I'm thinking completely logically and I STILL would have preferred for us to let them score. I would rather take the CHANCE of having almost a minute to score rather than the chance of Gould missing such a short kick.

That's my opinion. You happen to think that it would be absolutely impossible for us to score in under a minute mostly due to penalties. That's fine and I can understand how one might think that, but I just don't agree. I think the probability of us scoring was greater than a missed kick. Call it rising to the moment, an exception, whatever, but I would take those chances with our offense.

I'm not even very emotional about the game. If we played SLIGHTLY better, we would have easily won. We didn't and we lost. Fine. I'm confident that the Packers won't continue to play that bad and that we will make the playoffs.

"doddpower" wrote:

9-R.Gould kicks 42 yards from CHI 30 to GB 28. 87-J.Nelson to GB 19 for -9 yards. Lateral to 21-C.Woodson to GB 14 for -5 yards. Lateral to 80-D.Driver to GB 14 for no gain. 80-D.Driver pass short right to 89-J.Jones to GB 19 for 5 yards. FUMBLES, recovered by GB-29-D.Martin at GB 16. 29-D.Martin to GB 11 for -5 yards. Lateral to 85-G.Jennings to GB 6 for -5 yards. Lateral to 38-T.Williams to GB 31 for 25 yards. 38-T.Williams pass incomplete short right to 85-G.Jennings. PENALTY on GB-80-D.Driver, Illegal Forward Pass, 0 yards, enforced at GB 14. Penalty on GB-38-T.Williams, Illegal Forward Pass, declined.

I guess I'm missing something here.

Let's get this figured out.

Okay, say Coach doesn't do the challenge, we have an extra time out. We let the Bears walk in, providing of course they don't kneel down as we've seen players do in the past, (Westbrook). They make the extra point.

Score 17 - 24 with let's say 1:00 left and we have a time out or two.

We let the ball go out of the endzone for a touchback, putting us on the 20.

Down to :56


We drive all the way down the field, score, tie the game. No flags, everything somehow magically lined up for us.


OVERTIME.

We lose the toss ... ONO's we kick to a good returning team with an offense that seemed to play with us at the end.

Cutler throws a pick that's ran back for a touchdown. We win the game.



That's a pseudo best case scenario.



That is the best for the fans, but is that the best for the team? Sure, you guys can play down right awful and don't deserve to win, but win anyhow ... and when coach is barking bout penalties the team can say 'but coach we had 17 flags dropped and STILL won'. 18 flags if you want to say we'd still have done the lateral stuff at the end of the game.







Even if we tie the game, I don't see us winning it in overtime. We couldn't do anything but shoot ourselves in the foot the 2nd half, they gave no evidence they'd turn it around in over time.

"Zero2Cool" wrote:

I guess I'm missing something here.

Let's get this figured out.

Okay, say Coach doesn't do the challenge, we have an extra time out. We let the Bears walk in, providing of course they don't kneel down as we've seen players do in the past, (Westbrook). They make the extra point.

Score 17 - 24 with let's say 1:00 left and we have a time out or two.

We let the ball go out of the endzone for a touchback, putting us on the 20.

Down to :56


We drive all the way down the field, score, tie the game. No flags, everything somehow magically lined up for us.


OVERTIME.

We lose the toss ... ONO's we kick to a good returning team with an offense that seemed to play with us at the end.

Cutler throws a pick that's ran back for a touchdown. We win the game.



That's a pseudo best case scenario.



That is the best for the fans, but is that the best for the team? Sure, you guys can play down right awful and don't deserve to win, but win anyhow ... and when coach is barking bout penalties the team can say 'but coach we had 17 flags dropped and STILL won'. 18 flags if you want to say we'd still have done the lateral stuff at the end of the game.







Even if we tie the game, I don't see us winning it in overtime. We couldn't do anything but shoot ourselves in the foot the 2nd half, they gave no evidence they'd turn it around in over time.

"Zero2Cool" wrote:

"doddpower" wrote:

Even if we tie the game, I don't see us winning it in overtime. We couldn't do anything but shoot ourselves in the foot the 2nd half, they gave no evidence they'd turn it around in over time.

"Zero2Cool" wrote: