BearFan2000

As I posted earlier by selling my tickets to this game I guaranteed a win. Maybe I should buy sixteen game tickets next year and then sell them..... on second thought, my wallet would not allow that strategy. LOL

I have to say that was a gutsy call. I figured three straight handoffs and another FG attempt. We went for the Kill. That is so un-bear like. Tonight we looked like a completely different team. We actually looked competent. And beat arguably a superior opponent. I thought we'd get lazy and at the end it looked like we had but Kudos to Jay for stepping up and going toe to toe against Favre.

HOLY SHIT!!!! Ha ha suck it queens

Turnover, bears ball!!! Ball was coming out before he was down... should stand. it aint over yet

Not yet the D finally held and we have another crack at it. We have definitely had our chances

missed.... game over

odds just went up 75% we still need to get more yardage. 45 yarder

they win the toss it's over book it. We win the toss, we may have a slim chance. odds of us winning this game I'd say 25%

hopefully he is ok. I feel bad for Peanut he's had such bad luck with Injuries. I like him as a player and as an individual. A great guy, but as much as I hate to say it, it's probably time to move on without him just like Mike Brown. Why is it that when we finally find guys that are impact players and then they become injury prone....

Offense has gone into hibernation Defense now letting the vikings have whatever they want and when ever they want. end result a valiant effort for 3 Qtrs and then we lay down and die. Favre is getting all this love, but the Bears are laying down now.

Jay's pick tonight was totally his fault. Run and slide or chuck it into the first row would have been better options. He was out of the pocket so he had no reason not to at the very least throw it away. I will say that 22 of 25 being his fault is BS. It makes me question how closely he "studied film." Broadcast crews often get lazy and take the easy angle on stories and just regurgitate what others have said. Jay statistically has a high number of picks but the percentage that are is fault is not as high as gets reported. He has had virtually no help from the other 11 on the field. Bad picks happen to all QB's no matter how good or bad.

saying lovies good at anything is laughable

This is a big part of why we will end up losing. Jay's pick was not a good decision. there's those huge holes in the coverage that we have come to loathe

was on the ground and rather than touch him down the vikes player choses to land on him. In the process his leg gets rolled. Sure hope it's not serious.

They were both pushing each other should have been a non call.

What an odd experience... On one hand I'm actually enjoying how the Bears are playing, seeing Favre sulking on the sidelines, knowing that with a win we can deny Minny the #1 seed and they could and up without a bye in the first round LOL On the other hand it is irritating that when we have played like crap all year we finally see good good coaching, effective pass protection, effective running, a solid passing game, solid red zone offense, special teams playing well, and defense doing well. Can our coaches only coach well when their backs are against the wall and their jobs are in jeopardy? It should not take this situation to motivate our coaches or team to step up.

Holy shit we actually got a pass interference call and Olsen wasn't murdered to get it.

Williams should have been starting all year. He has looked good and natural. This time around they are actually helping with chip blocks. Pass protection and a little success running the ball and Jay looks like a totally different QB. Further proof that the O-Line has to be a priority. When Jay has time to read the play as it develops he isn't forced to throw it to where his first read should be with defensive linemen breathing down his neck he is pretty darn accurate and can truly use that cannon of an arm. Fix the Line and you go a long way towards fixing the offense. Jay's 25 pics have a lot to do with virtually no protection, no run game, and little chance to get comfortable in a game. At the end of the day people will focus on 25 and say Jay sucks but forget that one man can't do it all. Forte as well has looked sharp, he is using better vision on his runs. Even a decent run game works wonders and makes the play action a possibility. It also takes pressure off the QB. Play calling we are actually seeing play calling that caters to Jay's strengths not forcing him to be what he's not. This so far is Ron's best game calling this season. Now on the flip side I do feel that the Vikings felt they'd just come here and have their way and who can blame them we've given plenty of reason to think that way. They are now trying to turn it on down 16-0. My guess is we will still lose because our coaches can't adjust in game. Once the vikes get their crap together they will take over the game.

now a pass interference Tillman gets pushed but he's called for the interference.....how typical.

We are actually seeing good play calling. They are rolling cutler out, using protection packages to keep him upright and give him time to throw. Amazing how those things are helping Jay look like the QB we gave up so much for. What puzzles me is we are 2 weeks from the end of the season and are just now playing at a level we were hoping to see when the season started. If we do in fact win this one good game plan and effort cannot overshadow the poor preparation of the past 14 weeks. If anything it's more an indictment of the coaching staff that the same players that were inept for the better part of the season that are playing well tonight. And just as I type it we call 3 straight dumb calls. Things are going well Ron tries to get cute and clever so he goes away from what was working.

a pass interference no call on 3rd and goal, just now well after the whistle blows Clark is pushed and then thrown to the ground and no foul.... what has to happen to warrant a freaking penalty? Dose a Bears player have to get injured or killed? Such freaking BS. The first would have resulted in first and goal at the 1 instead at fourth and goal at the 4 we kick a 22 yard FG The second would have been an automatic first down, instead 3rd down and we have an incomplete pass and kick another fg on 4th down. Non calls hurt us as much as the bad ones do.

not to be antagonistic but what would that actually prove? They already have your money for the game what do they care if we even show up? Heck it doesn't seem to bother them that the team doesn't even show up. Same thing for the add and the billboard. Neither will do any good. Groups popping up asking for fan donation to put up signs, adds, and whatnot smell fishy to me. Scammers make a lot of money by latching on to issues that people are emotionally charged about. They want you to think with your emotions rather than brains. I'd be leery of anyone like that. Now sure this particular gesture would cost the ticket holders nothing to wait till after the opening kickoff. Will it happen? no I highly doubt it. But the end result will be the same. Since when has team management cared about what fans think. The stadium will be full no matter what. The Bears are the Cubs of the NFL Win, lose, or draw fans will still come. Management is only concerned about doing what will financially benefit them the most. Meaning the team has to only be successful enough to dangle hope. I know this sounds pessimistic and negative and maybe I'm just in a bad mood. main point being be careful of people who will take advantage of the emotional frustration we as fans feel.

but we're going to trick them by not doing the predictable smart thing. We are so clever. Doing the opposite of what would be conventionally logical does not make you clever it makes you an idiot. What's sad is he actually thinks he's being clever and when it doesn't work it's the players not executing. It's one thing to try to catch someone off guard by running a play call that may not be expected at that point because you've set it up throughout the game. It's another to decide to double team the weakest DE on their team and let one of the better DE's in the league stay one on one against a geriatric tackle and then a virtual rookie. Your goal should be to negate their best D-lineman not make his job easier. Turner would probably get the first question wrong on Are you Smarter than a 5th Grader. Heck he'd probably fail at are you smarter than a pre-schooler. It's football 101 Ron..... EPIC FAIL

Just when I though no one could get dumber than the Bears coaching staff I stumbled across this nugget. All I have to say is what the hell were they thinking when they drew this up? The Redskins "Trick Play"

I just wonder if that important McCaskey is in fact Virginia. She's the closest we've got to Papa Bear and she may feel it's time to step up and not let this team that her Father built be flushed further down the crapper. Someone in this organization needs to put their foot down and end this. The though of Jerry pulling a power play at first to me sounded absurd but it really does make sense and really would be the best last ditch effort to save his own skin. What do gain by letting Smith continue this charade for two more games? What more could we lose by axing him now? There's two games left on the schedule but the team quit trying 5 weeks ago. So what if we let an interim coach handle the remaining two games and we loose out... it's not like we'll do better than split them at best anyway. Besides even if we do split them (Lions win, Vikings loss) we still end up 6-10 and aren't going anywhere anyway. We could use these two weeks to aggressively pursue a real coaching candidate like Cower. Sure Lovie runs a country club, and bringing in a guy like Cower would not sit well right away but I think once players see that the team is committed to winning and that a guy like Cower could provide that kind of leadership players will start to buy in. The ones that want to be lazy and not work can be shown the nearest exit as they are part of the problem.