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The question before the Peanut Gallery today: Is Jordan Love that good or the Bears that bad?
The answer: Yes!
The Head Groundskeeper had his doubts, mainly due to the law of averages, that Brett Favre would beget Aaron Rodgers would beget a third-straight Hall of Fame quarterback. Favre resented Rodgers’ selection and Rodgers took Love’s pick none too well, either.
On the other hand, Jordan Love could turn out to be the Green Bay Packer equivalent of UW Badger QB Graham Mertz — his first game off the charts great and then all downhill. (We are convinced that former Coach Paul Chryst ruined him.) (Sorry, Luke Fickell, but the honeymoon IS over!)
Still, hard to argue with a passer rating of 123.2! Hard to argue because no one outside of NASA knows how that number is computed. But it’s a big number and it compares to Justin Fields’ rating of 21.7. Fields is the Bears quarterback who led his team to a 38-20 defeat Sunday 09-10-23.
The Bears traded the Number One overall pick in the last college draft to a) keep Fields and b) get a receiver who caught all of two passes for 25 yards Sunday at Soldier-on Field.
Credit Coach LaFleur and his staff for bringing Love on carefully and not breaking his spirit, as (it appears) Fields’ spirit has been. Credit also the Packers defense — 35 pressures, the second-most of any team in Week One; Bears had 6. Credit also the front office, for spotting young talent like receivers Romeo Doubs, Jayden Reed, and Christian Watson, kickers Anders Carlson and Daniel Whelan, and tight end Luke Musgrave.
As a connoisseur of schadenfreude, let’s dip below the state line to revel in the Flatlanders’ misery:
It was a brutal game from start to finish.
— Bears Wire
The Bears’ offense was a debacle, and Fields was at the center of it with minimal passing production, a lost fumble and a pick-six.
— Chicago Sun Times
The Chicago Bears lost in embarrassing fashion to the Green Bay Packers. Another year, more wasted potential in the Windy City.
— Fan Sided
Understatement of the week: Justin Fields on loss to Packers: 'We have a lot of room to improve, room to grow.'
‘It sucks, it hurts’ — Bears QB Justin Fields
— NBC Sports
Chicago Bears were outplayed, outcoached and outclassed by the Green Bay Packers on the Week 1 stage.
— Chicago Tribune (pay wall)
Love could be a problem for Bears’ defense for years to come.
— Bleacher Report
Bears corner market in excuses after loss.
— Sports Illustrated
Blaska’s Bottom Line: With nine straight wins, 15 of last 16 games, Packers prove it is better to own than to rent.
11 responses to “We still own them!”
On the road, without their best receiver and with green-as-green can be TEs? Heck; what’s not to like, am I right?
Anywho, good things happen when the ball’s in the hands of the ever-elusive AJ (who took a five rock pay cut to stay with the 13 Time World Champion Green Bay Packers); get it there more often!
Too bad that p!$$ant Disney snit keeps ESPN’s Pardon The Interruption unavailable on Spectrum, we’ll (heh!) miss the veins popping out of Wilbon’s forehead as he surrenders to a fact-based Reality and rips his hopelessly pathetic Bi-Polar bares a new one this afternoon.
Why the heck wasn’t 2022 1000 yard + returner extraordinaire Keisean Nixon fielding kicks?
You considering reconciling with Quay Walker…
GO PACKERS!!!?
The Gotch
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Strange, we haven’t heard from Dick about this game.
Heh!
The Gotch
Is this all you got on 9/11?
Packers looked very capable. But let’s be honest it’s not like they pitched a shutout.
Danny Jones… “Look How They Massacred My Boy” 😭
HOW ‘BOUT THEM COWBOYS!?!?
If you want to read truly whimperingly abject Bi-Polar bare despair, give windycitygridirion.com’s SmokinJerm’s I’m So Tired Man a read.
WORST_TEAM_IN_FOOTBALL!
GO PACKERS!!!
The Gotch
I can’t offer much in the way of economic theory to support my point, but in this case, collective ownership CAN be satisfying.
It’s more than ownership the way the Cheeseheads treat the Bears; it’s cruelty to animals.
think of the Jets. 75 million—4 snaps—poof.
Must listening after a Packers win over the Bears is AM 670/sports radio in Chicago. Oh, the humanity!
Glass half full?
The monumentally inept Bi-Polar bares actually outscore the 13 Time World Champion Green Bay Packers 35-3 in a…um…key demographic…Starting QBs Since 1992.
The ONLY thing more pitiable than the historically pathetic midgets of the midway?
Their laughably clueless (heh!) fan base!
One more thing:
After Further Review, The bares STILL SUCK!!
GO PACKERS!!!
The Gotch