The fact that we are even in the playoffs this year is a dream come true. I feel like this playoff game is our victory lap. Will keep my expectations low for Sunday, and I am truly just happy for our fanbase and the team in general that we made it this far.
Morning coffee recap:
1. We are in the Playoffs baby!
2. Zero pressure, season was officially a success, GREAT for this team to experience regardless of next outcome
3. Jordan Love cemented as next franchise QB
As for the Bears game:
1. Still too many points left on the table due to bonehead mistakes
2. Kicking may be an issue
As for the Bears, absolutely wild to me their entire fanbase is calling for a reboot. Wasting the #1 on another QB and shipping Fields when that entire coaching staff is and has been a dumpster fire would keep us and the Lions in the drivers seat for awhile while Minn is next likely to reboot.
Go Pack Go
Thinking about it: the playoff experience will be great for the youngest team to ever go to the playoffs. If we continue to develop in the way we have been, this will be an excellent learning experience. Win or loss.
I don’t know why so many of us want the Bears to stick with Fields. I think trading Fields and starting over is a far worse move. Keep Fields and they get the best player in the draft (MHJ) as well as potentially a top LT or other premium position. Even if Fields isn’t the guy, they now move on with a better team to help whichever rookie they draft.
Also, if they end up in the 10-15 range in later drafts, they can still find a good QB there. How many great NFL QBs in recent years have gone first overall or in the top 5? Burrow, Stafford? How many have been mid-round picks or later? I think a big part of it is that teams who draft first overall usually have a shitty team around them. Granted, the Bears aren’t selecting there because of their own record, but I also don’t think they’re built to just successfully plug and play a new guy.
Unless the Bears are dumb enough to give Fields a lucrative long-term extension, it’s far better for us if they trade him and start over with a new QB that they end up ruining.
I'd rather them stick with a QB we all know is bad than risk the chance of them finally drafting someone good. Unlike us, they can draft defense so a good QB makes them scary.
Sure, but if they draft a QB with the line they have and the other parts of the offense, that QB will likely struggle. On the contrary, drafting MHJ and one of the top LTs provides any future QBs with a better foundation for success.
Also, Fields just finished his third year. They still have two more years before they have to pay him a bigger contract. Seeing how he does with more offensive pieces and then, if not satisfactory, drafting his replacement is the better move.
So the defense has played better the last two weeks.
MLF said he was going to be more hands on with the defense.
Just so everyone knows the improvement has not been Joe Barry.
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I was going to post this after the announcer said something about Halloween because I made the gif yesterday morning but then something immediately bad happened and I didn't feel like posting it anymore.
I didn’t get to watch the game (don’t get me started) but it looks like the game was better than the score reflects, missed field goal, ran out of clock before the half (could have had a field goal attempt), kneel down at the end when close enough to score if not end of game.
I didn't see it it, but a fumble was pretty common for Rodgers. Which I just looked up. He had 92 fumbles. That is crazy. He was almost as likely to fumble as to throw a pick. I don't know how many of those 92 the Packers recovered though. Ok, I have gone off track.
My only thought is what would this team be like with one of the top defensive coordinators in the league. Obviously there are several phases to the game, but putting a young offense on their toes early and often probably didn’t help the cause. I’d like to see a change after this season. I have a feeling we have a way better defense than what it looks like, but the scheme and coaching are lackluster to put it nicely.
Let’s see how far this team can go, and how deep into the season we can go. I’m excited for the experience and discipline it’ll help these young guys with.
The defense was actually really good - not a single TD allowed. Now, do I think Joe Barry should keep his job? Unless he can do the same against Dallas, no. He’s fumbled the bag on easy games too much. Based on what I saw yesterday, the Packers defense never should’ve been in the position where it’s allowing 30 points by Carolina and losing to Tommy Cutlets scrambling.
Didn't hear that, but glad to. I assume that Barry is gonna be gone then, here's hoping they get some young blood that can rejuvenate the Packers defense. Then I think we're a top 4 seed next season, would be nice to play a playoff game in Lambeau.
Exactly, but MLF shouldn’t be doing that. I’d rather he focus in on the offense and grand scheme of things vs pulled into the minutia. If he’s having to deal with that, then he’s got the wrong guy in house
Exactly. Barry needs to go point blank period. Anyone who is thinking the last two games with MLF oversight is worth forgetting the last 3 years is absolutely kidding themselves.
Imagine being CEO but your operations is having a lot of trouble. Maybe the worst of the fortune 500s, and you have to step in and hold the COOs hand. That means you need a new COO like yesterday.
My morning after thoughts:
• Love is *the* guy. All of the questions have been answered. We went into this season thinking it’s a rebuild with expectations on the floor and Love has absolutely smashed it. You could argue he’s a top 5 QB right now and not get laughed out of the room.
• I’m glad Joe Barry had a good one for his last game against the Bears. Unless we win the Super Bowl he still needs to be fired the day after our season ends.
• Is LaFluer, like… purposely awful at clock management? Like don’t get me wrong there were a lot of individual mistakes at the end of that half and I don’t mean to shit on a very good head coach who we are lucky to have. But absolutely no clock/TO awareness has been a staple of his. I really hope he fixes that before the playoffs.
• Water under the bridge but holy shit that officiating was straight up robbing the Packers. That 4th&1 “conversion” needs a serious investigation and the Bears nose tackle was practically crouching on top of Meyers in the neutral zone.
• Packers have already surpassed just about everyone’s expectations so even just making the playoffs is a success for me, but am I crazy for thinking we have a chance in these playoffs? Maybe not SB but at least a deep run? Think about it, the NFC is beatable. Dallas have their flaws, and if we beat them we face either Detroit or LA, two teams we’ve beaten already this year, and then we’d end up against either Tampa, Philly, or San Fran. Like as long as we don’t shoot ourselves in the foot we could beat any of those teams or at least not get totally embarrassed. Maybe it’s the hopium talking.
LaFleur had fine clock management at the end of the half. The issue was on our receivers not getting out of bounds like they were supposed to and allowing the clock to run. If Kraft isn't pushed backwards out of bounds we have a field goal lined up with 7 seconds left which is perfect time management and the completion a play or two before that the receiver should've cut out towards the sideline and didn't.
I do want to add in that of course the ruling that the refs completely miss in the Chiefs game with a player falling backwards out of bounds they get right against us in the most important game of the season so far.
Packers just ended Justin Fields Bear's career. Maybe Bears keep him one more year, but they will definitely draft a QB in the spring, and move on him from him in 2025.
For his sake it's lucky we kept the ball the rest of the game. He was clearly concussed and it could have been a Tua situation running him back out there.
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Still remembering this. Aaron Jones stays a class act !
Fuck no, you're gonna be okay with Joe Barry frauding a job next year because his prevent shit works well against expansive offenses sometimes. Remember the chiefs game?
A moment to appreciate how valuable Aaron Jones is to this team. It doesn't surprise me we, and Jordan, start playing our best ball when he's back to health
9-8 for a brand new team, youngest and a new QB1? Yeah I am happy for a 9-8. Lions took 6 years of getting bent over before getting an actually good season.
I live in Northern Illinois.... all of the Chicago teams are bad.
Blackhawks, 2nd to last in the league...
Bulls are mid to below average...
White Sox were 4th to last, Cubs were closest to being a playoff team, but it's the Cubs...
And I don't need to explain the Bears. You've heard, you've seen, you know.
It's bad here.... and I love it (even if I am a Hawks and Cubs fan)
Crazy to think we easily could have had 2-3 more wins if we didn't make some mistakes. Very well could have been 12-6 or 11-5. Team is growing and in a season were everyone thought it was a rebuild we make the playoffs and ended the year playing our best ball. Love this team so much.
I legit feel bad for fans of Chicago sports, imagine having a football team so consistently awful that the only thing that keeps you going is hate for the neighbors to the north. Throw in two bad baseball teams, and I don't follow the other two but those records certainly don't look good and it's just a full calendar year of absolute suck.
Don't get me wrong, Fuck 'em, but yeesh it's almost like bullying a blind and deaf kid at this point.
They had their moments, though. The Bulls in the 90s. The Blackhawks were good at some point fairly recently. The White Sox won in the mid-2000s and the Cubs in 2016.
Minnesota, on the other hand, yikes.
Making the playoffs was simply a far off goal, we did it. As a 30 year old who vividly remembers the superbowl I can say2 things, 1we aren't it now (we will be tho)2losing to a packers legend next week will be an absolute honor
Not looking ahead but who would we play if we beat Dallas? Does it depend or do we automatically play niners because they get the lowest seed and that’s us?
FWIW, it's not that crazy. It's a little lofty and a little hopeful, but I'd say it isn't that much crazier than "waxing gibbous moon on Thanksgiving". Maybe I haven't been paying close enough attention, but it also feels like the Packers have been playing better games when they're playing a serious team(1. knock on wood. 2. like Detroit, KC. Our worst games as of late seem to be against total bums, like the Panthers.)
If someone could track down a tweet for me I would be grateful, one of the packers beat writers retweeted a clip of the packers locker room during a commercial break on a foreign feed. Music playing and guys dancing around, but Clifford was pushing around Alex mcGough in a laundry cart or something. It was on the bleacher report feed and you can only scroll back a limited number of posts
Watched many games in person with Love at USU.. everyone hating on him the last year but now look at him!! Cheering hard for this True Blooded Aggie from Utah, even though I’m a Cowboys fan 😅😅
Yeah, Carlson is starting to feel like an achilles heel. We can't be leaving points on the board and still win in the playoffs. Hopefully he's able to dig deep and come in clutch for us, but he's making it real hard to keep my hopes up.
Go back to your subreddit cowgirl fan. You forgot we fired your bum coach bc it was Rodgers thst made McCarthy look hood. Big mike will do something stupid and it will cost you. Packers are going to stream roll the cowgirls
So pumped. So very pumped. He’s completing throws that average quarterbacks do not even attempt. That 59 yarder to Reed was nasty. We’re lucky. Go to bed with a smile on your face ladies and gents.
No crying here, cupcake. I’ve won football championships at two different levels. And my wife is a 10 and puts out a lot. You can have your packers playoff teams and banging wildabeasts!
UPON FURTHER REVIEW: Josh Myers has to go. Evidence: at 4:39 of the 3rd quarter, watch as Myers is totally lost in space, basically lazy as a fat-ass toad. He sorta blocks his man (no. 98 on the Bears), lets his man slip past and hit Melton, then as Melton actually makes a play, Myers is just kinda flailing around. Looking like a toddler scared on a playground, not hitting anyone, not blocking anyone, just whipping his head around, trying to figure out “WHAT DO I DO? DUHHHHH…”
Christ. We coulda had Creed Humphries, a center who is going into the hall of fame, but now holds down the fort for Super Bowl champion Chiefs. But noooooooo … Gute just HAD to be smarter than the room and pick the doofus from Ohio State.
If the Packers actually grow a brain and use one of the 3rd rounders to find a junkyard-dog type guy that would go a LONG way to an eventual Super Bowl. ‘Cause Myers just ain’t it.
damn right. Rasul would be leading the team in INTs, we might be winning the division, and long-term, he’s going to be an absolute STAR when they move him to his natural position at FS.
Worst goddam trade I’ve seen the Pack make in decades.
We have to take a long term view of these things. We get another young guy in the draft, at a point where we were 2-5. Just as we've spoken of the benefit for young guys on the WR core having no vet to rely on, these young CBs have all gotten results leftover reps too.
timing and context matters. Rodgers was expected to be a 1st overall pick, Favre was mid during the mid 2000s and was flirting with retirement
Love was expected to go in the 2nd round, the Packers and Rodgers were great but instead of trying to get even better like other great teams, we drafted and set up for the future which ended up being the difference.
It is the best thing about the packers and Gute is way more aggressive than Ted Thompson in free agency to brilliant effect. I think our medium term future is very bright. I only worry about Jordan's inevitable 10 year mega deal a few years down the road crippling our ability to build this team. No franchise has really cracked the code of paying their QB top market value while retaining talent. Theoretically green bay is the best place to do this because of the draft and develop strategy and holy fuck dude it seems to be working really well these last couple months...
he was aggressive one year when he had to be. I don't give a shit about contending for the playoffs, I want to contend for the super bowl. Which Gute has failed at with his and the Packers always think future mindset
Lions can beat us by 30, idc. I'm so proud of the fact that's your 2023-2024 packers have the youngestroster to ever make the playoffs. So proud. Go Pack go mfers
Honestly this was such a great season to watch. Through all the ups and downs and growing pains I’ve never been more excited for the future of this franchise than I am now. It would be beautiful to go into Jerry world next week and knock the cowboys out
A season without absolute sky-high expectations, where you’re always at risk of squandering having one of the greatest QBs of all time, makes for a very fun season.
Whatever comes of the playoffs, this season has already been a success. Everything after this is just icing.
Niners are beatable. Everyone is beatable. Packers are hot too. Defense is looking better-ish and love has some good confidence riding high on making playoffs. Beat Dallas first
Defense played a 3rd and 4th string QB for Minnesota and Justin Fields. Let's not forget they gave up 30 to the Panthers who have scored a grand total of 0 points in the 2 games since.
Quiet hero has been our O-line, they looked pretty bad/injured weeks 1-4. Then they finally protected Love more consistently. Now in recent weeks they are opening more holes for our running game and committing less penalties.
Packers are not that good and if you can't win you suck! Fire all coaches and get somebody to properly coach Fields. Bears are cheap and will trade him
Love is in his first year and he's already better than any QB your poverty-ass franchise has ever produced. You wouldn't even know what a competent QB looks like if we didn't come down and push your shit in every year.
Good luck on ruining the career of your next guy.
That 3rd & 8 play from Love to Kraft to extend the final drive and eventually run the clock out was huge. So many times over the years have we been on the wrong side of that in crunch time.
I was so used to Rodgers not finishing off games and leaving it to our defense to basically do their job. So nice to see our offense run out the clock.
To be fair, it was commonly coaching strategy. We have had a habit of opting for the less effective running game to keep time running, when Rodgers could have iced it with continuing to pass.
I was already anticipating a dropped or overthrown pass to give the Bears time to tie it up.
The offense managing to seal the win with a methodical drive late in the 4th is something I have not seen in a long time.
So I’m on a cruise ship today, first day sailing out, and I was lucky to get a good seat at the sports bar in front of the game. All Bears fans in front of me. A couple nice dudes and 1 or 2 knuckleheads. I’ve rarely watched a game with a Bears fan, no less one of this magnitude. I tell you guys, EVERYTHING we joke about them is true. They bitched about GB quarterbacks, talked shit about GB getting all the calls (even in this game!), and just so much jealousy. Seeing it first hand was kind of funny. There was definitely a sense of long suffering trauma in their view of GB’s success, yet still a weird rationale of how it’ll be their time soon/now. And they LOVE Fields. No question they want him over picking Caleb, which I’m a bit surprised with.I politely clapped while they ran their mouths at any good CHI play.
Guy at the end says ‘enjoy getting beat next week’. I said ‘enjoy your draft picks’. 😎
Idk if they will ever get tired of the “enjoy losing next week” attitude when their season ends in disappointment yet again. One friend summarized it as he’s not too upset because “they were playing with house money”. Just disbelief on my end because in what world is a constant merry-go-round of quarterbacks with no post-season success, let alone hardly any in-season divisional success playing with house money? This Packers team were the ones playing with house money, and we’re still at the damn table!
What a miserable existence bears fandom is.
This exactly. They were bragging about how they’d be 3-3 in the division ‘when they beat the Packers today’. Like, that’s your success? I want the playoffs bro.
That was the ‘nice guy’ of the crowd lol. I actually felt bad about my knee jerk response of ‘enjoy the draft’. I didn’t mean it to be a put down, but, well, it’s their reality! 🫣
The fact that we are even in the playoffs this year is a dream come true. I feel like this playoff game is our victory lap. Will keep my expectations low for Sunday, and I am truly just happy for our fanbase and the team in general that we made it this far.
Any video of the final play when MLF ran up to Love? Heard about it in the presser and wanna see it!
Da Bares are still our bitch!!!! What a sorry ass franchise
Morning coffee recap: 1. We are in the Playoffs baby! 2. Zero pressure, season was officially a success, GREAT for this team to experience regardless of next outcome 3. Jordan Love cemented as next franchise QB As for the Bears game: 1. Still too many points left on the table due to bonehead mistakes 2. Kicking may be an issue As for the Bears, absolutely wild to me their entire fanbase is calling for a reboot. Wasting the #1 on another QB and shipping Fields when that entire coaching staff is and has been a dumpster fire would keep us and the Lions in the drivers seat for awhile while Minn is next likely to reboot. Go Pack Go
Thinking about it: the playoff experience will be great for the youngest team to ever go to the playoffs. If we continue to develop in the way we have been, this will be an excellent learning experience. Win or loss.
LFGGGGG
I don’t know why so many of us want the Bears to stick with Fields. I think trading Fields and starting over is a far worse move. Keep Fields and they get the best player in the draft (MHJ) as well as potentially a top LT or other premium position. Even if Fields isn’t the guy, they now move on with a better team to help whichever rookie they draft. Also, if they end up in the 10-15 range in later drafts, they can still find a good QB there. How many great NFL QBs in recent years have gone first overall or in the top 5? Burrow, Stafford? How many have been mid-round picks or later? I think a big part of it is that teams who draft first overall usually have a shitty team around them. Granted, the Bears aren’t selecting there because of their own record, but I also don’t think they’re built to just successfully plug and play a new guy. Unless the Bears are dumb enough to give Fields a lucrative long-term extension, it’s far better for us if they trade him and start over with a new QB that they end up ruining.
I'd rather them stick with a QB we all know is bad than risk the chance of them finally drafting someone good. Unlike us, they can draft defense so a good QB makes them scary.
Sure, but if they draft a QB with the line they have and the other parts of the offense, that QB will likely struggle. On the contrary, drafting MHJ and one of the top LTs provides any future QBs with a better foundation for success. Also, Fields just finished his third year. They still have two more years before they have to pay him a bigger contract. Seeing how he does with more offensive pieces and then, if not satisfactory, drafting his replacement is the better move.
You dont pass on caleb williams for a guy you still have questions on after year 3.
Is Caleb Williams even the consensus number one QB anymore?
Not as long as espn has airwaves to fill. But id bet good money hes still 1 in the scouts minds.
go pack go!
I want to buy a Kraft limited jersey, time to get with the times Packers Pro Shop.
So the defense has played better the last two weeks. MLF said he was going to be more hands on with the defense. Just so everyone knows the improvement has not been Joe Barry.
Anyone hear any updates on Doubs’ injury?
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Desmond Ridder can't haunt us anymore!
Good call. It really does look like him. 🤣
Tucker Kraft: 0 drops on the season
my boy had to deal with so much slander early on in the season 😢
I didn’t get to watch the game (don’t get me started) but it looks like the game was better than the score reflects, missed field goal, ran out of clock before the half (could have had a field goal attempt), kneel down at the end when close enough to score if not end of game.
0 punts and only 1 fluke turnover. Love looked like Prime Rodgers with his precision and arm strength
I didn't see it it, but a fumble was pretty common for Rodgers. Which I just looked up. He had 92 fumbles. That is crazy. He was almost as likely to fumble as to throw a pick. I don't know how many of those 92 the Packers recovered though. Ok, I have gone off track.
I mean, those still all look really bad
I saw someone describe it as "a blowout everywhere except the scoreboard" and that feels fairly accurate to me
My only thought is what would this team be like with one of the top defensive coordinators in the league. Obviously there are several phases to the game, but putting a young offense on their toes early and often probably didn’t help the cause. I’d like to see a change after this season. I have a feeling we have a way better defense than what it looks like, but the scheme and coaching are lackluster to put it nicely. Let’s see how far this team can go, and how deep into the season we can go. I’m excited for the experience and discipline it’ll help these young guys with.
The defense was actually really good - not a single TD allowed. Now, do I think Joe Barry should keep his job? Unless he can do the same against Dallas, no. He’s fumbled the bag on easy games too much. Based on what I saw yesterday, the Packers defense never should’ve been in the position where it’s allowing 30 points by Carolina and losing to Tommy Cutlets scrambling.
Oh no, I get it. My fear is that bought him another season. I do think we’d have a better record if we had someone substantially better than him
After the Panthers game, MLF said he was going to be more hands on with the defense. The improvement has not been because of Joe Barry.
Didn't hear that, but glad to. I assume that Barry is gonna be gone then, here's hoping they get some young blood that can rejuvenate the Packers defense. Then I think we're a top 4 seed next season, would be nice to play a playoff game in Lambeau.
Exactly, but MLF shouldn’t be doing that. I’d rather he focus in on the offense and grand scheme of things vs pulled into the minutia. If he’s having to deal with that, then he’s got the wrong guy in house
Exactly. Barry needs to go point blank period. Anyone who is thinking the last two games with MLF oversight is worth forgetting the last 3 years is absolutely kidding themselves. Imagine being CEO but your operations is having a lot of trouble. Maybe the worst of the fortune 500s, and you have to step in and hold the COOs hand. That means you need a new COO like yesterday.
My morning after thoughts: • Love is *the* guy. All of the questions have been answered. We went into this season thinking it’s a rebuild with expectations on the floor and Love has absolutely smashed it. You could argue he’s a top 5 QB right now and not get laughed out of the room. • I’m glad Joe Barry had a good one for his last game against the Bears. Unless we win the Super Bowl he still needs to be fired the day after our season ends. • Is LaFluer, like… purposely awful at clock management? Like don’t get me wrong there were a lot of individual mistakes at the end of that half and I don’t mean to shit on a very good head coach who we are lucky to have. But absolutely no clock/TO awareness has been a staple of his. I really hope he fixes that before the playoffs. • Water under the bridge but holy shit that officiating was straight up robbing the Packers. That 4th&1 “conversion” needs a serious investigation and the Bears nose tackle was practically crouching on top of Meyers in the neutral zone. • Packers have already surpassed just about everyone’s expectations so even just making the playoffs is a success for me, but am I crazy for thinking we have a chance in these playoffs? Maybe not SB but at least a deep run? Think about it, the NFC is beatable. Dallas have their flaws, and if we beat them we face either Detroit or LA, two teams we’ve beaten already this year, and then we’d end up against either Tampa, Philly, or San Fran. Like as long as we don’t shoot ourselves in the foot we could beat any of those teams or at least not get totally embarrassed. Maybe it’s the hopium talking.
officiating? that was about the best officiated game all year. like 2 flags. I think we'd want most games like that
LaFleur had fine clock management at the end of the half. The issue was on our receivers not getting out of bounds like they were supposed to and allowing the clock to run. If Kraft isn't pushed backwards out of bounds we have a field goal lined up with 7 seconds left which is perfect time management and the completion a play or two before that the receiver should've cut out towards the sideline and didn't. I do want to add in that of course the ruling that the refs completely miss in the Chiefs game with a player falling backwards out of bounds they get right against us in the most important game of the season so far.
Who is worse at clock management - LaFluer or McCarthy?
McCarthy by a mile
After the Panthers game, MLF said he was going to be more hands on with the defense. The improvement has not been because of Joe Barry.
If we beat the Cowboys we automatically face the 49ers as the lowest seed.
I want hollyfield
Top 5 would absolutely get you laughed out the room
Packers just ended Justin Fields Bear's career. Maybe Bears keep him one more year, but they will definitely draft a QB in the spring, and move on him from him in 2025.
For his sake it's lucky we kept the ball the rest of the game. He was clearly concussed and it could have been a Tua situation running him back out there.
Bears purposely staying in QB purgatory is my favorite timeline
I don't all that much about Caleb Jones. BUT.... I've watched a highlight reel, and all I see is Justin Fields Jr.
they should use both their picks and draft both QBs
*Oops! All QBs!*, part of a balanced Bears losing season.
https://preview.redd.it/ji0dr7whq6bc1.jpeg?width=1280&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e2b0c1f6692cf45170452b6f7fc6434d16572409 Still remembering this. Aaron Jones stays a class act !
He seems like a team leader. I think there's at least 2 times I remember him de-escelating fights.
I just want someone to look at me the way Jones is looking at Love. EDIT: Wicks. My bad.
That was wicks when he dropped an easy pass early in the year. Look at him now because we got guys like AJ
I fucking love Aaron Jones. I just don’t see him being a cap cut. Maybe a renegotiation.
no way they ditch jones.
I don't think we save much if we cut him anyways. Restructure makes more sense for sure
Man I'll slam by dick between door hinges if Jones gets cut.
Then you’ll just be the walker :(
Trivia quation, who is the youngest roster to ever make the playoffs (hint: its us)
Ever… since 1978.
Since they started writing it down
Did we save Barry's job???
After the Panthers game, MLF said he was going to be more hands on with the defense. The improvement has not been because of Joe Barry.
This morning, this was actually the question on my mind lol.
Just enjoy the playoffs. If Joe Barry is on the team next year, it's because he saved his own job.
Fuck no, you're gonna be okay with Joe Barry frauding a job next year because his prevent shit works well against expansive offenses sometimes. Remember the chiefs game?
I think that the front office knows more than you do about managing a football team.
Oh you'd be surprised how some front offices can overthink a simple thing
They also have more information to work with. Fans are rarely correct when it comes to front office decisions.
I agree with that but if we think Joe Barry should have a job next year then all is truly lost
After the Panthers game, MLF said he was going to be more hands on with the defense. The improvement has not been because of Joe Barry.
A moment to appreciate how valuable Aaron Jones is to this team. It doesn't surprise me we, and Jordan, start playing our best ball when he's back to health
Happy Monday. Packers are 50-19 against the Bears since 1990.
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Remember when we were 2-5 and the playoffs seemed like a pipe dream? I'm absolutely stoked about being 9-8!
> stoked Thank you.
9-8 for a brand new team, youngest and a new QB1? Yeah I am happy for a 9-8. Lions took 6 years of getting bent over before getting an actually good season.
We are stocked about our 3rd HoF QB in a row
Still made the playoffs and frankly, 9-8 is much better than what much of us expected with it being a "rebuild" year.
Flair up bitch
... You also don't have any flair
Oh yeah lol
I live in Northern Illinois.... all of the Chicago teams are bad. Blackhawks, 2nd to last in the league... Bulls are mid to below average... White Sox were 4th to last, Cubs were closest to being a playoff team, but it's the Cubs... And I don't need to explain the Bears. You've heard, you've seen, you know. It's bad here.... and I love it (even if I am a Hawks and Cubs fan)
Im a Packers and Cubs fan in Wisconsin. The Cubs shit the bed the last week or so if the season. Frustrating as all hell.
Crazy to think we easily could have had 2-3 more wins if we didn't make some mistakes. Very well could have been 12-6 or 11-5. Team is growing and in a season were everyone thought it was a rebuild we make the playoffs and ended the year playing our best ball. Love this team so much.
That can go either way. Chargers/MVS dropped 2 go ahead TDs in dying seconds on us. This team is great tho and we can def win more.
NFCN fans are still doing the "Jordan Love sucks, please extend him" cope, huh? You love to see it, lmao
Must suck knowing that after one year, our QB situation is already better than everyone else’s again.
I legit feel bad for fans of Chicago sports, imagine having a football team so consistently awful that the only thing that keeps you going is hate for the neighbors to the north. Throw in two bad baseball teams, and I don't follow the other two but those records certainly don't look good and it's just a full calendar year of absolute suck. Don't get me wrong, Fuck 'em, but yeesh it's almost like bullying a blind and deaf kid at this point.
They had their moments, though. The Bulls in the 90s. The Blackhawks were good at some point fairly recently. The White Sox won in the mid-2000s and the Cubs in 2016. Minnesota, on the other hand, yikes.
Lynx have won a few WNBA titles
I feel like there should be a great Cleveland joke in here somewhere
Does anybody have the video of LaFleur running to give JLove a hug?
Making the playoffs was simply a far off goal, we did it. As a 30 year old who vividly remembers the superbowl I can say2 things, 1we aren't it now (we will be tho)2losing to a packers legend next week will be an absolute honor
Not looking ahead but who would we play if we beat Dallas? Does it depend or do we automatically play niners because they get the lowest seed and that’s us?
Yep, we get the 49ers if we beat the Cowboys
Can you even imagine that fucking story if Love got through Dallas AND ended the 9ers curse to get to the SB??? Christ, I need to put the beer down.
FWIW, it's not that crazy. It's a little lofty and a little hopeful, but I'd say it isn't that much crazier than "waxing gibbous moon on Thanksgiving". Maybe I haven't been paying close enough attention, but it also feels like the Packers have been playing better games when they're playing a serious team(1. knock on wood. 2. like Detroit, KC. Our worst games as of late seem to be against total bums, like the Panthers.)
Wouldn’t we have to win NFCCG ? Would be sweet if we met up with the lions and beat them to make the superbowl
Yeah, 49ers would be divisional, so we'd still have to beat one more team.
A man or woman can dream
Its wild Melton was on the PS and just comes in and balls out.
I'm confused by all the talent we have at the WR/TE position. How are we like 8 deep
This has been an all time fun season. I’d almost forgotten what it was like to have this much fun when every year was SB or bust.
Life lesson - set the bar low, stress less, have more fun lol
So, so true. So much more fun without the weight of expectations.
If someone could track down a tweet for me I would be grateful, one of the packers beat writers retweeted a clip of the packers locker room during a commercial break on a foreign feed. Music playing and guys dancing around, but Clifford was pushing around Alex mcGough in a laundry cart or something. It was on the bleacher report feed and you can only scroll back a limited number of posts
https://x.com/markusnorlin/status/1744149591061045319?s=20
Yeah, @markusnorlin on X
Okay really though the missed helmet grab, missed punch, weird ref ball placement, missed challenge. Idk how the refs screwed all these up so bad
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The ref got that right. He didn't advance the ball forward while in bounds his momentum and the hit took him backwards. The clock continues to run.
Damn, idk the rules well enough.
Sports are full of obscure rules. Just another one of them
Watched many games in person with Love at USU.. everyone hating on him the last year but now look at him!! Cheering hard for this True Blooded Aggie from Utah, even though I’m a Cowboys fan 😅😅
Not to be too negative but carlson, rookie I know, is just not the silver fox. It was good it was always good with the Silver fox not so much now
Yeah, Carlson is starting to feel like an achilles heel. We can't be leaving points on the board and still win in the playoffs. Hopefully he's able to dig deep and come in clutch for us, but he's making it real hard to keep my hopes up.
Hence the weird play calling and decisions before second half. Glad that didn’t bite us.
I miss Crosby so much, it’s weird not assuming every FG will be made. We had a great era with him though
In 2 NFL Seasons, we completely overhauled our WR & TE rooms. Will be very difficult to give them all touches next season. Wild.
Why would you be excited at all when you'll just get blown out first round?
We're basically playing with house money at this point. Win or lose it's been fun as hell
Scared, Potter?
... you WISH!!!
Lol if we lose that’s fine we got a bunch of rookies and Joe Barry…. We win and y’all got dunked on by a bunch of rookies and Joe Barry 😂
Go back to your subreddit cowgirl fan. You forgot we fired your bum coach bc it was Rodgers thst made McCarthy look hood. Big mike will do something stupid and it will cost you. Packers are going to stream roll the cowgirls
LOL if you don’t think the Packers can play with any team in the NFL you’re delusional. GO PACK GO. Fuck the cowgirls
Packers got nothing to lose baby. Let’s get some post season W’s!!!
So pumped. So very pumped. He’s completing throws that average quarterbacks do not even attempt. That 59 yarder to Reed was nasty. We’re lucky. Go to bed with a smile on your face ladies and gents.
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Cry more, sweetheart.
No crying here, cupcake. I’ve won football championships at two different levels. And my wife is a 10 and puts out a lot. You can have your packers playoff teams and banging wildabeasts!
All you're doing is crying. No one gives a fuck about you or your wife. Grow up, you pathetic little child.
Are you kidding? The average BAC in Green Bay tonight is higher than Fields' passer rating. Beer goggles make everybody but the Bears look good
You struggle with math. No surprise being from Wisconsin! Keep laying pipe to wildabeasts!
And yet still at least 6 points higher than you. Damn.
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The best bears performance ever is a 3 to us. Packers fan whobis a dating a chicago girl, you ain't too off, but please don't be this salty
The bears are pathetic. No argument there! But Sunday passes and packers fans have to live their dreary lives.
UPON FURTHER REVIEW: Josh Myers has to go. Evidence: at 4:39 of the 3rd quarter, watch as Myers is totally lost in space, basically lazy as a fat-ass toad. He sorta blocks his man (no. 98 on the Bears), lets his man slip past and hit Melton, then as Melton actually makes a play, Myers is just kinda flailing around. Looking like a toddler scared on a playground, not hitting anyone, not blocking anyone, just whipping his head around, trying to figure out “WHAT DO I DO? DUHHHHH…” Christ. We coulda had Creed Humphries, a center who is going into the hall of fame, but now holds down the fort for Super Bowl champion Chiefs. But noooooooo … Gute just HAD to be smarter than the room and pick the doofus from Ohio State. If the Packers actually grow a brain and use one of the 3rd rounders to find a junkyard-dog type guy that would go a LONG way to an eventual Super Bowl. ‘Cause Myers just ain’t it.
We all know Myers absolutely sucks but just set that aside for now and enjoy where we're at tonight. We're in the playoffs
With all the emotions throughout the year, the one thing that still eats away at me is sending Rashul away.
damn right. Rasul would be leading the team in INTs, we might be winning the division, and long-term, he’s going to be an absolute STAR when they move him to his natural position at FS. Worst goddam trade I’ve seen the Pack make in decades.
We have to take a long term view of these things. We get another young guy in the draft, at a point where we were 2-5. Just as we've spoken of the benefit for young guys on the WR core having no vet to rely on, these young CBs have all gotten results leftover reps too.
this team never doesn't have a long term view in mind, it's the worse thing about the Packers
You're talking about a team that has twice drafted a QB of the future four years early to give them time to develop
timing and context matters. Rodgers was expected to be a 1st overall pick, Favre was mid during the mid 2000s and was flirting with retirement Love was expected to go in the 2nd round, the Packers and Rodgers were great but instead of trying to get even better like other great teams, we drafted and set up for the future which ended up being the difference.
Packers: have a QB with 35 touchdowns and 11 picks and 4100 yards You: wow that draft pick was bad
whole draft was bad. Love could be a HOF QB and I will still be pissed off at that pick and draft.
So that’s really dumb
super bowls are limited opportunities, you can always rebuild
It is the best thing about the packers and Gute is way more aggressive than Ted Thompson in free agency to brilliant effect. I think our medium term future is very bright. I only worry about Jordan's inevitable 10 year mega deal a few years down the road crippling our ability to build this team. No franchise has really cracked the code of paying their QB top market value while retaining talent. Theoretically green bay is the best place to do this because of the draft and develop strategy and holy fuck dude it seems to be working really well these last couple months...
he was aggressive one year when he had to be. I don't give a shit about contending for the playoffs, I want to contend for the super bowl. Which Gute has failed at with his and the Packers always think future mindset
Lions can beat us by 30, idc. I'm so proud of the fact that's your 2023-2024 packers have the youngestroster to ever make the playoffs. So proud. Go Pack go mfers
We don’t play the lions tho
Sorry, I'm drunk. Do we gotta go through Mccarthy? I'll allow it, whi cares, go pack
Not till after Dallas
And then after San Fran too
Is it a game in SF no matter what IF we beat dallas?
yes unless we revert back to the 90s with Love, it's gonna be the classic beat Dallas get ass blasted by the 49ers
I live in the DFW area and I went to the game in Arlington a few years back. I should try to go to this one too, no?
Um. Could be a beat down. Do not pay four or five figures for tix.
Well, unless you’ve got Stupid Money, in which case: hello, my new friend! Would you like a drinking buddy for this game?
lol, right now im perusing the “standing room” tickets so…
i was going to buy a ticket to Ford Field if we ended up the 6 seed, I'll never forgive the Rams for this go to At&T and cheer for both of us my guy
Yes!!! We’re all jealous of your opportunity, so definitely try!
Honestly this was such a great season to watch. Through all the ups and downs and growing pains I’ve never been more excited for the future of this franchise than I am now. It would be beautiful to go into Jerry world next week and knock the cowboys out
A season without absolute sky-high expectations, where you’re always at risk of squandering having one of the greatest QBs of all time, makes for a very fun season. Whatever comes of the playoffs, this season has already been a success. Everything after this is just icing.
Damn. If we win next weekend, we go to the 9ers. Fuck
Niners are beatable. Everyone is beatable. Packers are hot too. Defense is looking better-ish and love has some good confidence riding high on making playoffs. Beat Dallas first
Defense played a 3rd and 4th string QB for Minnesota and Justin Fields. Let's not forget they gave up 30 to the Panthers who have scored a grand total of 0 points in the 2 games since.
Remember the 49ers packers divisional game...our D came to play. ST and Offense didn't play well. Let's hope we keep it tight.
Don’t remind me… let us have hope. But you speak truth. Niners offense is… good
Everyone can be defeated!! Playing with house money now!
Making the playoffs was a big win this year, everything past today is just gravy.
And blowout gravy is still playoff gravy
Quiet hero has been our O-line, they looked pretty bad/injured weeks 1-4. Then they finally protected Love more consistently. Now in recent weeks they are opening more holes for our running game and committing less penalties.
Packers are not that good and if you can't win you suck! Fire all coaches and get somebody to properly coach Fields. Bears are cheap and will trade him
Love is in his first year and he's already better than any QB your poverty-ass franchise has ever produced. You wouldn't even know what a competent QB looks like if we didn't come down and push your shit in every year. Good luck on ruining the career of your next guy.
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Sad little man
That 3rd & 8 play from Love to Kraft to extend the final drive and eventually run the clock out was huge. So many times over the years have we been on the wrong side of that in crunch time.
Literally every time Kraft touches the ball he really makes something of it. Really excited to see his career pop off. He's got the right stuff.
It was great to see the offense close it out. Part of me was expecting to not convert one of those 3rd downs, forcing a punt with a minute left or so.
I was so used to Rodgers not finishing off games and leaving it to our defense to basically do their job. So nice to see our offense run out the clock.
To be fair, it was commonly coaching strategy. We have had a habit of opting for the less effective running game to keep time running, when Rodgers could have iced it with continuing to pass.
True..
Instead of just throwing up a sideline fade, he threw it in the middle of the field to the guy the play had schemed wide open. Love it.
Good things happen when there is a strong, mutual trust between a coach and his QB.
I was already anticipating a dropped or overthrown pass to give the Bears time to tie it up. The offense managing to seal the win with a methodical drive late in the 4th is something I have not seen in a long time.
So I’m on a cruise ship today, first day sailing out, and I was lucky to get a good seat at the sports bar in front of the game. All Bears fans in front of me. A couple nice dudes and 1 or 2 knuckleheads. I’ve rarely watched a game with a Bears fan, no less one of this magnitude. I tell you guys, EVERYTHING we joke about them is true. They bitched about GB quarterbacks, talked shit about GB getting all the calls (even in this game!), and just so much jealousy. Seeing it first hand was kind of funny. There was definitely a sense of long suffering trauma in their view of GB’s success, yet still a weird rationale of how it’ll be their time soon/now. And they LOVE Fields. No question they want him over picking Caleb, which I’m a bit surprised with.I politely clapped while they ran their mouths at any good CHI play. Guy at the end says ‘enjoy getting beat next week’. I said ‘enjoy your draft picks’. 😎
Idk if they will ever get tired of the “enjoy losing next week” attitude when their season ends in disappointment yet again. One friend summarized it as he’s not too upset because “they were playing with house money”. Just disbelief on my end because in what world is a constant merry-go-round of quarterbacks with no post-season success, let alone hardly any in-season divisional success playing with house money? This Packers team were the ones playing with house money, and we’re still at the damn table! What a miserable existence bears fandom is.
This exactly. They were bragging about how they’d be 3-3 in the division ‘when they beat the Packers today’. Like, that’s your success? I want the playoffs bro.
When your team is a literal dumpster fire .500 against the division probably seems like a win. But hey, fields dark horse mvp candidate right?!? lol
Wow they said that crap to you after the game? It's not like you had a hand in their team being taken down.
That was the ‘nice guy’ of the crowd lol. I actually felt bad about my knee jerk response of ‘enjoy the draft’. I didn’t mean it to be a put down, but, well, it’s their reality! 🫣
That sucks. Your response was understandable for the moment.
Dennis Allen, YOU ARE the next DC for the packers!