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What offense wants to play the Bears in Soldier Field?

 

So far it seems like you may get the Vikings in B2B weeks. It may even work out that you rest vs them and they show their hand in week 17 in a must-win game only to be exposed AF for the Wildcard round week.

 

The Chiefs because they honestly are not afraid of any defense.

 

They play in the AFC. The Bears are in the NFC. So that won’t happen.

I was referring to playoffs, not hypotheticals. However, I’m sure they would prefer not to play the Bears at home.

 

Ah sorry thought you meant in general.

The good news for the saints is the bears will have to go to them as likely will everyone else in the NFC.

 

I think the Saints are a really good team, and playing them in NO scares me.

Brees is so fucking smart and just doesn’t make mistakes. Even a great defense like ours can only hold up for so long against that. Eventually he’s gonna figure out a way to burn us consistently.

I predicted it on our board, and I’ll say it again, Goff does nothing for me. And I think the Rams are far worse than their record.

Saints are the team to beat in the NFC, Bears are second because of their defense. And if Trubisky can get over his yips, they can do a little damage and thensome.

 

BTW congrats to Dallas.

 

Trubisky was awful tonight. Fucking AWFUL.

Give the Bears even a mid-tier QB and they win by 21 points.

Typical Bear fan hell. Great defense, shitty quarterbacking. Rinse, repeat.

 

i countered his statement with my own. i like Wentz, but if this was McNabb, they would be calling for his head. Wentz gets a pass every loss. at 6-8 im starting to maybe not believe in him anymore. and that pick in the endzone last week didn't leave me warm and fuzzy either.

 

Cooper was unbeatable, Dallas didn't look as great as before, but a team to fear come January if Cooper can keep up that pace of play. Dez, who?

However, the NFL needs to explain how the opening kickoff was clearly a fumble by video review, pounced by several Eagles and they call -- not enough evidence to overturn the call ? that's the game right there 10 seconds in. that's the Eagles ball on the 20 yard line.

Eagles season is not officially over, but it might as well is.

 

He's been getting ripped - saw him get ripped on Eagles Post-game Live, and this morning on WIP and The Fan.

 

Couple bad calls, no doubt.

 

I have the Steelers missing the playoffs.

 

Steelers will be there, in my opinion. Baltimore is about as up and down as Pittsburgh... I think they battle it out to the last week/game.

 

Vikings lose tonight and the just might miss the Big Show.

 

For the first time all season, an offensive player was penalized for the helmet rule. Officials threw a flag on Cowboys running back Ezekiel Elliott for lowering his head to initiate contact.

“We’re just making some calls here that are tough, but we’re doing it for protection and safety,” Cowboys owner Jerry Jones said. “That’s the biggest question being asked: How do you play?

“. . . I don’t won’t Zeke to stop punishing them on the end of his runs. Upon further review, they both tucked their heads. Zeke is a punishing runner. That’s what we want in the NFL. That is a physical aspect of football that we want to give our fans. I’ll certainly do everything I can to not make those kinds of things penalties.”

Elliott hit Eagles safety Corey Graham at the end of a 14-yard pass. Elliott appeared to get the worst of it, going into the blue medical tent and missing five plays.

Elliott said he briefly lost feeling in his arm.

“I mean when you’re on that sideline, I’ve got to protect myself,” Elliott said. “And if a guy’s going low, I’ve got to go low, too. The rule is meant for the betterment of the game. The rule is for our safety, and if there was illegal helmet-to-helmet contact on there, that’s something I need to go look at and work on. That’s not OK. It’s just a tough play.”

The NFL largely forgot about the “lowering the helmet” rule that raised such a ruckus in the preseason. Through the first 13 weeks of the season, officials had thrown 10 flags for use of helmet, according to Kevin Seifert of ESPN. All were on defensive players.

But the NFL’s senior vice president of officiating, Al Riveron, has called out offensive players on his weekly videos. He has used a play from Raiders running back Doug Martin and Patriots running back Sony Michel as examples of illegal hits under the use-of-the-helmet rule.

Neither Martin nor Michel was fined. The NFL did fine former Chiefs running back Kareem Hunt $26,739 for unnecessary roughness after he lowered his head to run through Broncos safety Justin Simmons earlier this season.

Referee Clete Blakeman, whose crew called the penalty on Elliott on Sunday, said Elliott “initiated the contact against the defender with the helmet as it’s defined in the rule book.”

“It’s hard. It’s a hard game, and what we do is hard,” Blakeman said in a pool report. “But we feel good about that call. A couple of us, actually two of us, had it as the same foul from different angles.” (PFT)

 

good axe - he should! team has the worst record for a defending champion and won't make the playoffs. now all of that is not on wentz, but a lot of it is.

nice win btw. NFC East Champs ! you should've taken the avi bet. i had the Dallas Star all ready to post. haha.

 

fantastic Tim. how the hell did they put that together so fast ? love tecmo bowl. bought an updated NES System to play that and Mike Tyson's punchout last November. Still love playing them.