2007 NFL Playoffs thread

RobVarak · Post by **RobVarak** » Sun Feb 04, 2007 4:11 pm

3 hours 'til kickoff. I just might make it

Everyone enjoy the game, and best of luck to my fellow Bears fans...

Bear down!

sportdan30 · Post by **sportdan30** » Sun Feb 04, 2007 5:41 pm

Looks like rain is in the forecast. Advantage Bears.

Did I say advantage Bears? Advantage Colts. Hold on to the dang ball Grossman!

Dave · Post by **Dave** » Sun Feb 04, 2007 6:17 pm

Just kick off the damn ball already!

Not a shock, but I'm taking Dr. Tango and the Colts.

pk500 · Post by **pk500** » Sun Feb 04, 2007 6:24 pm

My key for victory remains the same one hour before kickoff as it did one hour after the championship games two weeks ago: The team with the better offensive line play hoists Vince's silver trophy in five hours.

For all of the hype about Manning, Harrison, Wayne, Grossman, Urlacher, Clark, Jones and Benson, this game will be won and lost by the front five on offense for both teams.

Put the pig in the air!

Take care,
PK

ddtrane · Post by **ddtrane** » Sun Feb 04, 2007 6:32 pm

I'll take the Bears. If the front four of the Bears d-line get pressure without any blitzing, then the Bears in a rout.

Wasn't Florida a 10 point underdog?

Templehorn · Post by **Templehorn** » Sun Feb 04, 2007 6:46 pm

I'm so nervous right now I might as well be suiting up. Go Bears!

10spro · Post by **10spro** » Sun Feb 04, 2007 6:49 pm

The game could actually be decided by the Bears' offence versus the Colts' defence, even though the common wisdom is that it's got to be the other way around. Both teams will try to establish the run, though the Bears are more likely to stay with it longer, because the alternative is putting their fate in Grossman's erratic hands. That is what the Colts' defenders are hoping for, but they have to stop T. Jones and C. Benson first, and the Bears' running game is relentless.

As B. Johnson and T. Dilfer have proven in the past, you don't have to be a big name QB to win the big price, so Grossman can rally his team if he can hand the ball off, throw safe passes, doesn't fumble and doesn't throw picks.

Just BEAR-ly but I pick the Colts. 30-27.

pk500 · Post by **pk500** » Sun Feb 04, 2007 7:19 pm

Bears +7
OVER

Take care,
PK

tjung0831 · Post by **tjung0831** » Sun Feb 04, 2007 8:38 pm

If the Colts didn't have that 2nd turnover, this game would have been over at halftime.

ddtrane · Post by **ddtrane** » Sun Feb 04, 2007 9:20 pm

tjung0831 wrote:If the Colts didn't have that 2nd turnover, this game would have been over at halftime.

What about the 3rd turnover?

tjung0831 · Post by **tjung0831** » Sun Feb 04, 2007 9:46 pm

ddtrane wrote:
tjung0831 wrote:If the Colts didn't have that 2nd turnover, this game would have been over at halftime.
What about the 3rd turnover?

They could have 5 or 6 turnovers and I don't think it's going to matter with that Bears offense.

XXXIV · Post by **XXXIV** » Sun Feb 04, 2007 10:12 pm

Who else hates it when the ref who has the bad view comes in and changes the correct call?

Cmon Grossman hold the f***in ball asshole!

pk500 · Post by **pk500** » Sun Feb 04, 2007 10:13 pm

After three, the Colts have run the ball when they wanted, and the Bears haven't laid a finger on Manning. Meanwhile, Grossman has been under pressure, and the Bears haven't run well other than Jones' long run early.

O-line advantage: Colts. Scoreboard advantage: Colts.

Take care,
PK

XXXIV · Post by **XXXIV** » Sun Feb 04, 2007 10:27 pm

Grossman it is up to you now unless Hester can strike again.

Cmon Rex show em what ya got!

Dave · Post by **Dave** » Sun Feb 04, 2007 10:27 pm

Jeff Saturday has been the MVP so far. The dude's been crushing linemen and LBs on top of being the O-line QB.

This game is faaaaar from over though.

wco81 · Post by **wco81** » Sun Feb 04, 2007 10:32 pm

No patience.

First that ill-advised double move lob and now this other bomb.

That's not entirely Grossman, it has to be the playcalling.

Other than those passes, Rex had a high QBR.

Dave · Post by **Dave** » Sun Feb 04, 2007 10:34 pm

I

Bad Rex

XXXIV · Post by **XXXIV** » Sun Feb 04, 2007 10:35 pm

Dave wrote:I Bad Rex

It aint over yet...Bears D can still score...so can Rexxy.

Dave · Post by **Dave** » Sun Feb 04, 2007 10:36 pm

Oh, I know. I just hope Good Rex is lost.

What an awful f*cking possession by the Colts.

10spro · Post by **10spro** » Sun Feb 04, 2007 10:51 pm

Everyone likes to blame it on R. Grossman, matter of factly the Bear's running game is non existent, the O-line didn't get a hand on Manning until the fourth quarter and not enough D. Hester.

Now how about that Colts's D. Very impressive IMO and under wet conditions too. Manning for MVP.

wco81 · Post by **wco81** » Sun Feb 04, 2007 10:54 pm

May not be fair but the Bears may not even end up with 10 first downs in this game.

The worst things Grossman did before those ints. were those two fumbles, only one lost but the other one killed a drive.

But really it was a long stretch of the Bears offense doing nothing (a key number would be third down conversions) and the Colts repeatedly going down and putting up points after being down 14-6.

Templehorn · Post by **Templehorn** » Sun Feb 04, 2007 10:58 pm

Well congrats to the colts. Bears got beat by the better team so it doesn't hurt that bad. Also the colts coach and players aren't a bunch of jackasses so it's good to see dungy win with all that stuff that happened with his son last year.

It's hard to win big games with half a team. The defense bailed grossman out most of the year, but in these big games it caught up with them. Great game I thought by Urlacher and the defense bending not breaking, but hard to win when you throw up int's that get run back for tds. I guess it's ironic since we beat teams like that all year

Don't know why down 5 they went throwing the ball when they could have run it , but thats football. Even when they were down 5, it never felt that the bears had control of the game.

Next year, we better get a f***in real qb. Think if we had signed Brees this year, I'd sure know we'd have a better shot to win the SB than we did today in that 4th qtr. I dont think the rest of the team will believe in Rex anymore after this game.

I'll still wear my bears gear proudly at work tomorrow. Knowing how the bears ogranization works, the bears aren't going to even smell the superbowl in the next 20 years. McKaskey/Halas and crew always find a way to mess things up. Most happiest Bear Fans after this loss = DITKA and the 85 Bears. They can have their underachieving (post 85) asses kissed now for another 20 years.

Dave · Post by **Dave** » Sun Feb 04, 2007 11:01 pm

THEY F*CKING DID IT!!!!!!!!!!!!

Wow, all those years (from the beginning in Indy through 98) of going to watch mostly crappy teams...and now they have won the Super Bowl!

Templehorn · Post by **Templehorn** » Sun Feb 04, 2007 11:04 pm

Dave wrote:THEY F*CKING DID IT!!!!!!!!!!!!

Wow, all those years (from the beginning in Indy through 98) of going to watch mostly crappy teams...and now they have won the Super Bowl!

Congrats man.

XXXIV · Post by **XXXIV** » Sun Feb 04, 2007 11:04 pm

Grossman was bad ...yeah.... but so was the rest of the team....

Give credit where its due...The better team won....usually the case.

Grats to the Colts ...they dominated...if not for weather and a kick return this would have been a blowout.