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You bet it was. But remember, teams can take cheap shots at Bear players. Open season. I noticed after the hit that DJ was holding a hand behind his back when he lined up for the play, obviously in a great deal of pain. The guy is tough. He plays through injuries when others would sit. We need to keep guys like this on our team.

I'm sure Detroit will have plenty of motivation. Question: If they win out, and GB drops their next two, doesn't that give them 2nd place in the NFCN? If yes, does that put Detroit in as #7 seed?

Wow, I asked a simple question, assuming everyone agreed with me that it was DPI, and wondered if the refs should have flagged it, even though DJ somehow managed to catch the pass. (How he was even able to see the ball with the defender's hands in front of his facemask amazes me.) My assumption was obviously wrong. Not everyone agrees that it was DPI. Which only proves how difficult it is for refs to make the call, unless the action is so blatant it doesn't need to be subjective. The only indisputable fact is that DJ caught the pass, scored a TD, and the Bears won. That is all that matters.

Big difference from when we would only get one or two players make it, quite often as a substitute. Let's hope all of them make it and have to take a pass because they will be preparing to play in the Super Bowl. 😉

Same here. Heck, my gut reaction was it was an incomplete pass. Then I saw the celebration and refs indicating a TD. Surprised they didn't do a replay. Guess they were able to see it was clearly a TD.

Wild game, OPI wipes out go-ahead walk-off TD, and PIT wins. We are, as you announced, a playoff team!

I can't believe I will be pulling for A. Rodgers to have a great game to defeat Detroit. Good grief, how low can I go?

That was my thinking. He wasn't playing the ball; he was reacting to DJ's reaching for it. The defender not only made major contact before the ball arrived, but also had his hands in DJ's face (at first I thought it was grabbing the face mask, but then, on watching it again, he was covering it with his hands). I am certainly not as well-versed in these manners as Mongo, but to me it was a DPI. I guess it is a good thing I am not a ref. LOL

Didn't you think that was a DPI?

Question. If DJ didn't catch the winning TD in the endzone, would the refs have called DPI against the Packer player draped over his back before the ball even arrived? My guess is that, given how the refs have disrespected the Bears pretty much all season, it would have been a no-call.

Green Bay plays Baltimore next week (with Love?), which is certainly not an easy task, and then travels to Minnesota for the final week. The GBP vs MIN rivalry is strong, and you never know what will happen in divisional matchups. Hell, it's possible GB tanks the remainder of the season.

For any Bears fan, this victory was monumental. One I will never forget. However, IMHO, San Francisco is a far more talented team than any team we have played this year, and who stands in the way of a potential #1 seed for the Bears. Detroit, despite their record, kicked our ass in the first meeting (we are vastly improved since then). I want revenge! So, yes, I think the next two games could define the Bears as either a good team that missed the playoffs or one that won the NFCN, the #1 seed, and a chance to return to the Super Bowl.

And we have arguably our two most challenging games of the season ahead of us.

Just checking in. What a fantastic win. If we had lost the game with both Parsons and Love on the sidelines, I would have puked. As mentioned before, we might see GBP in the playoffs, assuming we make it to the dance. Nothing is guaranteed.

And, unfortunately for us older fans, we remember HOF QB Bart Starr from the 1950's. How can one team manage to have three HOF-quality QBs spanning the entire Super Bowl Era? I was praying J Love would suck, leaving the Packers in the QB Hell the Bears have suffered for so long.