A win over Green Bay will go a long way in Barkley’s claim for the starting job in 2017, assuming Jay Cutler has played his last down in Chicago. The Chargers soon must exercise their option to move to Los Angeles, and any stadium deals to remain in San Diego appear to be a long shot. The NFL’s ninth-leading rusher has racked up 969 yards and five touchdowns on 194 carries this season. Christine Michael also got into the act with a 42-yard touchdown, giving the Packers their first game with three rushing scores since Week 16 of the 2013 season against Pittsburgh.
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For the Chicago Bears, Sunday’s game against the Green Bay Packers started out as a rotten day for the Monsters of the Midway, but they stormed back into the thick of things with a couple of incredible drives to trim a 27-10 lead all the way down to 27-24 late in the contest.
With the win and the Detroit Lions loss to the New York Giants, Green Bay is officially in control of their own destiny.
The Packers will finish the regular season against NFC North rivals, playing Chicago, Minnesota and Detroit in its next three games. It kept them in the game and provided hope for the second half; hope that would soon dissipate with three third-quarter turnovers.
“It’ll be about pain management on Sunday, but the good thing is I’ll be out there”, said Rodgers, who torched the Bears for 326 yards and three scores on 56 pass attempts in a 26-10 win on October 20. Style points don’t count for much. The Packers are 8-6, they host the Vikings on Christmas Eve.
But then, it’s hard to deny how well he played outside of that bad 3rd-quarter stretch. We were taking it on the chin, rightfully so, from the media. Stick around. We’ve got all of the pre-game analysis before the match-up. Arguments can be made either way here, so the coaching staff didn’t have a wrong option here. “Maybe McCarthy called the play”.
A legitimate MVP candidate, Matthew Stafford has shown unprecedented resiliency and has willed his team to victory in the final stanza in all but one of the team’s nine wins.
But while Nelson garners most of the attention, Davante Adams has effectively served as the team’s go-to receiver most of the season.
The Bears played with effort and intensity, if not always with National Football League ability, for the better part of 60 minutes, which counts for something when a team is 3-10 and then falls behind 27-10 after three quarters. Sunday’s game would also mark the coldest game in Solider Field history.
Rodgers didn’t practice all week with his calf injury and it was clear it was causing him pain throughout the game. “But it’s close. Change is going to come soon”.
Helmets worn by Packers players didn’t fare so well, either.
When given the opportunity to take a 10-second runoff due to Packers player being down with an injury inside of one minute to play, Fox declined the runoff, allowing the Packers to keep 54 seconds on the clock on 3rd and 11. He hasn’t thrown an interception in over a month while completing just under 69 percent of his passes, with 1,371 yards and 10 touchdowns through the air. “He’s not your normal looking receiver”, Fangio said.
Watching winning football apparently is too much to ask.
But that’s just it: The Bears don’t put four good quarters together because they can’t.
POLL: Confidence level in Packers getting NFC North title? The 49ers fell to the Jets in overtime for their 12th consecutive loss after a season-opening shutout of the Rams. With everyone else creating a logjam, it makes more sense to just reward either Brady or Rodgers.
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This, after a 60-yard pass from Aaron Rodgers to Jordy Nelson.
