they put up 431 yards and Love threw for 4 scores, and Williams gave them 2 turnovers. Defense and Special Teams handed them the loss. 

Those turnovers he gave them really have asterisks. He threw them both on 4th down, one was a punt and on the other he tossed up a chance because he was gonna get sacked. If you are gonna throw picks, throw those. But he didn't really hurt them. 

Bigger story was the 3 gifts from God that we didn't lose. The Watson fumble. The lineman fumble, and the Jacobs fumble. 

[homer]

If they keep LaFleur, which all signs say they will, then do the following:

- fire Bisaccia

- get a new kicker

- improve O Line depth. Paper-thin if Tom is out.

 

At a minimum, that's what should happen. They also need corners, an edge rusher, and maybe an RB in the draft.

[OldHeidelberg]

Just now, homer said:

If they keep LaFleur, which all signs say they will, then do the following:

- fire Bisaccia

- get a new kicker

- improve O Line depth. Paper-thin if Tom is out.

 

At a minimum, that's what should happen. They also need corners, an edge rusher, and maybe an RB in the draft.

Do you think he gets extension after that game? I am still processing this but holy crap hard to see that right now.   

[adambr2]

5 minutes ago, Samurai Bucky said:

McManus makes the kicks and it is a different story.  Period.

LaFleur is not the issue here.

This has gotta be tongue in cheek.

This is not a first time occurrence. Missed kicks just happened to be one of the symptoms today. It could have just as easily been something different. It could be anything. But it’s always something.

[Sixtolezcano]

1 minute ago, adambr2 said:

This has gotta be tongue in cheek.

This is not a first time occurrence. Missed kicks just happened to be one of the symptoms today. It could have just as easily been something different. It could be anything. But it’s always something.

Only constant is MLF.

[yourout]

6 minutes ago, Sixtolezcano said:

Lol

 

MLF is among the worst game managers in the NFL. He probably be fine if he was just an offensive coordinator where he didn't have to make in game management decisions.

[Jopal78]

10 minutes ago, HarryDoyle said:

The reason for that is the offense could not stay on the field and give them a rest. This loss is on the offense and McAnus.

The Packers QB threw 46 passes, with 323 yards and 4TDs. I agree Jacobs is a stiff and made them one  dimensional. But time of possession was 27 minutes to 32 minutes. With 11 possessions for the Packers and 10 for the Bears. 
 

Hafley had no answers for the scramble drill by Willaims all season long, and McManus missed 3 kicks that NFL kickers should make 

[homer]

1 minute ago, OldHeidelberg said:

Do you think he gets extension after that game? I am still processing this but holy crap hard to see that right now.   

I guess it depends on if Policy thinks this one game is representative of something larger. I'm in the minority, I'm sure, but I think this one is on Gute. That offensive line was pathetic without Tom. 

[LouisEly]

It's easy to fire someone.

If you do, and you have a team with a winning record, you better know who you think is clearly better.  (And it's not Harbaugh, he missed the playoffs six of the last 13 years.)

Can always end up with the next Ray Rhodes or Mike Sherman.

[OldSchoolSnapper]

I wouldn't even have kicked the FG on 4th and 15. I would have pulled out my favorite play for 16 yards and run it. I didn't think that FG provided any value to them even had it gone in. Just didn't like the call at all. I was frankly ok with the miss as I thought it might make the Bears content to kick and tie the game. 

At least publicly they've said they're discussing an extension with LaFleur. I don't know why, but they are. They also said he's not being evaluated on tonight's game. I just don't know how you can ignore the trend here. This has become the identity and that is on the coach. 

They are comedic at this point though, they've become a league-wide joke. I think they could dig up Lombardi and put Ron Wolf in a time warp to 1994 and it wouldn't be enough. 

 

[Sixtolezcano]

1 minute ago, Jopal78 said:

The Packers QB threw 46 passes, with 323 yards and 4TDs. I agree Jacobs is a stiff and made them one  dimensional. But time of possession was 27 minutes to 32 minutes. With 11 possessions for the Packers and 10 for the Bears. 
 

Hafley had no answers for the scramble drill by Willaims all season long, and McManus missed 3 kicks that NFL kickers should make 

AND, MLF had no answers to turn around the offensive for the second straight Bears game.

 

[OldSchoolSnapper]

2 minutes ago, yourout said:

MLF is among the worst game managers in the NFL. He probably be fine if he was just an offensive coordinator where he didn't have to make in game management decisions.

Dude, you forget. He has Rich Bisaccia to help with game management. 

[yourout]

1 minute ago, OldSchoolSnapper said:

Dude, you forget. He has Rich Bisaccia to help with game management. 

Good point. That reason alone is enough to give him the boot.

[OldSchoolSnapper]

1 minute ago, LouisEly said:

It's easy to fire someone.

If you do, and you have a team with a winning record, you better know who you think is clearly better.  (And it's not Harbaugh, he missed the playoffs six of the last 13 years.)

Can always end up with the next Ray Rhodes or Mike Sherman.

This would matter if LaFleur was a good coach. I don't think he is. I think he's a fine OC who got in over his head as a HC and has a resume made pretty by #12. 

[GAME05]

Instead of a halftime speech Matt LaFleur murders a puppy in front of everyone.

[yourout]

2 minutes ago, LouisEly said:

It's easy to fire someone.

If you do, and you have a team with a winning record, you better know who you think is clearly better.  (And it's not Harbaugh, he missed the playoffs six of the last 13 years.)

Can always end up with the next Ray Rhodes or Mike Sherman.

I look at it this way. You know what you got in MLF and it's never going to get you where you want to go so why waste any more time with him.

[OldHeidelberg]

2 minutes ago, homer said:

I guess it depends on if Policy thinks this one game is representative of something larger. I'm in the minority, I'm sure, but I think this one is on Gute. That offensive line was pathetic without Tom. 

I think it is representative of something larger but yeah hard to guess what Policy thinks. Maybe we will be surprised. 

[Jopal78]

5 minutes ago, OldHeidelberg said:

Do you think he gets extension after that game? I am still processing this but holy crap hard to see that right now.   

Of course he gets an extension. What are they going to do, get John Harbaugh who is even further removed from consistent success in the NFL? Get some coach to squeeze even more production out of their QB??

I could be wrong but I don’t  think there is some sort of “Buck stops here” mentality where LaFleur gets canned for failings if his underlings.  Bisaccia gets fired, maybe Hafley leaves but the offense rolling up 27 points and 431 yards isn’t really why they lost. 

[HarryDoyle]

3 minutes ago, LouisEly said:

It's easy to fire someone.

If you do, and you have a team with a winning record, you better know who you think is clearly better.  (And it's not Harbaugh, he missed the playoffs six of the last 13 years.)

Can always end up with the next Ray Rhodes or Mike Sherman.

I get that, but keeping MLF after this game says you are fine with the status quo. His ceiling is Marty Schottenheimer, and that's being kind.

[OldHeidelberg]

25 points in 4th quarter. oof...