Rookie CB Quinten Rollins had a potential interception in his hands but couldn’t hang on.
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Cutler, who was 1-11 against the Packers as Chicago’s quarterback, led the Bears to a big upset of first-place Green Bay, 17-13 at rainy Lambeau Field. This team was supposed to be in rebuilding mode considering its lack of talent on both sides of the football, but the Bears have been winning with players the average football fan has never heard before.
McCarthy critical of penalty on Jones:Jones was flagged for offensive pass interference Thursday when officials said he picked the defender covering Randall Cobb. “That’s the last thing we talked about”.
Favre’s successor at quarterback stayed in the game after appearing to hurt his left arm in the third quarter after getting hit from behind near the elbow by linebacker Lamarr Houston while recovering a high snap. 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. Over the last three weeks, when Aaron Rodgers throws to Adams, he’s completed just 15 of his 35 attempts for 129 yards with no touchdowns and one interception.
The Bears did not hold the ball on offense as much as the Green Bay Packers but when they did, they were efficient. Green Bay may walk into January regardless due to the benign NFC playoff race, but it’s uncertain whether the offense would it be able to scrap together the balanced performances necessary for a Super Bowl run.
It also provided the Bears with a sense of revenge because they felt the Packers scheduled them as a soft “homecoming” type opponent for the retirement of Brett Favre’s jersey number.
“Looking at guys in that locker room that had been here for a minute and maybe not had great success here, Jay included”. It’s hard to believe how fast Fangio and Fox have turned around one of the worst defenses in the NFL. The result was a 17-13 win, the third in the last four for the Bears and the eighth in Cutler’s last nine with a passer rating of 88 or better.
“Difficult loss this evening”.
It’s not the play calling, he said.
“What I see is, without question, one of the top quarterbacks that ever played the game”, Caldwell said. “Those power runners, when they fight for extra yardage, sometimes the first thing that gets sloppy is the ball security”. Jeffrey would finish with 7 catches for 90 yards and the Bears needed all of those on Thursday night. “Catch the ball. That’s our job, we’re receivers – catch it”. But we are having them; it was a short week, now we have a normal week and then a break.
For the Bears, Jeremy Langford had 48 yards and a touchdown on 12 carries.
“When they do that, we’ve got to run the ball”.
After leading the league in points last season, Green Bay is scoring about seven points less per game this season.
The defense made the biggest statement.
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“Huge win”, cornerback Tracy Porter declared. “We’re going to have to go in there and get a win”. The former Raiders cornerback earning a spot in Bears history with one of the best games of his career on Thanksgiving night.
