The Bears have DJ Moore and I don't think anybody is confusing him with Ja'Marr Chase. He still came through for his team and helped give them a chance to win.
It's not even really about Reed. I think I'm mostly sour because the Packers fooled me. I thought they were good. They're merely average, or a tick above.
The last 5 weeks of this season have put a real dampener on how I feel about this team. 3 losses in winnable games all against division rivals is deflating in any season. They just can't make the key play at the end of games to secure a victory, all 3 ended with the defense failing to prevent crucial 1st downs that led to game winning field goals.
Even the 2 wins feel somewhat hollow in retrospect.
New Orleans is a bad football team that was forced to play their backup QB. Still there were stretches of that game where the offensive ineptitude was apparent. I had considered that perhaps the Packers went more vanilla as the game went on to not reveal any plays or tendencies but they were still trying to play offense and score and they just fizzled. But they pitched a shutout so people were happy.
Seattle had the feel of a game where the Seahawks could have mounted a comeback but then Geno got hurt and that ended their chances. In the 2nd half the Packers punted 4 times, failed a 4th down conversion and lost a fumble while scoring just 10 points.
Pretty uninspiring stuff. Can they still beat any of the teams in the playoffs? Sure, it's possible. I don't think it's likely though.
There is a lot of work to do this offseason.