Tracy Porter, who intercepted Rodgers in the fourth quarter, is recreating a name for himself since his Super Bowl XLIV performance with the New Orleans Saints.
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Jay Cutler threw for 200 yards and a score, and the Bears held off the Packers on fourth-and-goal from the 8 with 22 seconds left for a 17-13 victory Thursday at Lambeau Field.
In his first year in Chicago, Fox has instilled confidence in his team that they can hang tough in close games. “It speaks a lot about the players and what kind of character and what kind of players we have on that side”.
“We always accept the challenge”. He said he lost feeling for a while in his left hand, gradually regaining full feeling in three fingers by the end of the game. Rodgers was 22-of-43 for 202 yards with a touchdown and an interception on a night that saw him target James Jones and Davante Adams frequently without finding success. After Starr, 81, suffered two strokes, a heart attack and multiple seizures and nearly died last fall, his family had said this almost certainly would be his last trip to Green Bay.
Talk at Halas Hall the next week will center around the Bears’ coordinators because their next opponent, San Francisco, interviewed both defensive coordinator Vic Fangio and offensive coordinator Adam Gase before deciding against both.
The Green Bay Packers just can’t seem to help themselves.
“He’s shown a lot of toughness to all of his teammates and the coaching staff. He’s working extremely hard”, Fox said about Cutler.
That’s what happens when you beat the Packers at Lambeau, when Jay Cutler outplays Aaron Rodgers, when the defense shows as much improvement as any in the NFL.
The Packers fell to 7-4 in the game and they temporarily fell out of first place in the NFC North, as Minnesota is 7-3 and has not played yet this week.
“Difficult loss this evening”.
“We didn’t get it done tonight and really I think one of the biggest factors was handling the football”, McCarthy said.
But McCarthy’s offense couldn’t capitalize, moving quickly up the field on their final two drives only to come up short. In the second quarter, he fumbled at the end of a 15-yard run.
It put ball security at a premium.
The Bears had three-and-out punts on four of their first five possessions but took over at the Packers’ 34-yard line in middle of the second quarter when Prosinski stripped Lacy from behind, with Houston recovering.
The exceptions were Marc Mariani with an A- after Cutler targeted him three times on third down – twice on the Bears first touchdown drive – and he converted all three with catches for 10, four and 21 yards.
McCarthy acknowledged after the game that Adams “didn’t have a very good day”. “There’s nothing like it. I thank them so much for being so supportive all these years”, Favre said. “I don’t know the final numbers, but we would’ve probably liked to have a few more attempts”. “We are running out of time and we have to find a way to turn it around fast”.
Eddie Lacy led the Packers with 105 rushing yards on 17 carries and despite all of his efforts and an overall efficient ground game from the Packers, they were not able to come out on top. Sutton has been replaced on defense by Mitch Unrein and Bruce Gaston, who are bigger and play more stout.
“A huge win for this team”, safety Chris Prosinski said. “Games that we have won we have figured out a way to do that and games we lost, we haven’t”.
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It’s ambitious to think the Bears could actually finish the season on a six-game winning streak, but it’s not ambitious to think they’ll have a realistic chance to win all of those games. Rookie CB Damarious Randall (knee) and RT Bryan Bulaga (ankle) left the game for the Packers…. A 23-yard catch-and-run by Cobb was the key play.
