Bears hold off Packers 17-13, spoiling Brett Favre’s night; offence struggles

“I think the offense has evolved a lot since that first week”, quarterback Jay Cutler said. Rather, it carried serious weight.

“The preparation on the field, I was very pleased with it, but we’re not getting it done in the classroom”.

This home loss for the Packers marks their second straight home loss, to a second divisional opponent, bringing their reacord to 7-4.

Green Bay Packers’ Aaron Rodgers walks off the field after failing to complete on fourth down in the final seconds of an NFL football game against the Chicago Bears Thursday, Nov. 26, 2015, in Green Bay, Wis. The Bears won 17-13. Two of the three teams ranked above them in wild-card odds play Sunday: the Vikings and Falcons. When I watch him, he’s good….

“Those are what we refer to as critical plays in the game, and we’ve got to do a better job converting those opportunities”, McCarthy said. He was right there at 90.8 in Green Bay, rebounding from a slow start to go 19 of 31 passing for 200 yards and TD. This team was supposed to be in rebuilding mode considering its lack of talent on both sides of the football, but the Bears have been winning with players the average football fan has never heard before. A third-and-seven completion got a first down to the Bears’ eight as the familiar narrative was ready to transpire. Having missed essentially four games with an ankle injury suffered in Week 2 against Seattle, Adams has 32 receptions for 322 yards and no touchdowns with five games left in the regular season. “And most importantly, I thank you”. “There was contact there, I don’t know if it was (within) 5 (yards), I haven’t seen the film yet”. “I don’t even remember the last time that we left this stadium, honestly”, Cutler said.

The tone for Adams’ night was set during the Packers’ second drive, when on third-and-11 from the Chicago 47-yard line, he beat cornerback Tracy Porter badly and was wide open for what likely would have been a touchdown. It’s certainly logical for the Packers to punish Lacy for his shoddy ball handling. Cutler cashed in on Chicago’s next drive by finding Zach Miller for a 3-yard touchdown pass that tied it at 7 with 6:03 left in the half.

-WR James Jones didn’t catch any of the six passes thrown his way a week after a 100-yard receiving performance at Minnesota.

On the next play, Kuechly made a nifty over-the-head catch on a ball thrown to Jason Witten. “We just got a group of guys who are unselfish and ready to do whatever it takes to win games”. “Their receivers were catching it”. They were coming off a disheartening loss to the Broncos and going up on a short week to play a team that has beaten them all but twice since 2010 in the Green Bay Packers.

Chicago capitalized, with Cutler dodging a sack and firing a 10-yard pass to wide receiver Marc Mariani to convert a third-and-4. There also were plenty of drops in the wet conditions.

The standoff between the Packers’ offense and the Bears’ defense at the end of the game was possibly a season-changing turn of events for the Bears as a team moving forward.

“It’s a basic route”, he said. Over the last three weeks, when Rodgers throws to anyone other than Adams, he’s 58-for-103 for 618 yards with five touchdowns and no interceptions. “So it was a gift interception there for Porter”.

Rodgers has been targeting Adams a ton, but the results just aren’t there.