ESPN did the math for that situation. Stopping them from scoring, teams win 4% of the time. Teams who let them score with more than a minute remaining, won 8% of the time. That's a HUGE improvement in chance.
Trent Dilfer says you never let a team score on you, it goes against everything you've been taught and can cause problems later.
Ray Lewis says there's no other option, you let them score and let Rodgers continue his dominating performance.
I thought those two would be flipped around. Former QB says stop them, current LB says let'em score and give it to the offense.
After watching the game again for the highlights, our offense was unstoppable, aside from ourselves. Bears defense though is bend don't break, so that's expected.
I was fine with either decision before, but after watching the game and the tempo ... I'm going to have to say I'd rather us have let the Bears scored on 1st down on the 9 or even 2nd on the 3. Our offense was very good those last two drives, but Peppers was out most of them, BUT so was Finley.
The 2nd to last run of the game was not a kneel down play by any stretch in my opinion. I seen Matt Forte (i think) lunge forward to the end zone. You can NOT kneel down in mid air. My original thinking was wrong on the runs.
I got caught up too much on the penalties and let that sway my thinking. Guess I'm just extremely disgusted that we have the same players, making the same mistakes, year in, year out.