Fear The Chorizo

10 plays run to 33...and packers got the 2nd half kickoff

Offense hung the D out to dry this half - they are gassed

Started his slide 2 yards further back, but ok stripes

Ticky tack, but ive seen much less get called PI than a cb who doesnt pick up the ball and holds a receiver's arm at the point of a catch

Fg because of the bad kickoff Offense just needs to keep moving the ball and keeping the Bears at arms length, and Williams is going to throw them a pick

Ugh...kick the damn ball

Bears going for broke on defense and they broke

The NFL needs to do away with offensive lineman pushing a pile/ball carrier forward this offseason...either that or they need to allow defenders to pick up ball carriers and set them down 10 yards upfield instead of forward progress

And now ND wont play in a bowl at all...lol So, I get why they're upset they didn't get into the playoff, but just a thought - maybe join a flipping conference so you get an opportunity to win a conference title and write your ticket automatically. I also know ND's conference as a whole next year is a complete joke

Really crappy sequence now

Crappy sequence to open 2nd half on offense there

MLF playing chess, timeout earlier wouldve given the Bears' offense too much time after scoring another TD to goat Nixon into several personal foul calls to get them back into Fg range to end the half

Who needs timeouts when you've got Bo Melton Blown coverage

Holding could honestly be called on people blocking Parsons every other play

Wth was that kickoff? Lol

Bears have 3 points due to personal foul penalties....that are questionable at best

Either do away with conference championship games altogether (never will happen because $$), or have them mean something when you get trounced like Bama did and give other teams with reasonable resumes a chance to win a national title. I dont see how you could win a natty when you arent competitive in a game to win your conference. I get Miami in over the Irish, but ND should be in over 3 loss Bama. CFB is trash, and as I suspected the larger the playoff field there is, the more ridiculous the selection process is.

This BYU team is ranked in the top 15? Only 1 loss?? College football is unwatchable- blow it all up and just merge the blueblood programs as an NFL minor league system

I'm convinced the NFC playoffs is going to be magic 8-ball style randomness as to who goes to the Super Bowl. I do think the Packers have among the highest ceilings - but will have concerns due to their lines running into a bad matchup, and they've already proven they are capable of losing to just about anyone just like they can beat anyone.

Bad/slippery field conditions probably don't impact the Bears much at all, since they get to play their home games on the worst playing surface in the NFL every year. I do think the cold temps could impact Williams/Bears throwing the ball more than Love, particularly with his ability to escape the pocket and make plays with his feet. Williams has alot of juke to his scrambling, and that quick twitch stuff just isn't as dynamic in cold weather on a grass outdoor surface. Getting Walker back and keeping the Bears from a run-heavy game plan will go a long way to putting the Bears team in their place after the 2 month horseshoe they've been riding with. Williams will throw the Packers a couple of picks if DBs can catch the ball, or I can see a strip sack at a big moment turning the game with Williams trying to do too much. Someone other than Parsons is going to have a big game rushing the passer/blitzing, and having Cooper or Walker availably to shadow Williams is big if they can get the Bears into 3rd and longs/1-dimensional passing. If the Packers take care of the football, they're going to win Sunday afternoon. The Bears as a team have gotten way too much favorable press leading up to and especially right after beating an inconsistent Eagles team, something Chicago hasn't dealt with since most of their roster has been born, and that's a recipe for a clunker going on the road for a team that is very new to success. I know Chicago might get some of their early season secondary starters back on defense, but they are among the league's worst run defenses and I think GB is going to make some hay on the ground and with play action.

I think the Norv Turner I-formation offense that leans on pounding the rock and play action would be borderline unstoppable if you took the personnel from those Cowboys teams and just dropped them into today's NFL. All the exotic defensive fronts and edge rushers would just get ground to a pulp, and I think the NFL has a tremendous lack of good cornerbacks that cannot play on an island right now. But, that was a different era - it would take an organization to have the stones to draft and acquire that type of personnel over the course of a few seasons to build a roster capable of running that type of offense again. There are teams now that mix in run-heavy sets - just not their staple offense, though.

I think the Packers need an offensive explosion game to try and force the Bears out of the run-focused game plan and make Williams throw against a line with ears pinned back and secondary that mixes up coverage schemes. Want them to stay aggressive on offense.

There are a ton of teams with some inflated win loss records - that seems to be a product of the 17 game season expansion. The perennial good teams beat up on each other and then a team from each division that is a dreg finds lightning in a bottle and jumps ahead of everyone in the standings. Not saying all the current division leaders are phonies, but its way easier for the Bears/Pats/Broncos/Seahawks of the world to stack a bunch of wins against 3rd/4th place schedules and get an extra game against a doormat instead of a really good opponent. Just wish the Packers took care of business at Cleveland or at home against that plucky Panthers team - 10-1-1 is such a realistic record for them rn.

The Panthers can run the ball...its also why the Bears find themselves at 9-3 despite a quarterback who is playing like anything but a 1st overall pick. The Broncos have a really good defense and have found ways to win some duds of games against a softer schedule. This year's playoffs is going to be absolutely wide open

Still on outside looking in...but the Cowboys could be a playoff bracket wrecker if they stay healthy