Chicago Bears Stun Green Bay Packers at Lambeau Field, 17-13
When the team needed a big stop at the end of the game, the defense applied pressure to Rodgers, and he had nowhere to throw the football because of Chicago’s coverage in the end zone.
“We were eating a lot of cheese out there”, Porter quipped to NBC Sports after the game.
Stafford said he “for sure wanted to go for it” late rather than leave the game in the hands of Aaron Rodgers, and Cooter obliged with several downfield passes and an end-around to Golden Tate. He outplayed Rodgers, who was 22 of 43 for 202 yards and a touchdown. “The more and more we play with each other, the better we will become”.
In his four previous games at Green Bay, all losses, Cutler had thrown 12 interceptions. However, the drive ended with a fourth-down incompletion from the Chicago 8-yard line.
The highlight for Green Bay turned out to be the return of Favre, whose name and No. 4 was unveiled at halftime with the club’s other retired numbers.
That was one of the few things the Bears didn’t accomplish.
“Looking at guys in that locker room that had been here for a minute and maybe not had great success here, Jay included”.
“They’re all so hard to get”, Fox said.
The Bears, winners of three of their past four, face a struggling 49ers team December 6.
The Packers (7-4) have now lost 4 of their last 5 games. “[It’s] disappointing”, Packers Coach Mike McCarthy said at his postgame news conference. The Packers caught a break after Cutler mishandled a shotgun snap on third-and-11 to set up a punt.
Chicago has finally gotten a colossal burden off their shoulders, and with that tremendous boost of confidence will come a wave they might be able to ride all the way to the playoffs.
It put ball security at a premium. On the defensive side of the ball, the Bears’ unit had two takeaways – both of which proved to be game changers. We had the opportunities to win this game. The hulking running back ran for 105 yards on 17 carries and caught four passes for 34 yards and a touchdown.
The play knocked the Packers out of field-goal range, and Chicago took advantage with a long scoring drive that resulted in kicker Robbie Gould’s 21-yard field goal for a 17-13 lead with 12:15 remaining.
This comes two weeks after Adams was targeted 22 times and managed just 10 catches for 79 yards in the loss to Detroit.
Ryan didn’t reveal the nature of the injury but noted he doesn’t expect Williams to miss more than one game.
Bears quarterback Jay Cutler has been notoriously bad against the Packers, having been swept by the Bears’ archrival in the majority of his seasons in Chicago. But we came in with the mentality that we weren’t gonna leave Lambeau without a win. He is tied with Cardinals WR Larry Fitzgerald (six games vs. Philadelphia) for the longest current TD streak in the league against one opponent to start a career.