Best of the Bears: Reactions to thrilling win over Packers in wild-card round
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What were the key moments in the Bears' thrilling win over the Packers?
Olin, good morning. How are you? Good morning, guys. Doing good this morning. Still enjoying the win. I feel like this team got a little payback for me from the 2010 NFC Championship game, so I feel good about that. Crazy game, crazy to rewatch. I heard you guys talking about it this morning. Really, really tough team, man. Tough team, tough mentally, great football character. They compete the whole game, especially the quarterback. And it seems like the whole team rallies behind him and believes because they know they have a guy who can put the ball in the air and attack every part of the field and put the ball in the end zone and score something like, you know, say 25 points in one quarter to win a football game.
I think you were also on the field, Olin, probably the last time the Bears had a victory of this magnitude. And that was the NFC Championship game back during the 2006 season would have been January 2007. And when you start to put this into historical context, you start to go way back in Bears history. I guess the question is, how did they do it? In your mind, yeah, you had Caleb Williams with 25 points in the fourth quarter and all these things, but the defensive turnaround, that was unexpected in the second half. The offensive explosion, they scored more points in the fourth quarter than they had in the previous seven. How do you explain what we all just saw?
Yeah, and put it into perspective, I get a great perspective in my house, right? I have kids from 22 all the way down to 10, right? And I have a 16-year-old girl who's never seen the Bears win a football game like they just won. So historical perspective, I get to watch. No one expects them to beat the Chicago Bears. You're talking about... 2006, they could care less in my house about 2006, right? My kids could care less even about the game against the Seattle Seahawks, right, in the 2010 playoffs. The last time Chicago Bears won a playoff game, and guys, we don't have to say that anymore, but... Just really a game that when you watch, you watch Dennis Allen and a lot of credit to him, you know, changing his scheme and you got guys like DeMarco Jackson on the field because TJ Edwards is out and I hope he gets healthy quickly.
But all of a sudden they're bringing what they call double pro, right? Two corner, double cornerback blitz. First play of the second half, David and Mully, and I'm thinking to myself, well, Dennis Allen said, screw it, man. I'm going to bring the house on these guys, right? And all of a sudden you're watching Tyler Gordon blitz and Jalen Johnson defend the pass. And you're thinking, man, this is what it was supposed to look like, right? This is what we thought we were going to see. And, you know, Billings is out and, you know, are, you know, banged up. And I'm thinking, gosh, how are they going to stop the run? without Andrew Billings, but a few nicely timed blitzes. D-line, they're playing their gaps.
Linebackers makes plays. I don't know about you guys, but I have to check, who the hell is number 16, right? Breeze Maven. Breeze Maven. I'm like, who is this guy? He's blitzing and he's coming free. The thing that Dennis Allen, man, I'd like to know what he said, too, at halftime, along with Coach Ben Johnson, who did a great job. And it's just the competitive character, guys. I keep saying that the way the quarterback, no matter what's going on, The way he competes and comes out there, and he's still trying to put the ball in the end zone, and we know that maybe he's a little more comfortable in that kind of offense, no huddle offense. We've got to throw the ball. These are things that he did all through college, but attack the field, and then you see this
pass that everyone's talking about. We're two feet off the ground, and I heard David talk about how it's the jump man pass, and things are going on in this game that, you know, you don't even see, like, Joe Tooney getting beat clean on some plays, and you're thinking, man, Joe Tooney got beat? Like, how the hell are they going to win this football game?
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Chapters
6 chapters
1
What were the key moments in the Bears' thrilling win over the Packers?
0:00–3:30
2
How did the Bears' defense adjust in the second half?
3:30–7:41
3
What historical context surrounds the Bears' playoff victory?
7:41–12:45
4
How did the quarterback's performance impact the game?
12:45–16:36
5
What were the major turning points that led to the Bears' comeback?
16:36–19:38
6
What role did injuries play in the game strategy?
19:38–44:04
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