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Green Bay Packers vs. Chicago Bears FULL GAME | NFL 2025 Season Wild Card
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This is the full, timestamped transcript of "Green Bay Packers vs. Chicago Bears FULL GAME | NFL 2025 Season Wild Card", an episode of NFL published January 13, 2026 (3 h 25 min, about 22,118 words). It mentions 26 people, works and ideas, including Matt LaFleur, Josh Jacobs, Chicago Bears, DJ Moore, Jeff Hafley.
What this episode is about
The match between the Green Bay Packers and Chicago Bears in the 2025 NFL Wild Card round highlights the competitive dynamics and challenges faced by both teams. The Bears, led by rookie quarterback Caleb Williams, aim to establish an early rhythm against a strong Packers defense, while facing pressure after a turbulent season that included coaching changes. The game's outcome hinges on the Bears' ability to overcome their recent struggles on opening drives.
Key takeaways
- Caleb Williams' growth shows that adaptability is key in the evolving NFL landscape.
- The Bears' early drive highlights how turnovers on downs can ruin momentum—ask any football fan.
- Green Bay's defensive struggles underscore how injuries can derail a season far more than expected.
- Ben Johnson’s creativity is refreshing; a little razzle-dazzle can spark life into a stagnant offense.
- First-quarter dominance by defenses proves old-school grit might still trounce the new-age offenses—who knew?
Who speaks in this episode?
- Caleb Williams (Guest) · 1 h 22 min speaking
- Jordan Love (Guest) · 1 h 12 min speaking
- Ben Johnson (Guest) · 21 min speaking
- Matt LaFleur (Guest) · 21 min speaking
- DJ Moore (Guest) · 10 min speaking
- D'Andre Swift (Guest) · 10 min speaking
- Josh Jacobs (Guest) · 10 min speaking
What is discussed, and when
- – 15:00: DJ Moore, Josh Jacobs, Jeff Hafley, Chicago
- – 30:00: Josh Jacobs, Matt LaFleur, Chicago, DJ Moore
- – 45:00: Matt LaFleur, Chicago, Christian Watson, Matthew Golden
- – 1:00:00: Chicago, Matt LaFleur, Tyrique Stevenson, Dennis Allen
- – 1:15:00: Dennis Allen, Jeff Hafley, Chicago, Josh Jacobs
- – 1:30:00: Chicago, Chicago Bears, DJ Moore, DeAndre Taylor Swift
- – 1:45:00: Chicago, Jeff Hafley, Josh Jacobs, Matt LaFleur
- – 2:00:00: Chicago, Rome Odunze, Chicago Bears, Matt LaFleur
- – 2:15:00: DJ Moore, Chicago, Matt LaFleur, Dennis Allen
- – 2:30:00: Chicago, Chicago Bears, Christian Watson
Notable quotes from "Green Bay Packers vs. Chicago Bears FULL GAME | NFL 2025 Season Wild Card"
THAT'S GOING TO SET UP A THIRD AND TWO AS DJ MOORE MAKES THE GRAB AT QUAY WALKER WITH THE TACKLE. YOU HAVE TO CONVERT HERE. ON HIS FIRST THIRD DOWN OF THE GAME WE MENTIONED THEIR LAST NINE OPENING DRIVES. SO.
about Quay Walker · atSWIFT PICKS UP A COUPLE HERE, IT'LL BE THIRD DOWN AND EIGHT JEFF HAFLEY. THE DEFENSIVE CO-ORDINATOR FROM GREEN BAY, HAS HIS DEFENSE PLAYING DOWNHILL. THEY HAVE REALLY STRUGGLED DOWN THE STRETCH.
about Jeff Hafley · atTHIRD AND 12 PASS IS CAUGHT AND THAT'S GOING TO BE A FIRST DOWN. DJ MOORE WITH THE GRAB.
about DJ Moore · atMOMENT AT THE 15-YARD LINE AND THEY SHOWED. THAT'S GOOD. LET'S GO. RUNNING BACK IS JACOBS AND HE'S A LOT HEALTHIER THAN HE'S BEEN IN THE PAST COUPLE OF WEEKS. THEY HAND THE BALL OFF TO JAYDEN REED COMING FROM THE.
about Josh Jacobs · atTRYING TO JAM IT INTO WATSON JAYLON JOHNSON COVERING SECOND DOWN AND TEN. BEARS DEFENSE WITH DENNIS ALLEN GOING UP AGAINST LAFLEUR. HE KNOWS HE'S GOT HIS HANDS FULL. HE'S GOT A LOT OF RESPECT FOR WHAT GREEN.
about Chicago Bears · atCHRISTIAN WATSON CROSSES THE GOAL LINE FOR A TOUCHDOWN. SO THE BEARS HAD THAT LONG OPENING DRIVE FOR THREE. AND IT'S COUNTERED BY GREEN BAY TO TAKE.
about Christian Watson · atNOT WANTING TO SNAP THE BALL AND THEY ALMOST GOT THE OFFSIDE. THEY ALMOST SECOND QUAR FIELD ON THE LAKEFRONT HERE IN CHICAGO. FOR THE MOMENT, THE OFFENSE IS STAYING ON THE FIELD. THEY ALMOST CAUGHT GREEN.
about Chicago · atTOUCHDOWN EIGHT PLAYS 32 YARDS AFTER CHICAGO MISSED ON THE FOURTH DOWN. ADD THIS TO THE LENGTHY LIST OF MATT LAFLEUR COMING UP WITH A GOOD PLAN RIGHT HERE. HE'S BASICALLY HAS A BUNCH FORMATION. YOU CAN SEE.
about Matt LaFleur · at
Who and what is mentioned in this episode?
People
- Matt LaFleur — Person · Core subject (opposing coach/play-calling focus) · 16 mentions · first at
Praised for Green Bay's offensive plan, red-zone emphasis, and play designs that exploit Chicago's coverage rules and mismatches. - Josh Jacobs — Person · Core subject (player focus on Packers offense) · 10 mentions · first at
Discussed as the 'heart and soul' of the Packers offense, his improved health, and his role in sustaining drives and red-zone execution. - DJ Moore — Person · Key referenced player · 13 mentions · first at
Frequently targeted receiver and involved in critical plays (third-down conversions, a slip/fall contributing to an interception). - Jeff Hafley — Person · Core subject (defensive scheme focus) · 10 mentions · first at
Discussed as Green Bay's defensive coordinator, his downhill style, adjustments without key defenders, and potential head-coaching interest. - Colston Loveland — Person · Key referenced rookie tight end · 4 mentions · first at
Chicago's top pick and a major target; multiple contested catch/incompletion reviews and several chunk gains drive Chicago's second-half offense.THAT'S COLSTON LOVELAND THEIR NUMBER ONE DRAFT CHOICE 10TH OVERALL. AND HE'S HAD A SPECTACULAR ROOKIE YEAR. YEAH HE REALLY HAS. AND AGAIN.
- Dennis Allen — Person · Core subject (Bears defensive approach) · 15 mentions · first at
Frames Chicago's defensive plan (keep plays in front, man vs zone decisions) and is credited for second-half adjustments and pressure packages.JOSH JACOBS. SO GREEN BAY IN A GOOD SPOT AS FAR AS THEIR HEALTH AND DENNIS ALLEN WANTS TO KEEP EVERYTHING IN FRONT OF HIM, NOT GIVE UP THE BIG PLAY BEEN A PROBLEM FOR HIM MOST OF THE YEAR. LOVE TO THE.
- Quay Walker — Person · Key referenced defender · 9 mentions · first at
Highlighted as a blitzer/coverage linebacker in Hafley's scheme and involved in multiple pressure/stop plays versus Chicago. - Christian Watson — Person · Key referenced receiver · 7 mentions · first at
Scores and creates spacing; repeatedly referenced for speed, route influence, and involvement in a fumble-at-goal-line sequence. - Luther Burden — Person · Key referenced rookie receiver · 5 mentions · first at
Repeatedly credited for conversions and YAC; involved in a key fourth-down interception sequence where timing/page may have been off.FOUR. RUSH WILLIAMS UNDER PRESSURE. FIRES INTO TRAFFIC CAUGHT THERE BY LUTHER BURDEN HAVING A GREAT ROOKIE SEASON.
- DeAndre Taylor Swift — Person · Key referenced player · 2 mentions · first at
Discussed as part of Chicago's two-back run game and as a checkdown/receiving threat; several plays highlight his usage and limitations while trailing.WON THE TOSS AND CHOSEN TO RECEIVE GET THE BALL RIGHT OFF THE BAT FROM THE 32 SWIFT ONE OF THEIR TWO HEADED MONSTER AT RUNNING BACK ALONG WITH MONANGAI RASHAN GARY MAKING THE TACKLE AFTER A GAIN OF ONE.
- Devin Duvernay — Person · Key referenced return specialist · 3 mentions · first at
Multiple kick/punt returns set field position; a long punt return creates a prime scoring opportunity for Chicago.ONE. A HALL OF FAMER DID IT AS A RETURNER. THERE HE IS 50 YARD BOOT 46 YARD RETURN BEARS AGAIN GREAT OPPORTUNITY. SHORT FIELD BALL TO 3515 POINT DEFICIT. MONANGAI IS IN THE BACKFIELD. WILLIAMS LOOKING.
- DJ Edwards — Person · Referenced injured defensive leader · 1 mention · first at
His injury is framed as a major blow; described as the 'glue' and 'quarterback' of the Bears defense, prompting personnel changes.AROUND THE LEFT TACKLE WALKER >A SIGNIFICANT BLOW HERE TO THE BEARS. YOU'VE GOT THE AIR CAST ON THE LEFT LEG OF TJ EDWARDS.
- Rome Odunze — Person · Referenced returning receiver · 5 mentions · first at
Targeted in the end zone and noted as returning from a foot injury, affecting Chicago's passing options.INCOMPLETE. A LITTLE TOO TALL FOR ROME ODUNZE. HE'S BACK AFTER MISSING FIVE GAMES WITH A FOOT INJURY. NIXON COVERING ON THE PLAY. HOW GOOD IS CALEB WILLIAMS LOOK IN THIS OPENING.
- Brandon McManus — Person · Referenced player (kicker) · 4 mentions · first at
Handles kickoffs/extra points and attempts a notable long field goal sequence affected by a late timeout and wind.FIELD ON THEIR OPENING POSSESSION TO TAKE A 3-0 LEAD FROM 55. AND IT'S A KICK THAT IS NO GOOD THIS TIME. SO THE TIME-OUT WORKED TO CHICAGO'S ADVANTAGE. FIRST ONE HAD WOULD HAVE BEEN GOOD. THIS ONE IS.
- Devonte Wyatt — Person · Referenced absent defender (injury context) · 3 mentions · first at
Mentioned as an under-discussed loss affecting Green Bay's run defense and interior disruption.RHYTHM HERE AGAINST HIS PACKERS DEFENSE OF COURSE DOESN'T HAVE MICAH DOESN'T HAVE DEVONTE WYATT IT'S BEEN A CHALLENGE FOR HIM DOWN THE STRETCH. HAVE THREE TIGHT ENDS HERE. ONE OF THEM IS SPLIT OUT KMET TO THE.
- D'Marco Jackson — Person · Referenced replacement linebacker · 2 mentions · first at
Enters after T.J. Edwards injury and is credited with a well-timed blitz/stop, with prior experience under Dennis Allen in New Orleans.THE BACKFIELD SO THE CROWD RISES TO THAT OCCASION. JARRETT IS THERE D'MARCO JACKSON TAKING THE PLACE OF TJ EDWARDS WHO GOT HURT EARLY IN HIS OUT THIRD DOWN? YEAH. HE DOES A NICE JOB HERE, TIMING HIS BLITZ UP.
- Matthew Golden — Person · Referenced rookie receiver · 5 mentions · first at
Highlighted for an explosive off-schedule catch and discussed as a first-round pick with a quieter rookie season.GOING TO TAKE OFF. HE'S GOING TO THROW ON THE RUN THAT'S GOING TO BE CAUGHT MATTHEW GOLDEN THE ROOKIE NUMBER ONE PICK OUT OF TEXAS, THE 23RD OVERALL PICK WHO REALLY HASN'T DONE MUCH THIS SEASON. BUT THIS.
- Adrian Hill — Person · Game official (referee) referenced · 4 mentions · first at
Announces key penalties and replay/challenge outcomes, including catch/incompletion reversals and intentional grounding.SHORTLY. GREEN BAY IS CHALLENGING THE RULING ON THE FIELD OF A CATCH. AFTER REVIEW, IT IS DETERMINED THAT IT WAS AN INCOMPLETE PASS. GREEN BAY WILL NOT BE CHARGED WITH A TIME-OUT AND THEY HAVE TWO CHALLENGES.
- Tyrique Stevenson — Person · Referenced defender (key forced fumble) · 4 mentions · first at
Credited with creating the near-turnover/forced fumble at the goal line on Watson's run/catch sequence.THAT BALL GOT CAME OUT. ORIGINALLY. SIGNALED A TOUCHDOWN. YOU GOT TYRIQUE STEVENSON CREATED THAT NEAR TURNOVER BUT INSTEAD AND NOW GETS THAT BALL BOUNCES OUT OF BOUNDS. IT HAD BEEN A.
- Emanuel Wilson — Person · Referenced rotational running back · 4 mentions · first at
Mentioned as a complementary back behind Jacobs and for a notable negative run from the prior week.GAME. WE'VE GOT TO BE ABLE TO RUN DOWN INSIDE THAT 20. EMANUEL WILSON SETS UP AS THE RUNNING BACK PASS GOES TO REED AND HE IS FORCED OUT OF BOUNDS AFTER A SHORT GAIN BY BRISKER THIRD DOWN COULD BE A BIG DAY.
- Charlie Kirk — Person · On-air commentator (referenced by name) · 1 mention · first at
Addressed directly during discussion of Bears QB history/record book; identity not fully specified in transcript.THAT'S A TEAM RECORD ECLIPSING ERIC KRAMER'S MARK. YOU KNOW YOU GO BACK IN THAT BEAR RECORD BOOK KIRK I MEAN SID LUCKMAN WHO PLAYED HERE IN THE YOU KNOW IN THE 30S AND 40S RIGHT. HIS.
Companies & orgs
- Chicago Bears — Company · Core team/organization · 5 mentions · first at
Primary team discussed; their offensive philosophy, defensive injuries, and comeback attempts frame the game narrative. - NFL — Company · Referenced league context · 2 mentions · first at
Used to contextualize rivalry significance and statistical comparisons (e.g., fewest first-quarter points, playoff stakes).FEWEST IN THE NFL IN THE LAST SEVEN YEARS. THIRD DOWN THREE.
- Boston College — Company · Referenced prior coaching affiliation · 1 mention · first at
Cited to establish Jeff Hafley's background before becoming Packers defensive coordinator.WOULD THINK HE'LL GET SOME HEAD COACHING INTERVIEWS AND SEE WHAT HAPPENS. YEAH FORMER BOSTON COLLEGE HEAD COACH DECIDED TO. LEAVE THE COLLEGE GAME WITH ALL THE CRAZINESS, EVEN THOUGH HE WAS A HEAD.
Places & events
- Chicago — Place · Primary setting · 37 mentions · first at
Game location and home context for the Bears; referenced with Soldier Field, lakefront conditions, and crowd impact. - New Orleans — Place · Referenced coaching history location · 1 mention · first at
Mentioned to note D'Marco Jackson previously played for Dennis Allen in New Orleans.ENOUGH TIME TO BE ABLE TO CLIMB UP BECAUSE JACKSON GOT DOWNHILL. HE PLAYED FOR DENNIS ALLEN IN NEW ORLEANS. REALLY UNDERSTANDS THIS DEFENSE AND HAS HAD TO STEP UP WITH EDWARDS DOWN. SO THIRD AND 12.
Full transcript with timestamps
OFF. BACK TO RECEIVE DEVIN DUVERNAY FOR CHICAGO. STANDS AT THE GOAL LINE. BRANDON MCMANUS TO KEKOA. AND OFF WE GO WITH THE WINNER TO MOVE ON. DUVERNAY FIELDS AT THE FOUR YARD LINE. UP PAST THE 20. GOOD RUN BACK TO THE 33. HE GOES. AND THAT'S WHERE WILLIAMS AND COMPANY WILL SET UP SHOP. CALEB WILLIAMS NUMBER ONE PICK IN THE DRAFT LAST YEAR. OFF AND ON SEASON. HEAD COACH GOT FIRED. OFFENSIVE CO-ORDINATOR GOT FIRED. BRING IN JOHNSON. IT'S A LITTLE BIT OF TOUGH LOVE BUT IT'S WORKED OUT PRETTY WELL.
IT REALLY HAS TO THINK ABOUT HOW FAR HE HAS COME. THIS IS A MUCH MORE RIGID SCHEME THAN HE'S EVER BEEN USED TO. GOING BACK TO HIS COLLEGE DAYS WITH LINCOLN RILEY HIS ROOKIE YEAR LAST YEAR, WHAT HE'S HAD TO LEARN UNDER BEN JOHNSON, REALLY JUST CALLING THE PLAYS, GETTING COMFORTABLE WITH THE LANGUAGE. AND HE'S COME NOW AFTER 17 GAMES AND A REALLY GOOD POSITION.
BEARS WON THE TOSS AND CHOSEN TO RECEIVE GET THE BALL RIGHT OFF THE BAT FROM THE 32 SWIFT ONE OF THEIR TWO HEADED MONSTER AT RUNNING BACK ALONG WITH MONANGAI RASHAN GARY MAKING THE TACKLE AFTER A GAIN OF ONE SECOND DOWN AND NINE. INTERESTING. BEN JOHNSON TAKES THE FOOTBALL THEIR LAST NINE GAMES, THEIR OPENING DRIVE SIX PUNTS OVER THOSE NINE GAMES, THREE TURNOVERS ON DOWNS. LET'S SEE IF THEY CAN FIND SOME EARLY RHYTHM HERE AGAINST HIS PACKERS DEFENSE OF COURSE DOESN'T HAVE MICAH DOESN'T HAVE DEVONTE WYATT IT'S BEEN A CHALLENGE FOR HIM DOWN THE STRETCH.
HAVE THREE TIGHT ENDS HERE. ONE OF THEM IS SPLIT OUT KMET TO THE RIGHT. WILLIAMS IN THE POCKET THROWS THAT'S CAUGHT. AND THAT'S GOING TO SET UP A THIRD AND TWO AS DJ MOORE MAKES THE GRAB AT QUAY WALKER WITH THE TACKLE.
YOU HAVE TO CONVERT HERE. ON HIS FIRST THIRD DOWN OF THE GAME WE MENTIONED THEIR LAST NINE OPENING DRIVES. SO ONE WAY TO CREATE A LITTLE RHYTHM IS CAN GET THIS FIRST FIRST DOWN GET CALEB WILLIAMS SETTLE INTO THIS GAME. HITS HIS FIRST PASS, SETS UP HIS THIRD AND THREE.
GREEN BAY'S BEEN A TEAM DEFENSIVELY THEY'VE BEEN GREAT IN THE FIRST QUARTER. THEY'VE GIVEN UP ONLY 26 FIRST QUARTER POINTS ALL SEASON. FEWEST IN THE NFL IN THE LAST SEVEN YEARS. THIRD DOWN THREE. FOUR. RUSH WILLIAMS UNDER PRESSURE. FIRES INTO TRAFFIC CAUGHT THERE BY LUTHER BURDEN HAVING A GREAT ROOKIE SEASON. SECOND ROUND PICK OUT OF MISSOURI FIRST DOWN I'LL. TELL YOU. HERE'S AN EXAMPLE OF CALEB WILLIAMS AND THE WAY HE HAS GROWN C84 THE TIGHT END ON THE LEFT. THAT'S THE ROOKIE LOVELAND HE WANTS TO GO THERE. HE COMES OFF OF HIM. COMES ALL THE WAY BACK TO BE ABLE TO FIND THAT FIRST DOWN TO BURDEN LOOK AT HIS EYES LEFT. HE WANTED TO GO TO THE ROOKIE TIGHT END.
INSTEAD, HE FINDS HIS ROOKIE SLOT RECEIVER AND THERE'S HIS FIRST FIRST DOWN. TWO MINUTES INTO THE GAME FROM THE 44-YARD LINE. TO THE NEAR SIDELINE AND INCOMPLETE COVERAGE. VERY GOOD THERE. THAT'S COLSTON LOVELAND THEIR NUMBER ONE DRAFT CHOICE 10TH OVERALL. AND HE'S HAD A SPECTACULAR ROOKIE YEAR. YEAH HE REALLY HAS. AND AGAIN THAT'S WHO HE'S TRYING TO FIND THERE ON THAT THIRD DOWN. AND ONE THING ABOUT CALEB WILLIAMS YOU KNOW THERE'S A TENDENCY FOR HIM THROUGHOUT HIS CAREER. IMAGINE TRYING TO CHANGE YOUR WAYS HIS ENTIRE LIFE HIGH SCHOOL COLLEGE HER FIRST YEAR THIRD DOWN. HE LOOKS TO HIS PRIMARY. IT'S NOT THERE. HIS TENDENCIES WANT TO LOWER HIS EYES AND RUN THAT THIRD DOWN.
HE SHOWED A GOOD EXAMPLE COMING OFF OF THAT. HE GETS OUT OF THE POCKET A LOT AND OVER THE COURSE OF THE GAME AS D'ANDRE SWIFT PICKS UP A COUPLE HERE, IT'LL BE THIRD DOWN AND EIGHT JEFF HAFLEY.
THE DEFENSIVE CO-ORDINATOR FROM GREEN BAY, HAS HIS DEFENSE PLAYING DOWNHILL. THEY HAVE REALLY STRUGGLED DOWN THE STRETCH DEFENDING THE RUN. BELIEVE IT OR NOT WITHOUT MICAH PARSONS. AND A LOT OF PEOPLE DON'T TALK ABOUT THE LOSS OF DEVONTE WYATT WHO HAD AN ANKLE IN THE NOVEMBER AGAINST THE LIONS. THAT THOSE TWO INJURIES HAVE IMPACTED THEIR SCHEME AND HOW THEY ATTACK AS A DEFENSE. THIRD AND EIGHT TRIPS TO THE LEFT SIDE, HE GOES THAT WAY IS BLOCKING OUT IN FRONT. IT'S A FIRST DOWN AS BURTON MAKES THE GRAB. SO THEY SET UP TRIPS TO THE LEFT, PICK UP THE FIRST DOWN.
WELL TWO THINGS HERE. LUTHER BURDEN IS REALLY DANGEROUS AFTER THE CATCH HE'S REALLY COME ON. BUT WATCH 85 THE TIGHT END WHO'S OUT THERE ON THE CORNER NIXON GREAT JOB THERE. DJ MOORE A WILLING BLOCKER HIMSELF SO A GOOD QUICK THROW. KIND OF AN EXTENSION OF THEIR RUN GAME. GET IT OUTSIDE IN SPACE WHERE BURTON IS JUST SO DANGEROUS WITH THE FOOTBALL IN HIS HANDS.
WENT IN THE DIRECTION OF THAT TIME OF TREVON DIGGS, WHO WAS PICKED UP FROM DALLAS ON WAIVERS TWO WEEKS AGO. FIRST DOWN HERE, NICE HOLE OVER THE LEFT SIDE. D'ANDRE SWIFT, WHO HAD A 1000 YARD SEASON THIS YEAR. SECOND DOWN.
AND THEY MENTIONED THEY USE BOTH THESE BACKS SWIFT AND MONANGAI. YOU'LL SEE THEM BOTH. AND USUALLY SWIFT WORKS OUT ON THE PERIMETER MONANGAI MORE DOWNHILL. BUT I'LL TELL YOU THAT OFFENSIVE LINE COMING OFF THE FOOTBALL ON THIS OPENING DRIVE. THE POWER SIDE IS JACKSON AND RIGHT 73 AND 58 THAT TIME THEY OPENED UP. HE FOUND A CUT BACK TO THE TO THAT RIGHT SIDE BEHIND THOSE TWO LINEMEN.
THREE TIGHT AGAIN PUSHED THE PREMIUM IN THE OFFSEASON. REBUILD THAT OFFENSIVE LINE AND IT'S WORKED LOVELAND TO SPLIT OUT LOVELAND IS GOING TO TAKE IT FROM SWIFT. LOVELAND LOOKING TO THROW FAKES THE TOSS AND THIS IS KMET NOW. COLE KMET COLE KMET. SO THIRD DOWN AND ONE AS KMET TAKES THE TOSS, A LITTLE RAZZLE DAZZLE AND SOMETHING THAT BEN JOHNSON WILL USE A LOT.
YEAH, WHENEVER YOU HAVE BEN JOHNSON, YOU JUST KNOW IT'S COMING. JEFF HAFLEY TOLD US THIS WEEK. YOU GOT TO BE READY FOR THIS. HERE'S A LITTLE RAZZLE DAZZLE KMET WITH THE LEFTY. HE'S THINKING OF THROWING. EVERYTHING'S COVERED DOWNFIELD. GIVE THE PACKERS CREDIT. SO KMET GETS AS MUCH AS HE CAN. MONANGAI NOW IN AT RUNNING BACK, THIRD AND INCHES. GIVE IT TO HIM THROUGH THE MIDDLE. FIRST DOWN TO THE 23. WELL, WE SAW THESE GUYS ON BLACK FRIDAY IN PHILADELPHIA. AND THOSE TWO GUYS HAD A PHENOMENAL DAY. AND THEY RAN OVER THE EAGLES. YEAH, THEY THEY PULLED.
THUNEY THE LEFT GUARD HERE GO HEAVY TO THAT RIGHT SIDE. BUT A HECK OF A JOB BY THE ROOKIE WHO KEEPS SAYING ROOKIE. THEY GOT ROOKIES ALL OVER THIS OFFENSIVE SIDE OF THE FOOTBALL MONANGAI DOES A GREAT JOB OF GETTING THAT TO THE BACKSIDE AWAY FROM THE STRENGTH OF THE FORMATION AND ENDS UP FINDING A GOOD CREASE IN THAT PACKERS DEFENSE.
DJ MOORE COMES BACK IN THE GAME, SHOW HIM ON THE SIDELINE A MOMENT AGO. FAKE TOSS TO HIM AS HE LINED UP IN THE BACKFIELD AND THAT GOES NOWHERE. THAT IS SNIFFED OUT PERFECTLY BY THE GREEN BAY PACKERS. KINGSLEY ENAGBARE RIGHT THERE SAYING NO SIR. LOSS OF FOUR SECOND AND 14.
THEY BROUGHT QUAY WALKER OVERLOADED THE LINE OF SCRIMMAGE AND A REALLY GOOD JOB. THEY PULLED THE RIGHT GUARD AND RIGHT TACKLE. WATCH BOTH THESE PULLERS SO NOT SEE GOOD PENETRATION THERE. JUST A REALLY GOOD FIELD. ENAGBARE HAS GREAT TWITCH. SOMEBODY'S GOT TO STEP UP ON THE EDGE OF THIS DEFENSE WITHOUT PARSONS IN THERE THAT TIME 55 MAKES THE PLAY.
ALREADY THE 11TH PLAY OF THE GAME'S OPENING DRIVE. KEEP IT ON THE GROUND, CUTTING IT BACK, PICKING UP A COUPLE THAT TIME IS D'ANDRE SWIFT SETTING UP THIRD AND LONG LUKAS VAN NESS MAKES THE TACKLE. INTERESTING POINT THAT JEFF HAFLEY MADE TO ASSIST WEEK. AND HE TALKED ABOUT THE BACKSIDE OF THE DEFENSE SQUEEZING. HE SAID THEY ARE GETTING INTENTIONALLY TRY TO RUN THE FOOTBALL AND BEND IT BACK. IT'S A DESIGNED PLAY. WE'VE STUDIED IT AND I'M REALLY EMPHASIZING IN MY DEFENSE, EVEN IF THE BALL GOES AWAY FROM YOU, BE READY FOR THAT CUTBACK FROM BOTH SWIFT AND MONANGAI.
ONE WAY YOU TAKE SIX AND A HALF OFF THE CLOCK AT THREE FOR THREE ON THIRD DOWN.
JOHNSON. THIRD AND 12 PASS IS CAUGHT AND THAT'S GOING TO BE A FIRST DOWN. DJ MOORE WITH THE GRAB. SO THEY'RE FOUR FOR FOUR ON THIRD DOWN. AND GOING TO THE LINE QUICKLY. PICK UP THE TEMPO. YOU GOT MORE AGAIN IN THE BACKFIELD. HE FLARES OUT. WILLIAMS THROWS TO THE RIGHT CORNER OF THE ENDZONE. INCOMPLETE. A LITTLE TOO TALL FOR ROME ODUNZE. HE'S BACK AFTER MISSING FIVE GAMES WITH A FOOT INJURY. NIXON COVERING ON THE PLAY.
HOW GOOD IS CALEB WILLIAMS LOOK IN THIS OPENING DRIVE RIGHT NOW? JUST INCOMPLETE COMMAND. WHAT THEY WANT TO DO. THEY'RE MIXING UP AS YOU'D EXPECT FROM BEN JOHNSON. YOU COME INTO THIS GAME THINKING ABOUT PHYSICALITY DIFFERENT FORMATIONS A LOT OF MOVEMENT EFFECTIVE COMMUNICATION FROM THE PACKERS LINEBACKERS AND DEFENSE. BUT RIGHT NOW 18 IS FEELING IT. SWIFT INSIDE.
THE TEN. THE THIRD DOWN AND FIVE. DRIVE THAT'S TAKEN UP ALMOST HALF THE QUARTER. WELL THIS IS ONE WAY TO KEEP JORDAN LOVE OFF THE FIELD.
YEAH. AND MAYBE BEN JOHNSON WHEN HE TOOK THE FOOTBALL WE TALKED ABOUT NINE STRAIGHT GAMES OPENING DRIVES SIX PUNTS AND THREE TURNOVERS ON DOWNS. HE CHALLENGED HIS OFFENSE AND SHOWED CONFIDENCE IN HIS OFFENSE BY TAKING THE BALL. DESPITE THAT AND BOY THEY RESPONDED HERE IN THIS OPENING DRIVE.
AGAINST A DEFENSE THAT'S BEEN TREMENDOUS IN THE FIRST QUARTER ALL SEASON LONG, ALLOWING ONLY 26 TOTAL POINTS. THIRD AND FIVE.
JOHNSON. WILLIAMS DANCING IN THE POCKET. WILLIAMS THROWS OFF HIS BACK FOOT AND THAT'S INCOMPLETE TO SET UP A FOURTH AND FIVE INTENDED THAT TIME FOR D'ANDRE SWIFT. SO THEY'VE MOVED DOWN HERE IN 15 PLAYS. BUT WE'LL HAVE TO SETTLE FOR THREE.
YOU GOT TO GIVE CREDIT TO GREEN BAY'S DEFENSE. WE'RE TALKING A LOT HERE ABOUT CALEB WILLIAMS AND BEN JOHNSON AND THE BEARS WHAT THEY'RE DOING THEY'RE MOVING THE BALL DOWN THE FIELD. BUT AT THE END OF THE DAY THIS ENTIRE GAME IS GOING TO COME DOWN TO THE RED ZONE. WE SAW GREEN BAY LAST MATCH-UP GO ZERO FOR FIVE IN THE RED ZONE. ENDED UP COSTING THE GAME GIVING THE BEARS A CHANCE TO COME BACK. AND THE BEARS FIRST TIME DOWN. THEY'VE GOT TO SETTLE FOR A FIELD GOAL THEMSELVES.
27 YARD ATTEMPT. YOU SAW THE FLAG. THAT'S A LIGHT BREEZE IN THIS VENUE. AND THE KICK IS GOOD. AN EIGHT MINUTE DRIVE TO OPEN THE GAME TWO COACHES, TWO QUARTERBACKS. OF COURSE, THIS WOULD BE THE NUMBER ONE RIVALRY. IT HAS TO BE 104 YEARS. IT'S THE NUMBER ONE RIVALRY IN THE NATIONAL FOOTBALL LEAGUE. THERE'S SO MUCH AT STAKE.
HOW GREAT IS IT TO SEE THIS RIVALRY IN THE POST-SEASON? HAVEN'T BEEN THAT MANY TIMES. THAT SURPRISED ME. WE SAW THAT BALL.
BOUNCES IN THE LANDING ZONE. KEISEAN NIXON BRINGS THE BALL BACK AND A FIRST FLAG OF THE GAME AT THE 20. CHICAGO THINKS THEY'VE COME AWAY WITH IT. YOU'VE GOT TWO FLAGS ON THE PLAY. ADRIAN HILL WILL MAKE HIS FIRST CALL OF THE NIGHT. IT WILL BE AN IMPORTANT ONE AND THE INDICATION IS GOING TO BE. INITIALLY. POINT TO GREEN BAY'S WAY.
DURING THE RETURN HOLDING AGAINST THE RECEIVING TEAM. NUMBER 81 TEN-YARD PENALTY FIRST DOWN GREEN BAY.
THAT'S JOSH WHYLE, THE ONE OF THE TIGHT ENDS. SO JORDAN LOVE HE'S MISSED THE LAST TWO AND A HALF GAMES. SUSTAINED A CONCUSSION HERE IN WEEK 16. WAS IN CONCUSSION PROTOCOL. DIDN'T PLAY AGAINST BALTIMORE AND THEN WAS A HEALTHY SCRATCH LAST WEEK. AS LAFLEUR SET DOWN A LOT OF HIS STARTERS. SO THE CROWD ALREADY IN A FRENZY, THEIR TEAM UP BY A FIELD GOAL. THEY'RE WORKING ON THE SPOT RIGHT NOW. THEY PUT THE BALL FOR THE MOMENT AT THE 15-YARD LINE AND THEY SHOWED. THAT'S GOOD. LET'S GO. RUNNING BACK IS JACOBS AND HE'S A LOT HEALTHIER THAN HE'S BEEN IN THE PAST COUPLE OF WEEKS. THEY HAND THE BALL OFF TO JAYDEN REED COMING FROM THE OUTSIDE, AND THE WIDE RECEIVER PICKS UP A FIRST DOWN ON GREEN BAY'S FIRST OFFENSIVE PLAY.
BRISKER MAKING THE STOP. SUCH A GOOD CALL HERE. BY MATT LAFLEUR. SO MUCH BUILD UP AND HYPE ABOUT THE PHYSICALITY OF THIS GAME AND GREEN BAY NEEDING TO RUN JOSH JACOBS. HE'S HAD TWO WEEKS TO GET HIS KNEE FEELING BETTER AND THEN THEY GO JET SWEEP, STRETCH HIM OUT HORIZONTAL. GET THE TIGHT END OUT IN FRONT LUKE MUSGRAVE AND PICK UP A BIG FIRST DOWN. PINNED BACK INSIDE THEIR OWN 20. NOW THEY'RE ALL THE WAY OUT TO NEAR THE 30-YARD LINE. ONE BIG GUY THE PACKERS ARE GOING TO MISS TONIGHT. ZACH TOM THEIR RIGHT TACKLE OUT AGAIN.
JORDAN MORGAN TAKES HIS PLACE. LOVE BACKS UP, THROWS INTO TRAFFIC AND IT'S INCOMPLETE. TRYING TO JAM IT INTO WATSON JAYLON JOHNSON COVERING SECOND DOWN AND TEN.
BEARS DEFENSE WITH DENNIS ALLEN GOING UP AGAINST LAFLEUR. HE KNOWS HE'S GOT HIS HANDS FULL. HE'S GOT A LOT OF RESPECT FOR WHAT GREEN BAY CAN DO, BOTH RUNNING AND THEN SETTING UP THOSE PLAY ACTION SHOTS. AND JORDAN LOVE HAS HAD A LOT OF TIME TO HEAL UP, GET READY AND THE SAME COULD BE SAID. LIKE I SAID FOR JOSH JACOBS. SO GREEN BAY IN A GOOD SPOT AS FAR AS THEIR HEALTH AND DENNIS ALLEN WANTS TO KEEP EVERYTHING IN FRONT OF HIM, NOT GIVE UP THE BIG PLAY BEEN A PROBLEM FOR HIM MOST OF THE YEAR.
LOVE TO THE OUTSIDE, LET'S HOLD IN AND A PICK-UP OF CLOSE TO NINE. LUKE MUSGRAVE WHO'S TAKEN OVER AS THE NUMBER ONE TIGHT END IN MIDSEASON. THEY LOST TUCKER KRAFT WHO WAS HAVING SUCH A SPECTACULAR YEAR. BUT OUT HE WENT AND IT'S BEEN MUSGRAVE THE REST OF THE WAY TALKING ABOUT THE.
HEALTH OF THIS OFFENSE. ONE SPOT THAT IS A CONCERN IS THE RIGHT TACKLE. ZACH TOM IS OUT. SO 77 JORDAN MORGAN, WHO HAS PLAYED ALL ACROSS THE BOARD LEFT TACKLE, LEFT GUARD, RIGHT GUARD, RIGHT TACKLE. HE GETS THE START TONIGHT. HE'S GOT MONTEZ SWEAT ACROSS OF HIM, WHICH SHOULD BE BIG, ESPECIALLY ON THIRD DOWNS.
SO HIM LEANING IN FOR THE CALL. THIS IS A NOISE BOX HERE. LOVE DANCING HAS TIME DEEP DOWNFIELD HAULED IN BIG GAIN ROMEO DOUBS THEIR TOP RECEIVER OVER THE TOP OF JAYLON JOHNSON. SO THAT WAS A SECOND DOWN AND TEN. AND THAT PASS IS GOOD FOR 33.
YEAH CONDENSED FORMATION GIVES DOUBS A TWO WAY GO GREAT FAKE THERE AT THE TOP OF THE ROUTE AND ABLE TO PULL AND PULL AWAY FROM JAYLON JOHNSON AND SEPARATE. HERE'S MORGAN WE TALKED ABOUT ON THIRD DOWN HOW HE'S GOING TO HOLD UP. GETS A LITTLE CHIP RIGHT THERE. HOLDS HIS ROUND PRETTY WELL AGAINST SWEAT TO GIVE LOVE ENOUGH TIME TO BE ABLE TO MAKE THAT THROW. BACK JACOBS TRIES TO GET AROUND THE CORNER. INDEED HE DOES AND PICKS UP ABOUT NINE AND A HALF IN A SPOT OF JUST SHY SECOND AND INCHES. YEAH.
REALLY GOOD JOB DOWNFIELD BY DOUBS. HE JUST MADE A GREAT CATCH. NOW HE MAKES A HECK OF A BLOCK DOWNFIELD. AND HOW GOOD IS JOSH JACOBS. I MEAN FIRST TIME HE CARRIES THE BALL MATT LAFLEUR TOLD US HE LOOKS PROBABLY THE BEST. HE'S LOOKED IN 678 WEEKS WITH THE TWO WEEKS OF REST, REHAB AND BOY FIRST CARRY YOU COULD SEE JUST A DIFFERENT ACCELERATION, A DIFFERENT JUICE WHEN HE WAS ABLE TO HOLD THAT FOOT AND GET OUT ON THE PERIMETER OF THAT DEFENSE. NOW YOU GOT TWO RUNNING BACKS IN THERE AS THEY BRING IN CHRIS BROOKS AS WELL. MEANWHILE YOU HAND IT OFF TO JACOBS AGAIN AND THE FORMER RAIDERS TAKES IT TO THE 15-YARD LINE. FIRST DOWN.
HE'S HAD. THAT KNEE THAT'S BEEN SWOLLEN. IT'S BEEN STIFF. HE'S JUST NOT BEEN AT 100%. AND I THINK THESE LAST TWO WEEKS RESTING HIM AND JUST HAVING A CHANCE TO REALLY RECOVER. HE IS SUCH AN IMPORTANT ASPECT OF COURSE, IN THIS OFFENSE, EVEN THOUGH YOU MENTIONED EMANUEL WILSON AND BROOKS, THEY DO A GOOD JOB. BUT JOSH JACOBS REALLY KIND OF THE HEART AND SOUL OF THIS OFFENSE WHEN HE'S HEALTHY.
THREE AND A HALF LEFT IN THE QUARTER. PACKERS FIRST DRIVE. JACOBS FINDS A LITTLE EXTRA ROOM. FINALLY TAKE HIM DOWN AT THE TEN YARD LINE. IT'LL BE SECOND DOWN AND FIVE. BYARD IN ON THE TACKLE. LAFLEUR SENDING IN THE PLAY. REMEMBER BIG.
EMPHASIS THIS WEEK BY MATT LAFLEUR REALLY, REALLY CHALLENGED HIS TEAM LAST GAME ZERO FOR FIVE IN THE RED ZONE. HE SAID WE GET DOWN INSIDE THE 20. WE'VE GOT TO COME AWAY WITH TOUCHDOWNS. AND I SAID, WHAT DOES THAT MEAN? IT MEANS WE'VE GOT TO RUN THE FOOTBALL. IT'S TOUGH WITH THE STYLE OF DEFENSE THEY PLAY. THE WINDOWS ARE SO TIGHT. IT'S TOUGH ON THE PASS GAME. WE'VE GOT TO BE ABLE TO RUN DOWN INSIDE THAT 20. EMANUEL WILSON SETS UP AS THE RUNNING BACK PASS GOES TO REED AND HE IS FORCED OUT OF BOUNDS AFTER A SHORT GAIN BY BRISKER THIRD DOWN COULD BE A BIG DAY FOR THE LAFLEUR FAMILY. YOU GOT MATT HERE. MIKE, THE OFFENSIVE CO-ORDINATOR OF THE RAMS. IF YOU DIDN'T SEE THAT THE RAMS CAME FROM BEHIND IN THE CLOSING MINUTE TO KNOCK OFF CAROLINA IN A WILD ONE. THAT'S A GREAT CALL.
THAT WAS A WILD ONE. RAMS MISSED SOME OPPORTUNITIES EARLY. KIND OF OPENED THE DOOR FOR THE PANTHERS PANTHERS ALMOST MADE HIM PAY FOR IT, BUT THEY GOT OUT OF THERE WITH A WIN.
KIND OF A TYPICAL GAME IN THE NFL THIS SEASON SEES SO MANY OF THOSE. WILSON STAYS IN AS THE RUNNING BACK. THIRD AND TWO. FAKE IT TO HIM. ROLLING, THROWING CAUGHT AND DOES HE GET INTO THE ENDZONE? HE DOES. CHRISTIAN WATSON CROSSES THE GOAL LINE FOR A TOUCHDOWN. SO THE BEARS HAD THAT LONG OPENING DRIVE FOR THREE. AND IT'S COUNTERED BY GREEN BAY TO TAKE THE LEAD.
WE JUST TALKED ABOUT HOW IMPORTANT IT IS TO RUN THE FOOTBALL. SO INSTEAD OF RUNNING IT THEY GET THAT OFFENSIVE LINE WORKING. WATCH HIM WORK FROM THE RIGHT TO THE LEFT. IT LOOKS LIKE AN OUTSIDE STRETCH PLAY AND INSTEAD THEY COME BACK THE OTHER WAY AND WATSON WITH THAT SPEED ABLE TO GET TO THE CORNER, OUTFLANKED MCCLOUD AN EASY THROW THAT TIME FOR JORDAN LOVE FOR THE TOUCHDOWN. GOOD CALL BY MATT LAFLEUR.
THEY GO NINE PLAYS, 85 YARDS. NICE BOUNCE FOUR RUNS, FIVE PASSES. AND YOU'VE GOT A CHICAGO BEAR WHO IS DOWN RIGHT NOW. AND THAT IS. BRISKER THAT'S JAQUAN BRISKER WHO NEEDS THE ATTENTION. FOUR OF THOSE 23 PICKS THIS SEASON, LEAGUE HIGH BELONGED TO HIM. LAFLEUR, WHO CALLS THE PLAYS, GOT BOTH COACHES CALLING THE PLAYS. OF COURSE, BEN JOHNSON CAME OVER FROM DETROIT. HE WAS SO MUCH SOUGHT AFTER FOR A COUPLE OF YEARS. THE RUMOR WAS THAT HE HAD A CHANCE TO GET THE WASHINGTON JOB. HE PASSED ON THAT HE WAITED FOR THE RIGHT OPPORTUNITY. I THINK HE TOOK ONE LOOK AT CALEB WILLIAMS AND HE SAID, MAYBE, MAYBE, MAYBE THIS IS THE PLACE I BELONG.
YEAH. NO DOUBT. AND THEN TO BUILD THIS AROUND HIM, THE OFFENSIVE LINE, THE SKILL PLAYERS, THEY'RE GOING TO HAVE THEIR HANDS FULL TODAY. THIS PACKERS TEAM HAS COME IN. THERE'S BRISKER WALKING OFF. LOOKS LIKE HE COULD BE OK BUT WHAT A WHAT A RESPONSE THERE AFTER THE FIELD GOAL THE LONG DRIVE OF THE BEARS JORDAN LOVE LOOKS HEALTHY LOOKS GOOD. EVERYBODY TALKED ABOUT IS HE GOING TO BE OUT OF RHYTHM? IS HE GOING TO BE OK I MEAN IT'S YOU KIDDING ME? HE'S HE LOOKS MIDSEASON FORM RIGHT THERE ON THAT OPENING DRIVE.
CAN HE SHAKE OFF THE RUST. CAN HE SHAKE OFF THE RUST. PHILIP RIVERS SHOOK OFF FIVE YEARS OF RUST. AND WERE IT NOT FOR A 60 YARD FIELD GOAL AT THE END OF THE GAME WOULD HAVE BEATEN SEATTLE AFTER FIVE YEARS OF RUST.
YEAH, I THINK JORDAN LOVE JUST FINE. RIGHT. SO MUCH FOR THE. RUST BELT MCMANUS WITH A POINT AFTER BANGS THAT THROUGH WITH 206 REMAINING IN THE OPENING QUARTER CHI-TOWN. 73 PACKERS AS THEY KICK OFF BALL FIELDED AT THE FIVE YARD LINE BY DUVERNAY DEVIN DUVERNAY, FORMER RAVEN BRINGS IT BACK TO THE 30-YARD LINE SO CALEB WILLIAMS MAKING HIS 35TH STRAIGHT START. THAT'S A BIG DEAL IN CHICAGO. BECAUSE LOOK AT THIS. LONGEST STREAK SINCE THE 70S. BOB AVELLINI BACK THEN 3942 PASSING YARDS THIS SEASON. THAT'S A TEAM RECORD ECLIPSING ERIC KRAMER'S MARK. YOU KNOW YOU GO BACK IN THAT BEAR RECORD BOOK KIRK I MEAN SID LUCKMAN WHO PLAYED HERE IN THE YOU KNOW IN THE 30S AND 40S RIGHT. HIS NAME IS STILL ALL OVER THE RECORD BOOK. INCREDIBLE TO.
THINK ABOUT IT. I MEAN YEAH. AND YOU GOT TO GO BACK AND THINK ABOUT IT JIM MCMAHON WHEN THEY WON THE SUPER BOWL BUT THEY WERE PLAYING GREAT DEFENSE AND WALTER PAYTON GOT A LOT OF THE ATTENTION. WELL THEY'VE ALWAYS.
BEEN LOOKING FOR THE SAVIOR GAIN OF FOUR FOR THE 34. NOW YOU FOLLOWED OBVIOUSLY DOING SO MUCH COLLEGE FOOTBALL CALEB WILLIAMS BACK WHEN HE WAS AT OKLAHOMA. THEN HE WENT TO USC. SO WHAT HAVE YOU SEEN IN HIS EVOLVEMENT?
WELL, I THINK A GUY THAT IN THE PAST WAS ABLE TO FIGURE IT OUT AFTER THE SNAP, JUST A TREMENDOUS ATHLETE, ALWAYS PROBABLY THE BEST ATHLETE ON THE FIELD, HIGH SCHOOL AND COLLEGE. AND THEN HE GETS UP HERE TO THE NFL AND HIS FIRST YEAR I THINK HE WAS DOING A LOT OF THE SAME STUFF. IF IT WASN'T CLEAR, HE WOULD TAKE OFF AND RELY ON HIS FEET, HE DID BEN JOHNSON AND NOW IT BECOMES A SYSTEM THAT HE HAS TO BE COMMITTED TO AND REALIZE WHAT IT TAKES TO BE AN ELITE NFL QUARTERBACK IS NOT JUST HAVING THE PHYSICAL ABILITY, BUT BEING ABLE TO BREAK IT DOWN AND UNDERSTAND THE WHY. AND I THINK HE'S TAKEN GREAT STRIDES THIS YEAR.
MONANGAI MAYBE A ONE YARD GAIN, BUT I MENTIONED THE TOUGH LOVE THING. I MEAN, EARLY ON IN OTAS AND WHEN JOHNSON COMES IN HERE, THERE WASN'T A LOT OF LOVE LOST AT THAT POINT.
AND WHAT I LIKE ABOUT THAT IS IF YOU WOULD HAVE SAID IS IS CALEB WILLIAMS IN THE NFL GOING TO GET IT AROUND TO BEN JOHNSON AND BE RECEPTIVE TO THAT? I THINK A LOT OF PEOPLE WOULD HAVE WONDERED, KIND OF SHRUGGED THEIR SHOULDERS. HEY, IT'D BE INTERESTING TO SEE. BUT IN FACT IT'S BEEN THE OPPOSITE. HE'S IN WELCOME. HE'S ACTUALLY EMBRACED IT AND THE TWO HAVE REALLY FOUND KIND OF AN EQUAL FOOTING TO BE ABLE TO WORK TOGETHER. THE PROOF IS IN THE RESULTS. HE'S CHASED HERE ON THE RUN, THROWS ALONG THE SIDELINE AND THAT IS HELD IN THERE BY DJ MOORE. FLUSHED HIM OUT THAT TIME. FOURTH DOWN. WHAT WOULD THE PACKERS.
DO WITHOUT MICAH PARSONS AND DAVONTE WYATT. HOW WOULD THEY GET PRESSURE? WELL, THEIR ANSWER WITH JEFF HAFLEY IS THEY GOT TO BRING QUAY WALKER. THEY GOT TO BRING EDGERRIN COOPER. YOU GOT TO FIND OTHER WAYS BECAUSE YOU DON'T HAVE THAT THAT GAME WRECKER UP FRONT. GARY IS NOT HAVING A GREAT YEAR. AND THAT TIME WALKER CHASED HIM OUT. WILL THEY GO FOR IT ON FOURTH AND TWO? THEY DON'T HAVE TO BECAUSE THE QUARTER WILL RUN OUT IF THEY DON'T SNAP IT. SO THEY TRY TO GET HIM TO JUMP. THE CROWD WANTS A FLAG. THERE IS NO FLAG THAT'S THROWN. SO CLEARLY THEY CAME TO THE LINE NOT WANTING TO SNAP THE BALL AND THEY ALMOST GOT THE OFFSIDE. THEY ALMOST SECOND QUAR FIELD ON THE LAKEFRONT HERE IN CHICAGO. FOR THE MOMENT, THE OFFENSE IS STAYING ON THE FIELD. THEY ALMOST CAUGHT GREEN BAY JUMPING AT THE END OF THE FIRST QUARTER. NO FLAG WAS THROWN. SO RIGHT NOW IT IS GOING TO BE FOURTH DOWN AND A LONG TWO FROM JUST INSIDE THE
38-YARD LINE. MONANGAI IS THE RUNNING BACK. DO THEY GO FOR IT? HEY, BRADY. BRADY HEY 50-50.
DURHAM SMYTHE OFF THEY GO. MAN IN MOTION PASS WIDE OPEN MAKING THE GRAB AT THE 45-YARD LINE. DJ MOORE GAIN OF 17.
WELL THEY ROLLED THE DICE. GREEN BAY BRINGS PRESSURE FROM THE FIELD RIGHT HERE. THEY BRING PRESSURE. FOUR IS ABLE TO JUST KIND OF FIND THE SEAM AND WATCH THE GREEN BAY DEFENSE. MISCOMMUNICATION RIGHT HERE WITH TWO DEFENDERS THEY LET MORE CLEAR THROUGH THE MIDDLE. AND A HECK OF A JOB OF SHOWING CONFIDENCE IN CALEB WILLIAMS TO MAKE THAT THROW.
PUTTING A LOT OF GUYS IN THE BACKFIELD TO THIS POINT OF THE GAME. THIS TIME IT IS D'ANDRE SWIFT FOR A SHORT GAIN THREE YARDS.
I THINK YOU GOT TO GO BACK TO THIS FOURTH DOWN I MEAN THE FACT THAT THEY GO FOR THIS YOU KNOW YOU COULD SAY WELL ANALYTICS SAYS YOU GOT TO GO. IT GOT TO GO FOR IT. MAYBE IT'S GOING TO BE A HIGH SCORING GAME. YOU NEED TO MAXIMIZE EVERY POSSESSION. WHAT A CATCH THERE. THAT BALL LOOKS LIKE THE BACK HALF. HE ENDS UP CATCHING IT. GOOD JOB JUST HOLDING ON TO IT BY CALEB WILLIAMS. BUT I GOT TO GO BACK BEN JONSON'S REPUTATION IS TO BE AGGRESSIVE BUT WHAT A JOB OF SHOWING TRUST IN HIS QUARTERBACK.
AND SO MANY FORMATIONS. HERE HE IS AGAIN. BUT HE'S SLIPPING. OTHERWISE MOORE MIGHT HAVE HAD A FIRST DOWN. PICKS UP A COUPLE BEFORE HE GOES DOWN. THIRD DOWN.
BEN JOHNSON AND THE BEARS ARE SEEING THE SAME THING THAT YOU AND I ARE SEEING, WHICH IS GREEN BAY'S DEFENSE IS FLYING TO THE FOOTBALL CLEARLY MOTIVATED DIFFERENT KIND OF INTENSITY IN THE POST-SEASON. SO YOU'RE SEEING A LOT OF DIFFERENT MISDIRECTION WHETHER IT'S A PLAY FAKE, WHETHER IT'S A JET SWEEP, THE RUNNING BACKS GOING ONE WAY, THEY'RE REALLY TRYING TO MAKE GREEN BAY PAY FOR THAT AGGRESSIVE APPROACH THAT THEY'RE PLAYING WITH RIGHT NOW EARLY. BUT GIVE THE PACKERS CREDIT WITH THIS INTENSITY THEY'RE PLAYING WITH HERE EARLY. THIRD DOWN.
AND SIX MONANGAI IS THE BACK. THEY'RE GOING TO GIVE IT TO HIM. AND THE SEVENTH ROUND PICK OUT OF RUTGERS WILL BE EMBRACED IN THE ARMS OF EDGERRIN COOPER FOURTH DOWN. WHAT A PLAY.
BETWEEN QUAY WALKER AND EDGERRIN COOPER IN THEIR SECOND YEAR PLAYING TOGETHER. SUCH GREAT CONTINUITY AND JUST COMFORTABLE IN HOW THEY PLAY TOGETHER. THAT TIME COOPER DID NOT HESITATE, DID NOT ALLOW JONAH JACKSON TO CLIMB UP TO HIM AND GOT INTO THAT BACKFIELD. BUT HERE WE GO AGAIN 40-YARD LINE, FOURTH DOWN AGAIN AND GOING FOR IT.
NEED SIX. BURDEN GOING BACK AND FORTH. THREE RECEIVERS NOW SET TO THE LEFT JEFF. ON FOURTH AND SIX WILLIAMS FIRES. AND THAT'S GOING TO BE PICKED AT THE 12-YARD LINE. CARRINGTON VALENTINE COMES AWAY WITH IT. SO THE BEARS STYMIED ON FOURTH DOWN. AND GREEN BAY WILL GET THE BALL EARLY IN THE SECOND QUARTER. AND THE PACKERS LEAD BY FOUR.
IF IT'S US VERSUS THEM WHO YOU THINK I'LL WE? LET'S TAKE A LOOK AT THIS FOURTH DOWN CALL AGAIN. AND IT'S AN INTERESTING DECISION, TO SAY THE LEAST. BY CALEB WILLIAMS. SEE OUT HERE. LOOK AT THE CORNER. HE'S BEATEN ALREADY. HE THROWS THIS TO A FADE. YOU HAVE THAT. YOU HAVE THE UNDERNEATH THROW THERE INSTEAD HE THROWS IT RIGHT TO CARRINGTON THE CORNER AND CARRINGTON BY INTERCEPTING THAT COST HIS TEAM 27 YARDS BY MAKING THAT INTERCEPTION. WOULD HAVE HAD THE 40 INSTEAD OF THE 13. TOUGH TO BLAME A GUY WITH A CHANCE TO MAKE A PICK GOES TO THE GROUND. GAIN OF FIVE HERE BY JOSH JACOBS SECOND DOWN. YEAH, HE'S.
TALKED TO US ABOUT HIS BODY LANGUAGE SOMETIMES FRUSTRATION I DON'T KNOW IF FRUSTRATED WITH SOMEONE ELSE OR HIMSELF. WHATEVER THE CASE MAY BE. HE PUT THAT BALL UP WHERE GREEN BAY CAN MAKE A PLAY ON IT. BUT THE MOST IMPORTANT THING IS HE HAD TWO OPEN RECEIVERS AND HE'S KIND OF BEEN PLAYING WITHIN HIMSELF AND PLAYING VERY WELL. I THINK THAT'S A BIG PART OF THE REASON THAT BEN JOHNSON WENT TOWARD TWICE ON FOURTH DOWN. HE ALSO SENSES THAT JORDAN LOVE IS GOING TO PUT SOME POINTS UP TONIGHT AGAINST HIS OWN DEFENSE.
SECOND AND THREE AND THAT'S A FIRST DOWN AND A LOT MORE GETTING IT OUT TO THE 34-YARD LINE GOES JOSH JACOBS.
THIS BIG DECISION FOR DENNIS ALLEN IS DO YOU PLAY MAN-TO-MAN AND LOAD UP ON THE BOX TO SLOW DOWN THIS RUN GAME? OR YOU SIT BACK AND PLAY ZONE. HE'S OPENING DRIVE PLAYED SOME MAN-TO-MAN LOOK AT IT COMING OFF THE BALL THERE. REALLY GOOD JOB BY SEAN RYAN WHO'S MOVED FROM RIGHT GUARD INTO CENTER. RIGHT NOW CONTROLLING THE LINE OF SCRIMMAGE. REMEMBER YOU SAID WHAT DOES IT TAKE TO ADVANCE THE SEATTLE AND EMBRACE THE PHYSICALITY OF THIS GAME. THE TRENCHES ON BOTH SIDES FOR GREEN BAY LOVE STEPS AWAY. FROM PRESSURE, BUT NOT LONG ENOUGH. NOW THE BALL COMES OUT.
RULING ON THE FIELD. IS AN INCOMPLETE FORWARD PASS. SECOND DOWN. AT AUSTIN BOOKER PUTTING THE PRESSURE ON LOVE THAT TIME AND HE JUST SLUNG IT AWAY. MEANWHILE, YOU GOT AN INJURED BEAR DOWN ON THE FIELD HERE. BOOKER.
BOOKER IS REALLY THE END THAT HAS COME ON HERE IN THIS SECOND HALF. MONTEZ SWEAT GETS A LOT OF ATTENTION, BUT BOOKER WITH THE LENGTH THAT HE HAS ABLE TO GET AROUND THE LEFT TACKLE WALKER >A SIGNIFICANT BLOW HERE TO THE BEARS. YOU'VE GOT THE AIR CAST ON THE LEFT LEG OF TJ EDWARDS. WHO'S BEEN OFT INJURED THIS YEAR. SUCH A BIG PART OF THAT DEFENSE. AND NOW THEY'LL TAKE HIM OFF THE FIELD. OF COURSE. IT'S SO TOUGH FOR A GUY LIKE THAT. HAD A CHANCE TO VISIT WITH HIM IN THE ZOOM THE OTHER DAY AND YOU KNOW, LOOKING FORWARD TO PLAYING GETTING HEALTHY AGAIN AND GETS THE RIDE OFF TONIGHT.
AND THE GREATEST COMPLIMENT DENNIS ALLEN TOLD US WAS HE'S THE GLUE. HE BRINGS A CALMNESS TO OUR DEFENSE. HE'S OUR QUARTERBACK. THEY'VE HAD TO PLAY A LOT OF GAMES THIS YEAR WITHOUT HIM, AND THEY'RE GOING TO HAVE TO CONTINUE ON. SO WISH HIM ALL THE BEST.
HE SALUTES THE CROWD. AS HE GOES. OFF THROUGH THE TUNNEL. AND THAT MEANS D'MARCO JACKSON IS GOING TO COME INTO THE GAME TO TAKE HIS PLACE. EVEN THOUGH JACKSON IS A BACK-UP. WE'RE GOING TO GO BACK AND LOOK AT THE INJURY FIRST HERE.
YEAH. YOU SEE THE LEFT THE LEFT FOOT GETS CAUGHT UP WITH CHRISTIAN WATSON RIGHT THERE. YOU SEE THAT TOWARD RIGHT AS HE WATSON CAME THROUGH IT.
SO NOW D'MARCO JACKSON FOURTH YEAR MAN OUT OF APPALACHIAN STATE, IT'S SECOND DOWN AND TEN FOR GREEN BAY FROM THEIR OWN 33. LOVE HE'S NOT GOING TO TAKE OFF. HE'S GOING TO THROW ON THE RUN THAT'S GOING TO BE CAUGHT MATTHEW GOLDEN THE ROOKIE NUMBER ONE PICK OUT OF TEXAS, THE 23RD OVERALL PICK WHO REALLY HASN'T DONE MUCH THIS SEASON. BUT THIS IS A GUY WHO'S EXPLOSIVE. ABSOLUTELY.
AND HE DOES A GOOD JOB OF PLAYING OFF SCHEDULE HERE. JORDAN LOVE IS KNOWN FOR HIS ABILITY TO STEP UP AND THEN OUT. GOOD ATHLETIC ABILITY. YOU COULD SEE THE GOOD JOB OF SEPARATING THERE, HELPING HIS QUARTERBACK OUT. BY MATTHEW GOLDEN HASN'T HAD QUITE THE ROOKIE YEAR THAT I THINK A LOT OF US EXPECTED HIM TO HAVE. BUT YOU CAN SEE RIGHT THERE THE EYES OF JAYLON JOHNSON. HE'S DEFENDING HIM. HE'S GOING TO LOOK BACK AT THE QUARTERBACK. AND WHEN HE DID THAT, IT'S EXACTLY WHEN GOLDEN PULLED AWAY FROM HIM. THEY'RE PLAYING A LOT OF MAN-TO-MAN. THEY DID IT THE FIRST TIME IN WEEK 14 AND JORDAN LOVE PICKED THEM APART.
VERY SURPRISED. THEY'RE PLAYING AS MUCH MAN AS THEY ARE HERE SO FAR EARLY IN THIS GAME. RUNNING BACK IS EMANUEL WILSON JETS GOLDEN SETTING UP ON THE LEFT SIDE. WILSON. WILSON WILSON. LAST WEEK I THINK HE HAD THE LONGEST LOSS ON A RUNNING PLAY IN YEARS. HE WENT ONE WAY THAN THE OTHER AND LOST 18 YARDS ON A RUNNING PLAY. TOUGH TO DO. YEAH, VERY TOUGH TO DO.
IT DOESN'T DO A LOT FOR YOUR YARDS PER CARRY AVERAGE EITHER. YOU KNOW WHAT? SINCE JACOBS HAS BEEN DEALING WITH THAT KNEE HE HAS COME IN AND THEY'VE BEEN VERY IMPRESSED WITH HIM GIVING HIM SOME SOLID REPS. BUT THE ONE YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT WAS NOT THAT.
SECOND AND SEVEN. LOVE STEPPING UP AND LOVE WILL BE TAKEN DOWN. TAKEN DOWN THERE BY AUSTIN BOOKER MAKING THE POP THERE NUMBER 94. LIKE WE SAID.
EARLIER AUSTIN BOOKER MAN, HE JUST CONTINUES TO GET BETTER. SECOND YEAR OUT OF KANSAS HAD A KNEE EARLY IN THE YEAR AND A BUFFALO PRE-SEASON GAME. WATCH HIM COLLAPSE DOWN EYES ON THE QUARTERBACK. SO INSTEAD OF PREDETERMINING AND WORKING UPFIELD, HE SAW LOVE AGAIN STEP UP AT THIS TIME. HAD AN ANSWER FOR IT. YEAH.
LOVE SEEING ENOUGH OF BOOKER BECAUSE BOOKER WAS THE GUY WHO PUT HIM OUT WITH A CONCUSSION. YEAH. GOOD CALL. THREE WEEKS AGO. THIRD AND EIGHT. CHRIS BROOKS IS THE BACK. FLAG AND DELAY. THERE IS NO PLAY. TIME-OUT. GREEN BAY, THEIR FIRST. THIS WILL BE A THIRTY-SECOND TIME OUT.
SO WITH 855 TO GO TO THE HALF AGAIN, AS YOU ALL KNOW, IN THE PLAY-OFFS, THE WINNER GOES ON. IF GREEN BAY WINS, THEY KNOW THEY'RE GOING TO SEATTLE IN THE SEVEN SEED. SEATTLE IS NUMBER ONE. AND RIGHT NOW LET'S GO TO CALEB. WELL GUYS BEARS LINEBACKER TJ EDWARDS IS IN THE X-RAY ROOM NOW. WE JUST SAW BEARS OWENS GEORGE MCCASKEY RUNNING DOWN THE HALLWAY TO BE THERE WITH HIM AND SUPPORT HIM. HE BROUGHT EDWARDS EDWARDS HIS HELMET. YOU GUYS TALKED ABOUT HE'S SUCH THE GLUE FOR THIS DEFENSE. AND DON'T FORGET THIS IS A KID WHO GREW UP 45 MILES AWAY FROM THIS STADIUM. A BEARS FAN ALL OF HIS LIFE. THIS NIGHT WAS SUPPOSED TO BE SOMETHING SPECIAL FOR HIM.
YEAH. WENT TO SCHOOL AT WISCONSIN. LOVE NOW COMES UP IN THE PISTOL. CHRIS BROOKS IS THE BACK. THIRD DOWN AND EIGHT. PASS TO THE OUTSIDE HAULED IN. AND THAT'S GOING TO BE ENOUGH FOR A FIRST DOWN. ROMEO DOUBS MAKING THAT GRAB.
NOW AGAIN MAN-TO-MAN COVERAGE JORDAN LOVE HAS TIME. A LITTLE BIT OF A TWIST GAME UP FRONT, BUT THE LINE DOES JUST ENOUGH TO GIVE HIM TIME TO BE ABLE TO MAKE THIS THROW. AND EVEN THOUGH WRIGHT HAS HAD A GOOD YEAR, YOU KNOW A LOT OF BIG SURPRISES. PEOPLE ARE SURPRISED AT HOW WELL HE HAS PLAYED THESE GREEN BAY PACKERS WHEN LOVE HAS TIME, IF THEY'RE GOING TO PLAY MAN-TO-MAN, IT IS A BIG ADVANTAGE WITH LOVE AND THE PACKERS AND HE'S ALREADY IN THESE FIRST COUPLE DRIVES PROVING THAT.
FROM THE 19. YARD MAYBE TWO FOR JACOBS TACKLED THERE BY DOMINIQUE ROBINSON. GREEN BAY THE PROBLEMS IN THE PAST COUPLE OF GAMES AGAINST CHICAGO THE RED ZONE GETTING DOWN THERE AND SETTLING FOR THREE INSTEAD OF SEVEN.
YEAH, ESPECIALLY THAT LAST TIME. AGAIN, A LITTLE BIT OF AN OUTLIER. MALIK WILLIS WHO I THOUGHT DID A GREAT JOB IN THAT GAME IN WEEK 16, BUT IT'S DIFFERENT APPROACH, DIFFERENT ATTACK THAT THEY WERE ZERO FOR FIVE IN THAT WEEK 16 GAME DOWN IN THE RED AREA.
SECOND AND NINE. BEARS ALMOST JUMPED JETS JACOBS HE GETS TAKEN DOWN THERE THIRD AND LONG AND DOMINIQUE ROBINSON.
90 IS IN THERE FOR SWEAT DOING A HECK OF A JOB. HE COLLAPSED BOTH TIMES ON THOSE RUN PLAYS. A GOOD JOB OF JUST FOLLOWING HIS INSTINCTS. GET HIM TO A THIRD DOWN AGAIN. REMEMBER THEY'VE BEEN PLAYING MAN-TO-MAN ON THESE THIRD DOWNS AND HAS NOT WORKED OUT FOR THEM. PACKERS THREE FOR THREE ON THIRD DOWNS. CROWD ROARING.
GO FIVE WIDE HERE ON THIRD DOWN AND NINE. IN THE POCKET. OPEN CAUGHT REED TOUCHDOWN. JAYDEN REED FROM 18 YARDS OUT. AND TWO TOUCHDOWN PASSES IN THE FIRST HALF FOR LOVE.
WOW. THIS IS SUCH A WELL-DESIGNED PLAY BY MATT LAFLEUR WATCH CHRISTIAN WATSON TAKE TWO DEFENDERS WITH HIM. TAKES 26 AND 31 DOWN FIELD. IT CREATES AN OPENING FOR 11 AND A MISMATCH AGAINST THE LINEBACKER EDMUNDS. SO WATSON WON'T GET RECOGNIZED EXCEPT FOR YOU AND I TALKING ABOUT IT HERE. BUT BY HIM TAKING THOSE TWO DEFENDERS ALL THAT SPACE FOR REED TO WORK AGAINST THE LINEBACKER AGAIN, LAFLEUR ONE STEP AHEAD OF DENNIS ALLEN.
EXTRA POINT IS GOOD. REED HAD A FOOT SURGERY. ONLY PLAYED SEVEN GAMES THIS YEAR. HAD ONE TOUCHDOWN DURIN T? 14 THREE GREEN MATT LAFLEUR. RIGHT NOW HAS A PLAN THAT I DON'T KNOW IF THE BEARS ARE GOING TO STOP HIM. I MEAN, THEY ARE ON FIRE WITH THEIR EXECUTION.
HERE'S DUVERNAY CUTTING IT BACK FROMKS AND TWO TAKEAWAYS. NOT HOW YOU WANT TO BE RIDING INTO THE PLAY-OFFS, BUT WITH JUST THREE BEARS POINTS ON THE BOARD. NOT BAD RIGHT?
SO FAR, SO GOOD FOR THEM TONIGHT, WILLIAMS LOOKING FOR THE SIDELINE. HE'LL STEP OUT OF BOUNDS I MEAN YOU LOOK AT WHAT THAT PACKER DEFENSE DID GET JEFF HAFLEY HE'S ON A NUMBER OF TEAMS RADAR WOULD THINK HE'LL GET SOME HEAD COACHING INTERVIEWS AND SEE WHAT HAPPENS. YEAH FORMER BOSTON COLLEGE HEAD COACH DECIDED TO.
LEAVE THE COLLEGE GAME WITH ALL THE CRAZINESS, EVEN THOUGH HE WAS A HEAD COACH. DIDN'T GET FIRED. HE JUST LEFT ON HIS OWN. WENT BACK TO THE NFL, BECAME THE DEFENSIVE CO-ORDINATOR LAST YEAR FOR THE GREEN BAY PACKERS, DOING A HECK OF A JOB DESPITE ALL THE LOSSES THAT THEY HAVE. HE'S HAVING TO DO IT DIFFERENT WAYS, BUT IT'S WORKING OUT GREAT.
WHO WOULD KNOW BETTER THAN YOU? ALL THE CRAZINESS. OH MAN. NO KIDDING. SECOND, THE KNEE PICKING IT UP TO THE 33-YARD LINE GOES D'ANDRE SWIFT UNDER SIX MINUTES TO PLAY IN THE FIRST HALF.
YOU KNOW. AND AGAIN IF YOU'RE WATCHING YOU'RE THINKING BEN JOHNSON MAN WHY IS HE GOING FOR ALL THESE THESE FOURTH DOWNS? HE'S GOING FOR IT BECAUSE HE'S WATCHING WHAT JORDAN LOVE IN THE PACKERS OFFENSE IS DOING. AND HE KNOWS THAT EVERY POSSESSION MATTERS FOR THIS CHICAGO OFFENSE. THEY NEED POINTS. YOU DO NOT WANT TO GIVE JORDAN LOVE AND THE PACKERS SUCH A HEAD START WITH THE WAY THEY'RE EXECUTING AGAINST THIS DEFENSE OF THE BEARS.
THIRD DOWN FOR ODUNZE IN MOTION WILLIAMS LOOKED THAT WAY THEN THROWS OVER THE MIDDLE WIDE OPEN MAKING THE GRAB. BUT THE BALL IS OUT FROM THE 42-YARD LINE. WHO HAS IT AT THE END OF THE PLAY? COLE KMET IS GOING TO BE RETAINED.
YEAH, HE GOT IT BACK. YEP, HE GOT IT BACK ON THE FIELD AS A CATCH. FUMBLE RECOVERED.
BY CHICAGO. FIRST DOWN. MCKINNEY WAS THERE TO POP IT. GOT IT BACK. HEY TERRY. I JUST WANT TO BRING YOU IN JUST TO MAKE SURE. IS THAT A FOOTBALL MOVE TO MAKE SURE. IS THAT AN INCOMPLETION OR DO YOU THINK THAT'S A COMPLETION AND A FUMBLE? I DO THINK IT'S A COMPLETION. HE DOESN'T BOBBLE IT. HE GETS CONTROL OF IT INITIALLY WITH TWO FEET DOWN AND THEN HE TAKES AN ADDITIONAL STEP.
WELL YOU SEE THAT LAFLEUR IS GOING TO THROW THE CHALLENGE FLAG ADRIAN HILL WILL MAKE THE ANNOUNCEMENT VERY SHORTLY.
GREEN BAY IS CHALLENGING THE RULING ON THE FIELD OF A CATCH. AFTER REVIEW, IT IS DETERMINED THAT IT WAS AN INCOMPLETE PASS. GREEN BAY WILL NOT BE CHARGED WITH A TIME-OUT AND THEY HAVE TWO CHALLENGES REMAINING.
THE EXPEDITED REVIEW. THEY CAME IN, IN A HURRY. THEY'RE GOING TO FACE ANOTHER FOURTH DOWN AND THIS TIME THEY'RE GOING TO PUNT. ODUNZE OBVIOUSLY DID GET ON TOP OF IT, BUT IT'S ALL FOR NAUGHT WITH HIM WAVING THIS OFF FOR AN INCOMPLETION. SO IT'S FOURTH DOWN. WOW. THEY STARTED TO COME OUT AND NOW THE OFFENSE IS STAYING OUT. FOURTH AND FOUR.
REMEMBER DOWN BY 11. BOY I'M TELLING YOU. IT WILL BE FOURTH DOWN FROM THE 32-YARD LINE.
WELL ANALYTICS WOULD SAY TO PUNT HERE AND YOU KNOW AND BEN JOHNSON'S TRUMPING ANALYTICS RIGHT NOW WITH A FOURTH AND FOUR FROM HIS OWN 32. AND HE'S GOING TO GO FOR THIS WAIT ON ME.
IF THEY SNAP IT. IT'S A FOURTH AND FOUR JUST SHOWS YOU THEY'RE GETTING THE RESPECT.
THAT HE HAS FOR WHAT LOVE IN THIS PACKERS DEFENSE IS CAPABLE OF TONIGHT. HERE WE GO. HERE WE GO. ARE THE OFFENSE RATHER HUGE PLAY IF THEY INDEED GO FOR IT.
THEY DO INDEED IT'S JUGGLED. IT'S AND THEN IT'S TIPPED AND IT'S INCOMPLETE. SO A MAJOR GAMBLE. AND HE LOST IT BOY.
THE TIMING AND THE RHYTHM WERE OFF FROM THE WORD GO. THE BALL WAS HIGH TO HIS RIGHT AGAIN. HE'S LUCKY TO BE ABLE TO JUST TRY TO SECURE THE FOOTBALL. AND NOW IT'S OFF. I MEAN YOU GOT A BLITZ WITH QUAY WALKER NOW HE FEELS RUSHED, HE'S HURRIED AND THEN THE BALL ENDS UP GETTING TIPPED UP THERE AT THE LINE OF SCRIMMAGE BY EDGERRIN COOPER ANYWAY. BUT THAT SNAP HIGH RIGHT AFFECTED THE TIMING WITH CALEB WILLIAMS RUSHED HIM, RUSHED HIS EYES. BY THE TIME HE GETS HIS BALL AND NOW HE FEELS BECAUSE OF THAT BLITZ HE'S GOT TO GET IT OUT. MAY HAVE HAD A CHANCE. IF COOPER DOESN'T MAKE THAT PLAY AT THE LINE OF SCRIMMAGE.
SO GREEN BAY UP BY 11 ALREADY IN FIELD GOAL RANGE AND LOOKING AHEAD THEY'RE GOING TO GET THE BALL TO START THE SECOND HALF. JACOBS FOLLOWS HIS BLOCKING PICKS UP SEVEN. JARRETT MAKES THE TACKLE. SECOND DOWN AND THREE. AND SLOW TO GET UP IS ANDREW BILLINGS. SO HE'S DOWN ON THE GROUND TRYING TO WORK HIS WAY BACK UP AND. TRA BOY, WHAT A START FOR MATT LAFLEUR AND JORDAN LOVE IN HIS FIRST HALF. GOOD JOB HERE WITH THE ROOKIE RECEIVER. MATTHEW GOLDEN OFF SCHEDULE, ABLE TO MAKE A PLAY. GET AWAY FROM THE CORNER JAYLON JOHNSON HERE A LITTLE SLIDE ROUTE OUT. LEVERAGE THE CORNER MCCLOUD ABLE TO COME UP WITH THAT ONE C WATSON TAKES TWO DEFENDERS. ALL THAT SPACE WILL STICK AND GO BY JAYDEN REED JUST EVERYTHING RIGHT NOW WORKING FOR MATT LAFLEUR ON FIRE AND HE'S GOT A QUARTERBACK. WHETHER YOU BLITZ HIM, YOU PLAY MAN, YOU PLAY ZONE WITH THE PROTECTION HE HAS, THE MISMATCH WITH THE RECEIVERS AGAINST THE
SECONDARY. IT'S PITCH AND CATCH SO FAR. SECOND AND THREE JACOBS VERY CLOSE TO THE LINE TO GAIN ABOUT A HALF YARD SHY THIRD DOWN.
I MEAN ALL THIS IS GOING WRONG FOR CHICAGO. THEY WIN THE TOSS. THEY TAKE THE BALL. YOU'RE DOWN 14 TO 3. THEY'VE GONE FOR IT TWICE INSIDE THEIR OWN TERRITORY ON FOURTH DOWN AND TJ EDWARDS THE CLUE. THE EMOTIONAL LEADER OF THE DEFENSE HAS BEEN TAKEN TO THE LOCKER ROOM. THIS IS WHERE YOU FIND OTHERS. SOMEBODY IS GOING TO HAVE TO STEP UP HERE. IF THE BEARS ARE GOING TO GET BACK INTO THIS GAME.
ANDREW BILLINGS WENT LIMPING OFF JUST BEFORE HE GOT BACK FROM THE BREAK. THIRD DOWN ONE AND THEY'RE ABLE TO STOP HIM FOR THE MOMENT. BUT LET'S SEE WHERE THEY MARK THE FORWARD PROGRESS NOW. REEVES-MAYBIN MAKING THE TACKLE THERE. IT'S GOING TO BE FOURTH DOWN. WELL I THINK MATT.
LAFLEUR KNOWS HE'S THE OPPORTUNITY. THE BEARS PUT IT RIGHT IN FRONT OF HIM. THEY GIVE HIM THIS CHANCE AND THIS POSSESSION AND HE WANTS TO TRY TO MAXIMIZE IT. TAKE A BIG HIT IN THE DENNIS ALLEN AND THIS DEFENSE. TRY TO GO UP 21 TO 3 BY GOING FOR IT HERE. FOURTH DOWN ONE.
OFF THE FAKE WIDE OPEN FIRST DOWN AND A TON MORE DOWN THE SIDELINE DIVING IN. DOES HE GET IN FOR THE SCORE. HE DOES WATSON CHRISTIAN WATSON ON A FOURTH AND ONE FROM 23 YARDS OUT. WHAT A DAGGER. AND THE BALL CAME OUT. YOU CAN SEE RECOVERED THERE BY LOOKED LIKE TO ME BY DOUBS. THAT'S WHAT THE OFFICIAL MATT LAFLEUR IS LOOKING OUT TO SEE. THAT BALL DEFINITELY CAME OUT. ORIGINALLY SIGNALED AS HE TOUCHDOWN.
ON THE FIELD IS THAT THE PLAYER FUMBLED THE BALL BEFORE CROSSING THE GOAL LINE BECAUSE IT IS FOURTH DOWN AND THE BALL WAS RECOVERED BY HIS TEAM-MATE, THE BALL WILL COME BACK TO THE SPOT OF THE FUMBLE. IT WILL BE FIRST DOWN GREEN BAY.
AND HE FUMBLED IT AT ABOUT THE HALF YARD LINE BY GOING AIRBORNE. TAKE A LOOK RIGHT HERE. YEAH, THE HELMET CLIPS THE BALL. HE'S CLEARLY LOSES IT. BUT DOUBS ENDS UP COMING IN RIGHT THERE. BUT IT DOESN'T MATTER. IT'S GOING TO COME BACK TO THE SPOT OF WHERE THAT BALL GOT CAME OUT. ORIGINALLY. SIGNALED A TOUCHDOWN. YOU GOT TYRIQUE STEVENSON CREATED THAT NEAR TURNOVER BUT INSTEAD AND NOW GETS THAT BALL BOUNCES OUT OF BOUNDS. IT HAD BEEN A TOUCHBACK. AND BEARS BALL RIGHT BIG BREAK FOR THE PACKERS. CAN THEY CASH IN. AND THAT PASS IS THROWN INTO A LOT OF TRAFFIC INTENDED FOR DOUBS KYLER GORDON MAKING THE PLAY THERE. SECOND DOWN AND GOAL.
BOY REALLY GOOD JOB OF JUST HAVING INSTINCTS HERE. YOU'LL SEE HIM COME TO YOUR LEFT. HE JUMPS THIS ROUTE SORRELL A CERTAIN LOOK KNEW TO TRY TO GET IN FRONT OF IT AND ALMOST DID. TRYING TO GET THE BALL OUT KYLER GORDON, WHO HAS NOT BEEN PLAYING A LOT THIS YEAR, ONLY THREE GAMES BECAUSE OF INJURIES ALMOST IN THE RIGHT SPOT TO COME UP WITH THAT BIG INTERCEPTION.
JACOBS GOES TO THE OTHER SIDE. A LITTLE PROBLEM ON THE HAND-OFF THERE. PUTTING HIS BELLY AND THEN WHO THERE FOR LONGER THAN LOVE HAD INTENDED. THIRD AND GOAL. ANY TIME YOU SEE A MESH LIKE THAT, THAT'S A REED LOVE IS READING THE IN MAN ON THE LINE OF SCRIMMAGE, TRYING TO MAKE A DECISION AS HE COMMITTING DOWN, DO I NEED TO PULL IT? VERY FORTUNATE. THE LAST TWO PLAYS ALMOST A NEAR INTERCEPTION AND HERE BEING INDECISIVE ON THAT ZONE READ VERY FORTUNATE THAT JACOBS WAS ABLE TO SECURE THAT FOOTBALL. INDEED NEAR.
PICK NEAR FUMBLE, THIRD DOWN AND GOAL CLOCK RUNNING DOWN TWO AND A HALF ONE SECOND CALL A TIME-OUT. YEP. MATT LAFLEUR WILL TAKE THE TIME AGAIN. GREEN BAY WILL GET THE BALL TO START THE SECOND HALF. THEIR SECOND.
THIS IS THE THIRTY-SECOND TIME-OUT. THAT THEIR DEFENSE. WE HAVEN'T TALKED ABOUT IT TOO MUCH IN TERMS OF I MEAN IT'S REALLY AN ANOMALY. THEY'VE BEEN GIVING UP A TON OF YARDAGE DURING THE SEASON. THEY'RE DOWN NEAR THE BOTTOM OF THE LEAGUE IN ALMOST EVERY CATEGORY EXCEPT TAKEAWAYS. THEY NEED ONE HERE.
YEAH. AND WE SAID WHAT DO THEY HAVE TO DO IF THEY'RE GOING TO BE ABLE TO WIN THIS GAME? IT WAS THE TURNOVER MARGIN AND IT'S BEEN EXCEPTIONAL ALL YEAR LONG, BOTH TAKING CARE OF THE BALL AND CREATING THE TURNOVERS. BUT JUST THE FIRST COUPLE SERIES DIDN'T JUST FEEL LIKE GREEN BAY'S THE BETTER FOOTBALL TEAM. THEY JUST LOOKED LIKE THEY WERE EXECUTING. THEY LOOKED LIKE THEY WERE PLAYING NOT DOES IT MEAN THIS GAME CAN'T FLIP? BUT IT JUST IT FELT LIKE GREEN BAY CAME IN ALMOST WITH A CHIP ON THEIR SHOULDER BEING DOUBTED COMING ON THE ROAD IN THIS FIRST ROUND OF THE POST-SEASON.
AND THE OFFENSE VERY MUCH IN RHYTHM. THIRD DOWN GOAL JACOBS GOING TO STOP HIM JUST SHY OF THE GOAL LINE. FOURTH DOWN. BOY, IF THE BEARS EVER NEEDED A GOAL LINE STAND IT'S RIGHT HERE. THAT'S GOING TO TAKE US TO THE TWO MINUTE THE HALF FOURTH DOWN AND GOAL. HUGE PLAY WITH TWO MINUTES TO PLAY IN THE HALF. NUMBER BEN JOHNSON GOING FOR IT ON FOURTH DOWN.
SET UP THIS SHORT FIELD. CAN THE DEFENSE BAIL OUT THAT DECISION? THREE RECEIVERS TO THE LEFT LOVE LOOKED THAT WAY. JACOBS THE BACK LOVE THROWING OPEN CAUGHT DOUBS FOR THE SCORE. SO THEY RAN IT A COUPLE OF TIMES. COULDN'T GET IT IN AND THEN FINALLY THROW IT AND THE TOUCHDOWN EIGHT PLAYS 32 YARDS AFTER CHICAGO MISSED ON THE FOURTH DOWN.
ADD THIS TO THE LENGTHY LIST OF MATT LAFLEUR COMING UP WITH A GOOD PLAN RIGHT HERE. HE'S BASICALLY HAS A BUNCH FORMATION. YOU CAN SEE TWO DEFENDERS IN THE BACK END OF CHICAGO SECONDARY CONFUSED? SEE HIM POINTING 26. HE KIND OF GETS CAUGHT UP IN THE WRONG GUY. IT LEAVES DOUBS ALL ALONE OUT THERE IN THE FLAT AND IT'S BECAUSE OF THAT MOTION. THAT QUICK MOTION RIGHT BEFORE THE SNAP CREATED THAT BUNCH WITH THREE RECEIVERS AND A MISCOMMUNICATION BY THE BEARS ON THE BACK END.
EXTRA POINT BY MCMANUS IS GOOD. 156 TO THE HALF. IT'S 21 THREE. GO TO SEATTLE NEXT WEEKEND IN THE DIVISIONAL ROUND. BUT FIRST THINGS FIRST. BEARS HAVE BEEN THE KINGS OF THE COMEBACK THIS YEAR. THEY HAVE ANOTHER ONE AT HAND. WE'LL FIND OUT. FIELDED IN THE ENDZONE, TAKE OVER THE 35 COMING UP AT HALF-TIME. IT WILL BE PER USUAL OR STATE FROM HALF-TIME SHOW WITH CHARISSA AND THE GANG CHECKING IN FROM THE FIELD WHERE THE WEATHER TURNS OUT TO BE NOT TERRIBLE. WE HAD A COUPLE OF DAYS AGO, WE LOOKED AT A WINTRY MIX, YOU KNOW WHEN 2535 PRE-GAME AS A SNOW GLOBE, IT WAS WHEN THE FIELD WAS ALMOST COMPLETELY COVERED BY LAKE EFFECT SNOW.
RIGHT NOW CONDITIONS ARE FINE. IT'S 32 DEGREES DOWN THERE REMINISCING WITH MIKE GOLIC ABOUT THAT BALL GAME THAT HE PLAYED IN GOING BACK TO WHAT WAS IT, LATE 80S IN THE 1919, 1988 88, PHILADELPHIA IN CHICAGO. MEANWHILE, WILLIAMS FIRES OVER THE MIDDLE GOOD BEGINNING TO THIS DRIVE AND THEY WILL GANG TACKLE LOVELAND UP AT THE 37-YARD LINE. REALLY GOOD JOB WITH SPLIT SAFETIES HITTING YOUR GUY COURTLAND LOVELAND FIRST TIME THEY'VE BEEN ABLE TO GET HIS HANDS ON THE FOOTBALL AND HE THAT TIME CALEB WILLIAMS GOT BACK AND THREW IT EXACTLY OVER TOP OF THOSE LINEBACKERS BETWEEN THE SAFETIES RIGHT WHERE IT NEEDED TO BE. THEY REALLY NEED POINTS HERE.
OBVIOUSLY A GAIN OF 22. DEEP DROP EYES NOW HIT AS HE THROWS AND THAT'S ALMOST PICKED OFF AT THE 33-YARD LINE WILLIAMS HIT AS HE THREW EDGERRIN COOPER COULD NOT COME UP WITH A PICK SECOND DOWN.
AGAIN WITHOUT MICAH PARSONS, WHO'S GOING TO BE ABLE TO GET HOME WITHOUT BLITZING THIS TIME IT'S GARY RASHAN GARY FROM THE BLIND SIDE WORKING ON THAT ROOKIE LEFT TACKLE DOES A GOOD JOB OF IMPACTING CALEB WILLIAMS WILLIAMS HAD TIME JUST KIND OF STARING DOWN HIS RECEIVER. BUT BECAUSE HE GOT HIT ALMOST A ANOTHER TURNOVER FOR THE BEARS.
BEARS HAVE ALL OF THEIR TIME-OUTS 118 TO THE HALF WILLIAMS FIRES OVER THE MIDDLE AND THAT'S INCOMPLETE COVERAGE. GOOD CROWD WANTS A PLAY AND THEY'LL GET IT. QUAY WALKER COVERING COLSTON LOVELAND THIRD AND TEN.
WALKER AT SIX FOR 245 POUNDS. AND THAT INSIDE LINEBACKER SPOT CONTINUES TO GET MORE AND MORE COMFORTABLE WITH JEFF HAFLEY SCHEME. HE AND XAVIER MCKINNEY REALLY THE COMMUNICATORS AND I THINK WALKER CAN BLITZ. HE'S GREAT OBVIOUSLY AGAINST THE RUN AND HE JUST CONTINUES TO GET BETTER AND BETTER IN SPACE AND COVERAGE AS HE SHOWED THERE ON THAT SECOND DOWN PLAY.
GO THIRD AND TEN, WILLIAMS STEPPING UP, STEPPING AWAY, SIGNALING DOWNFIELD. HE'S GOING TO KEEP IT HIMSELF AND SLIDES TO A STOP. SO NOW YOU'VE GOT A FOURTH DOWN. YOU GOT 63 62 61 SECONDS A MINUTE TO GO. YOU GOT A FOURTH DOWN HERE.
THEY'VE GONE FOR IT THREE TIMES ALREADY A COUPLE TIMES IN THEIR OWN TERRITORY. THREW AN INTERCEPTION ON ONE WHERE IT LOOKED LIKE WILLIAMS. AND MAYBE THE ROOKIE LUTHER BURDEN WEREN'T ON THE SAME PAGE ON THAT INTERCEPTION. AND THEN THEY GAVE UP THE SHORT FIELD AND THAT LAST POSSESSION. AND THE PACKERS TURNED THAT ONE INTO A TOUCHDOWN. FOURTH AND FOUR. LOOKS LIKE GREEN BAY WILL CALL A TIME-OUT. THEY DID. I'M THINKING THE SAME THING. I MEAN CHICAGO HAS ALL OF ITS TIMEOUTS. THEY DIDN'T WANT TO GO TOO QUICKLY BECAUSE IF THEY DON'T MAKE I THERE BY CAROLINA DAVE CANALES HAS DONE A HECK OF A JOB THERE IN CHARLOTTE WITH BRYCE YOUNG AND THAT TEAM JUST TO GET HIM INTO THE POST-SEASON. ALMOST PULL OFF AN UPSET. YEAH. DOWN BY.
14 EARLY ON. SO FOURTH AND FOUR CAN THEY KEEP THE DRIVE GOING. WILLIAMS THROWS OVER THE HALF AD HICKS GREEN BAY OFFENSIVE LINE HAS DONE A HECK OF A JOB. YOU CAN SEE HE'S BEEN UNDER PRESSURE ONLY ONE TIME. LOOK AT WHAT HE'S HAD TIME NINE OF 11 THREE TOUCHDOWNS. HE'S OUR NEXT GEN STATS POWERED BY AWS. LET'S SEE WHAT THEY DO HERE. THEY'RE STILL TRYING TO COME UP WITH MORE POINTS WITH THAT. NO TIMEOUTS HERE REMAINING IN THIS FIRST HALF OF THE PACKERS. AND THEY'LL GET THE BALL TO START THE SECOND HALF. LOVE DUMPS IT OFF HERE. CHRIS BROOKS BROOKS TAKES IT ACROSS THE 50 OUT OF BOUNDS, STOPPING THE CLOCK AT 25 SECONDS INSIDE CHICAGO TERRITORY. THEY SEND THREE RECEIVERS DOWNFIELD.
TOOK MOST OF THE DEFENSIVE BACKS OUT WITH THEM AND THEN JUST HAD AN ESCORT BLOCKER. THE TIGHT END MUSGRAVE IN FRONT BROOKS ABLE TO COVER A LOT OF GROUND. THERE.
PASSING YARDS ABOUT DOUBLE TOTAL YARDS CLOSE TO DOUBLE. DEEP DROP LOVE DEEP DOWNFIELD. A LITTLE TOO DEEP THAT TIME INTENDED FOR CHRISTIAN WATSON. COVERED BY TYRIQUE STEVENSON. THAT TOOK SIX SECONDS 19 TICKS LEFT. YEAH.
HE HAD THE MIDDLE OF THE FIELD OPEN THERE WITH REED WITH THE SAFETY BRISKER COMING DOWN. TOOK A SHOT INSTEAD. I THINK IT JUST SHOWS YOU THE CONFIDENCE THAT LOVES PLAYING WITH RIGHT NOW INSTEAD OF HURRYING AND FEELING LIKE HE NEEDS TO HUSTLE TO GET INTO FIELD GOAL RANGE, HE'S LIKE, OH, WE GOT TIME TO GET INTO FIELD GOAL RANGE. LET'S TRY TO TAKE A SHOT DOWN FIELD AND MY GUY NINE AND HE COMES UP UNABLE TO HIT IT. BUT THERE'S STILL PLENTY OF TIME TO GET INTO FIELD GOAL RANGE.
BEARS PLAYING THREE DEEP RIGHT NOW. THREE MAN RUSH LOVE FAKES LOOKS TO THE SIDELINE AND HE'S CLOSE TO A FIRST DOWN WITH 11 SECONDS. AND ANY POSITION HERE WHERE THEY CAN RUN ANOTHER PLAY MAYBE TWO AND TRY TO GET THREE MORE.
YEAH LOOK HOW DEEP THE DEFENDERS ARE AND WATCH STEVENSON HERE I'M SURE DENNIS ALLEN IS NOT GOING TO LOVE THIS. THEY'RE ACTUALLY THERE IN THE ORANGE CLEATS. JUST KIND OF TAKING HIS TIME TO COME UP AND RUN SUPPORT. YOU KNOW FOR A DEFENSE THAT HASN'T HAD A GREAT FIRST HALF. YOU LOVE TO SEE SOME EFFORT SOME ATTITUDE PLAY A LITTLE A LITTLE BIT OF A DIFFERENT KIND OF ENERGY FOR SURE.
RIGHT NOW YOU'RE LOOKING AT A 55 YARD FIELD GOAL LOVE TRYING TO MOVE CLOSER LOVE TO THE OUTSIDE. THAT'S INCOMPLETE TO THE WAY THEY'RE REED THE NEAREST TO THE PLAY. THEY'VE GOT SEVEN SECONDS AND.
DENNIS ALLEN HAD THREE DEFENDERS ON THAT RIGHT SIDELINE JUST ALL THE WAY OVER TRYING TO KEEP THE BALL INBOUNDS TO KEEP THAT GIVE UP THE COMPLETION. TACKLE HIM INBOUNDS KEEP THE CLOCK MOVING. THEY'RE JUST PROTECTING THE BOUNDARY AND DOING IT AGAIN ON THAT RIGHT SIDELINE. ACTUALLY BOTH SIDELINES YOU CAN SEE HOW FAR THEY ARE OVER THERE. THEY ARE. THE CHANCE.
TO RUN ONE MORE PLAY BEFORE THEY SEND IN THE FIELD GOAL GROUP. THERE'S THAT THREE DEEP AGAIN THREE MAN RUSH AGAIN. AND THAT ONE IS THROWN AWAY AND OUT OF BOUNDS. SO RIGHT NOW WITH TWO SECONDS TO SEND IN THE FIELD GOAL GROUP FOR WHAT WOULD BE A 55 YARD FIELD GOAL ATTEMPT FOR BRANDON MCMANUS. WITH THE.
WIND SO UNPREDICTABLE, OBVIOUSLY HERE IN CHICAGO AT SOLDIER FIELD, THIS IS NOT AN EASY KICK EVER. YEAH.
HOMER THE FABLED DOUBLE DOINK LAST PLAY-OFF GAME THAT WAS PLAYED HERE EIGHT YEARS AGO. AND THAT TIME-OUT IS TAKEN HERE. TIME-OUT BEFORE THE SNAP. BEFORE THE KICK, WHICH WOULD HAVE BEEN GOOD PLAY BEFORE.
THE SNAP TIME-OUT CHICAGO THEIR FIRST. OK. THIS WOULD BE A THIRTY-SECOND TIME-OUT.
AND BECAUSE THEY CALLED THAT TIME-OUT SO LATE. IT GIVES MCMANUS A CHANCE TO GET THAT KICK OFF AND KIND OF FEEL THE WIND. GET A READ ON THAT WIND. HE'S GOING TO GO OVER AND TAKE A FEW MORE SWINGS INTO THE NET. IT LOOKS LIKE. OR GET WARM.
ONE OF THE TWO OH HE'S GOT. TO COME RIGHT BACK. YEP. SO THE WIND PICKING UP RIGHT NOW AS IN MOST STADIUMS IT'S REALLY A SWIRLING WIND. TO TRY TO MAKE IT 24 TO 3. SO THE PACKERS A DOMINANT FIRST HALF AFTER CHICAGO HAD GONE DOWN THE FIELD ON THEIR OPENING POSSESSION TO TAKE A 3-0 LEAD FROM 55. AND IT'S A KICK THAT IS NO GOOD THIS TIME. SO THE TIME-OUT WORKED TO CHICAGO'S ADVANTAGE. FIRST ONE HAD WOULD HAVE BEEN GOOD. THIS ONE IS NOT. THERE'S A JUGGLED CATCH HOLD ONO WIN THAT TRIP TO SEATTLE. YEAH, THEY SURE DOMINATED THAT FIRST HALF FOR OFFENSIVE POSSESSIONS.
THOSE THREE TOUCHDOWN PASSES FROM LOVE AND THE MISSED. FIELD GOAL THERE AT THE END OF THE FIRST HALF.
BIG BOUNCE THROUGH THE ENDZONE MOMENTS AGO DOWN ON THE FIELD WITH BEN JOHNSON. BEN CAN YOU DESCRIBE YOUR FOURTH DOWN APPROACH GOING FOR IT MULTIPLE TIMES IN YOUR OWN TERRITORY. YEAH WE WANT TO MAXIMIZE OUR POSSESSIONS AND WE WANTED THE FOURTH DOWN PLAYS.
NOW HOW DO YOU DISRUPT THIS EXECUTION OF THE PACKERS OFFENSE. YEAH, WELL THAT'S A BIG REASON WHY WE'RE BEING AGGRESSIVE ON OFFENSE SO THAT WE CAN EXTEND OUR DRIVES AND SCORE POINTS OURSELVES. IT'S A REALLY GOOD OFFENSE WE'RE GOING AGAINST. WE NEED TO HOLD THEM TO FIELD GOALS IN THE RED ZONE. THANKS. THANKS. SO THE.
BEARS ALL SEASON LONG COMING FROM BEHIND. BUT THIS IS A VERY TALL TACKLE VERY TALL TASK.
AND THAT'S WHAT WE SAID. GOING FOR IT ON FOURTH DOWN IN YOUR OWN TERRITORY. YOU KNOW HE'S AGGRESSIVE BUT HE ALSO UNDERSTANDS WHAT HE'S UP AGAINST DEFENSIVELY LOVE GOES RIGHT TO WORK THROUGH THE AIR.
ALMOST GETS SACKED ROLLING THROWING AND THAT'S OUT OF BOUNDS AND INCOMPLETE. THE CROWD WANTS A GROUND BALL BUT HE WAS WAY OUT OF THE POCKET RIGHT. PUT THE HEAT ON THAT TIME. SECOND DOWN AND TEN. THIS CROWD IS JUST.
THERE WAITING FOR ANYTHING TO GET EXCITED ABOUT TO TRY TO GET BACK INTO THIS GAME AND THIS DEFENSE. DON'T FORGET THEY LEAD THE ENTIRE NFL IN TURNOVERS AND THEY HAVE CREATED A TON OF OPPORTUNITIES. MONTEZ SWEAT FOLLOWING THROUGH THERE WITH THE CROWD. HAD A LITTLE ENERGY ABOUT. THEY JUST LIKED IT. LOVE GOT HIT. NO CALL ON THE FIELD. BEARS HAD.
33 TAKEAWAYS. THAT'S ALMOST TWO PER GAME DURING THE COURSE OF THE REGULAR SEASON. SECOND DOWN AND TEN JACOBS HE GETS STOPPED IN THE BACKFIELD SO THE CROWD RISES TO THAT OCCASION. JARRETT IS THERE D'MARCO JACKSON TAKING THE PLACE OF TJ EDWARDS WHO GOT HURT EARLY IN HIS OUT THIRD DOWN? YEAH.
HE DOES A NICE JOB HERE, TIMING HIS BLITZ UP PERFECTLY. SEE THAT RIGHT TACKLE? GEORGE MORGAN NOT ENOUGH TIME TO BE ABLE TO CLIMB UP BECAUSE JACKSON GOT DOWNHILL. HE PLAYED FOR DENNIS ALLEN IN NEW ORLEANS. REALLY UNDERSTANDS THIS DEFENSE AND HAS HAD TO STEP UP WITH EDWARDS DOWN.
SO THIRD AND 12. THERE'S NOTHING LIKE A THREE AND OUT THAT WOULD GET THE CROWD BACK INTO THE GAME. PLAY CLOCK AT TWO. GETS THE PLAYOFF. PUMPS THROWS INCOMPLETE. SO NOW THE CROWD HAS SOMETHING TO CHEER ABOUT THAT TOOK 56 SECONDS AND THEY'LL GET THE BALL RIGHT BACK. THEY HAD A SEVEN MEN.
UP TO THE LINE OF SCRIMMAGE TRYING TO AFFECT THE COMMUNICATION HOUSE FAVORITE TO DOUBLE MUG. THEY BROUGHT BOTH THE LINEBACKERS TO TRY TO AFFECT THE INTERIOR OF THAT OFFENSIVE LINE FROM GREEN BAY. AND HIS FIRST TIME WE'VE SEEN JORDAN LOVE RUSH. HE DIDN'T FEEL COMFORTABLE ON THAT THIRD DOWN. GOOD JOB BY THE BEARS. ABOUT SCRAPING LINEBACKERS. GET OUT OF HERE. FOURTH DOWN IN THE PLAY IS WHELAN, WHO LED THE LEAGUE THIS YEAR AVERAGING 51.7 YARDS PER BOOT, THIRD BEST ALL TIME FIELDED AT THE 32. HERE'S DUVERNAY TO THE OUTSIDE. OUT OF BOUNDS AT THE 37-YARD LINE. SO ANOTHER GOOD PUNT CHICAGO GETTING THE BALL. THAT'S A 50 YARD BOOT AND A FIVE YARD RETURN.
YOU CALLED HIM THE COMEBACK KID. THEY'VE BEEN IN THIS POSITION. IT IS TOUGH. IT'S THE POST-SEASON. THE GREEN BAY PACKERS HAD A DOMINANT FIRST HALF. BUT YOU KNOW WHEN THEY PLAYED THE PACKERS EARLIER IN THE FIRST TWO TIMES THEY ONLY SCORED SIX POINTS IN THREE POINTS IN THE FIRST HALF AGAINST GREEN BAY. AND THEN TURNED IT ON MADE THE ADJUSTMENTS AT HALF-TIME SCORED 18 AND 22 IN THE SECOND HALF AND OVERTIME. SO THEY BELIEVE IT'S ONE THING ABOUT THIS TEAM RESILIENT AND THEY BELIEVE THAT THEY CAN FIND A WAY.
THAT WAS THE FIRST PUNT OF THE GAME. SCORED HERE ON THE GROUND MONANGAI CHICAGO. SO MUCH OF THEIR SUCCESS HAS BEEN THAT RUNNING GAME WITH SWIFT AND MONANGAI, BUT HOW MUCH OF A RUNNING GAME CAN YOU HAVE DOWN BY 18?
YEAH, WHEN YOU INVITED ME BACK THERE ON THE WHITE TABLECLOTH, DINING THERE FOR A QUICK HALF-TIME DINNER. THAT'S WHAT WE TALKED ABOUT. YOU KNOW YOU GET DOWN BY 18, IT IS TOUGH TO GET THEIR BALANCED ATTACK RUNNING MONANGAI DOWNHILL TO SET UP THOSE PLAY ACTION.
LOOKS NOTHING LIKE WHITE TABLECLOTH AND PLASTIC UTENSILS. YEAH, YEAH. GET THE BIG RIGHT TACKLE BENEDET OUT THERE TO THE RIGHT. YEAH, THERE HE IS. CAN THEY POSSIBLY GO THAT WAY? WILLIAMS FIRING OVER THE MIDDLE. THAT'S CAUGHT ON THE RUN. BALL IS OUT. WAS THE WHISTLE BLOWN AS THE QUESTION? THAT WAS LOVELAND MAKING THE GRAB OR NOT MAKING THE GRAB. WHAT ARE THEY GOING TO CALL IT? AND ZACCHEAUS COMES UP WITH THE BALL, BUT THEY'RE MOVING IT BACK NOW. INCOMPLETE PASS. IT WILL BE THIRD DOWN. PRETTY INTERESTING. YOU GOT ZACCHEAUS COMES IN AND RECOVERS IT. HAD IT BEEN A FUMBLE?
HERE'S BENEDET, BY THE WAY. YOU THINK HE'S IN THERE TO BLOCK? HE'S 30 YARDS DOWNFIELD RUNNING THE FIRST SPRINT. HE'S PROBABLY RUNNING A LONG TIME. AND THIS IS ANOTHER CLOSE ONE FOR THE BEARS. WE SAW ONE EARLIER. IT LOOKED LIKE A COMPLETION. THEY WAVED IT OFF AFTER HELP FROM THE REPLAY ASSISTANCE AND IT WAS AN INCOMPLETION. I THINK THEY'RE WAITING TO CONFIRM AND THEY'VE CONFIRMED IT INCOMPLETE. SO THIRD.
AND EIGHT. DEEP DROP. LOOK OUT FROM BEHIND. THROWS DOWN THE SIDELINE. IT'S CAUGHT 30-YARD LINE. AND THAT'S LOVELAND MAKING THE GRAB AND HOLDING ON THIS TIME.
THEY DID A HECK OF A JOB PUTTING VALENTINE THE CORNER IN A BIND. HE'S OVER HERE. HE SITS IN THE FLAT. HE'S GOT AN UNDERNEATH RECEIVER AND TWO DJ MOORE AND THEN THE TIGHT END GOES BEHIND HIM. HE'S KIND OF IN THE MIDDLE HOLE. SHOT MAKES THE THROW THERE. GOOD JOB OF PUTTING IT OVER THERE BEFORE THE SAFETY CAN COME OVER TO HELP OUT. THERE'S CALEB WILLIAMS. HE CAN SIT AND PLAY IN STRUCTURE OR THROW THOSE OFF BALANCE THROWS ACCURATELY. AND THAT'S WHAT HE PUT IT RIGHT ON THE MONEY.
GAIN OF 30. WILLIAMS ROLLING THROWING WIDE OPEN CATCH MADE TO THE 12-YARD LINE LOVELAND AGAIN THEIR NUMBER ONE DRAFT CHOICE 10TH OVERALL. BACK TO BACK FIRST DOWNS AND.
GOOD JOB HERE. GETTING THAT OVERAGGRESSIVE DEFENSE. HERE'S LOVELAND WATCH THIS DEFENSE FLOW WITH THIS PLAY ACTION LOOK NOW THIS LOOKS LIKE THE BEARS GOOD JOB ON THAT BOOT NAKED GET HIM TO THE OUTSIDE. DEFENSE FAST FLOWING OUT OF POSITION AND A GOOD JOB ON FIRST AND TEN MAKING THAT CALL WHEN THEY'RE EXPECTING YOU TO RUN THE FOOTBALL DOWNHILL YOU TRICK THEM THERE, BREAK A TREND AND GO PLAY ACTION. HAVE SMYTHE IN AS A FULLBACK. MONANGAI IS THE RUNNING BACK. FROM THE 12 MONANGAI PICKS UP A COUPLE FIGHTS HIS WAY TO THE TEN YARD LINE. SECOND DOWN, EIGHT.
YOU'RE DOWN 18 IN THE SECOND HALF. AND THIS IS I MEAN THIS GUY'S BEEN GOING FOR IT ON FOURTH DOWN EVERYWHERE. SO HE'S THINKING ABOUT WHATEVER IT TAKES TO COME AWAY WITH A TOUCHDOWN ON THIS DRIVE. JEFF HAFLEY BEING CHALLENGED HERE FOR REALLY FOR THE FIRST TIME. GOOD GOOD APPROACH GOOD PLAN. THEY'RE NOT JUST THROWING THE FOOTBALL MIXING IN JUST ENOUGH FOR THIS RUN TO MAKE THOSE LINEBACKERS AND SAFETIES HAVE TO RESPECT IT.
SECOND AND NINE MOORE COMES INTO THE BACKFIELD, TAKES IT AND HE GETS SMOTHERED. QUAY WALKER YOU TALK ABOUT NOT FOOLING SOMEBODY RIGHT THERE. SO THEY PUT MORE INTO THE BACKFIELD. GIVE IT TO HIM AND LOSE FOUR IN HIS FOURTH YEAR OUT.
OF GEORGIA AGAIN JUST GETS BETTER AND BETTER JEFF HAFLEY KIND OF AN EXTENSION OF THE DEFENSIVE CO-ORDINATOR. GOOD TIME TO BLITZ THAT SHOT RIGHT THROUGH THE A GAP YOU CAN SEE IN THE INTERIOR THERE. JONAH JACKSON WAS OCCUPIED ON HIS OUTSIDE SHOULDER DREW DALMAN THE CENTER. HE'S WORKING TO HIS LEFT. CREATED A NICE CREASE FOR SEVEN TO SHOOT RIGHT THROUGH.
SO THIRD DOWN, 13 GO EMPTY HERE. WILLIAMS THROWING AND DIVING FOR IT TO THE 11-YARD LINE AND IT'S INCOMPLETE. SO IT STARTED OUT SO PROMISINGLY. MEANWHILE NOW YOU GOT WILLIAMS WHO TOOK A SHOT. SO HE WILL HOP BACK TO THE SIDELINE. AND THE BEARS WILL HAVE TO ATTEMPT A FIELD GOAL. AND THE ONLY GOOD THING ABOUT THAT IS WILLIAMS POPS TO THE BENCH. I WONDER IF HE RETURNS A THREE POSSESSION DEFICIT INTO A TWO POSSESSION DEFICIT IF YOU MAKE IT YEAH. HE GETS STEPPED ON HERE AT THE END. I DON'T KNOW IT LOOKS LIKE HE JUST LOST HIS LOST HIS FOOTING THERE.
THAT WAS BARRYN SORRELL 99. SEE WHAT HAPPENS HERE. OOH THAT. MEANWHILE NOW YOU GOT A FIELD GOAL ATTEMPT FROM 34 YARDS BY CAIRO SANTOS, WHICH IS GOOD. SO A GOOD DRIVE, BUT IT STALLS. HAVE TO SETTLE FOR THREE AND ABOUT FIVE MINUTES INTO THE SECOND HALF IT'S 21 SIX GREEN E2 AND OUR BUDDIES BUC AND AIKMAN DINING OUT ON KIELBASA. PITTSBURGH GETTING READY FOR THAT ONE MONDAY NIGHT PITTSBURGH AND HOUSTON RUN BACK TO THE 36-YARD LINE. LET'S GO BACK TO WHAT HAPPENED RIGHT AFTER CALEB WENT TO THE BENCH. MEANWHILE. YOU'VE GOT A LITTLE ACTION AFTER THE WHISTLE. I THINK THEY THOUGHT IT WAS MAYBE.
A FUMBLE THERE. DEFINITELY SOME PUSHING AND SHOVING THERE AFTER THE WHISTLE . GO BACK TO WHEN WE SAW CALEB LEAVING THE FIELD. THAT RIGHT ANKLE JUST KIND OF GIVES OUT ON HIM. HE DID GET UP. HE WAS KIND OF WALKING A LITTLE BIT WITH A LIMP, BUT HE WAS FRUSTRATED. AND HE'S TALKING TO HIS COACHES RIGHT THERE. CLEARLY DIDN'T AGREE WITH MAYBE ONE OF THE CALLS I'M NOT SURE HE'S FRUSTRATED. THAT WENT ON FOR A WHILE THOUGH I'M SURE HE'S CALMED DOWN BY NOW. JT BARRETT, HIS QUARTERBACK COACH OVER THERE WITH HIM AND NOW THE PACKERS START FROM THE 37 AND THAT'S.
JOSH JACOBS GETTING STUFFED AFTER A PICK-UP OF ONE. CALEB TELLING THE OTHER DAY IN HE'S TIGHT INTENSE MOMENTS. HE THINKS OF HIMSELF ON THE BEACH. WELL. WHAT BEACH?
I DON'T KNOW WHAT HE'S THINKING ABOUT RIGHT NOW. YOU'RE THE BEACH GUY OUT IN CALI. YEAH, HE'S A COMPETITIVE GUY, RIGHT? I MEAN, HE HAS ALL GOOD INTENTIONS. HE'S A SUPER EMOTIONAL RIGHT NOW.
SECOND DOWN AND NINE. BLITZ GETS IT AWAY CAUGHT. IT'S GOING TO BE THIRD AND SHORT AFTER THE CATCH THERE BY WATSON THROWING OUT OF BOUNDS. THIRD DOWN TO SCORE THIRD AND THREE. THEY WERE ABLE TO PRESSURE JORDAN LOVE TWICE.
ON THAT OPENING SERIES TO START THE SECOND HALF DENNIS ALLEN ONLY PRESSURED HIM TWICE THE ENTIRE FIRST HALF, SO THEY DEFINITELY HAVE MADE SOME ADJUSTMENTS AND GOTTEN BETTER AT BEING ABLE TO GET AFTER LOVE SEE IF THEY CAN HERE ON THIS THIRD DOWN BECAUSE LOVE HAS HAD A BIG NIGHT ON THIRD AND SHORT A LOT OF TIMES OFF OF THE PLAY ACTION.
THIRD DOWN WITH TWO NOW THREE RECEIVERS SET TO THE RIGHT. JACOBS GOING BACK AND FORTH. PLAY CLOCK AT ONE. JUST GET IT OFF FOUR MAN RUSH LOVE CHASED STEPPING UP. LOOKS DOWNFIELD. THROWS OUT OF BOUNDS. FOURTH DOWN.
WELL IT DIDN'T LOOK LIKE THEY COULD STOP HIM IN THAT FIRST HALF. PACKERS PUNTING TEAM COMING OUT. THEY'RE NOT GOING FOR IT WITH THIS LEAD. THEY COULD NOT STOP HIM. AND WE TALKED ABOUT THOSE FOR THOSE FIRST FOUR POSSESSIONS IN THE FIRST HALF. THEY WENT UP AND DOWN THE FIELD. BUT HERE DIFFERENT STORY COMPLETELY GIVE THE BEARS CREDIT AND DENNIS ALLEN CREDIT FOR GETTING THEM OFF THE FIELD AGAIN TWO STRAIGHT THREE AND OUTS.
DUVERNAY BACK INSIDE HIS TEN YARD LINE. WHELAN MENTIONED HE LED THE LEAGUE IN PUNTING AVERAGE 51 SEVEN, THIRD BEST OF ALL TIME TO SEND IT DOWN THERE. AND IT'S A SHORT KICK THIS TIME. IT TAKES A GOOD GREEN BAY BOUNCE AND ROLLS DEAD. MEANWHILE I'M HUNGRY AFTER THAT GO DOWN WILLIAMS BACK TO THROW DEEP DOWNFIELD. CAUGHT AT THE 40-YARD LINE TO THE 43. GOES LUTHER BURDEN TACKLED THERE BY WILLIAMS. BIG GAIN TO START THIS 125.
MOVE THE LAUNCH POINT. LITTLE HALF ROLL HERE AWAY FROM THE RECEIVER. ROLLS TO HIS RIGHT. LINEBACKERS IMPACTED WITH THEIR EYES SPLITS THOSE TWO LINEBACKERS WITH A GREAT THROW AND BURDEN IS ABLE TO PROTECT HIMSELF FROM THE SAFETY. USED HIS EYES AS WELL TO MOVE COOPER THE LINEBACKER TO GIVE HIM THAT NICE THROWING WINDOW.
HIS SECOND CATCH HEATH COMPLETED PASSES TO ONLY THREE RECEIVERS TONIGHT TO THE GROUND, BUT NOTHING HAPPENING ON THE GROUND. STARTING TO ASK YOU HOW MUCH CAN YOU INCORPORATE THE GROUND GAME IN THIS PARTICULAR SITUATION? YOU'RE DOWN BY 15.
YEAH, I THINK WE'RE EARLY ENOUGH HERE IN THE THIRD QUARTER. TEN MINUTES STILL TO GO. I THINK YOU STICK TO YOUR GUNS. YOU STICK TO YOUR GAME PLAN. THAT'S SUCH A BIG STRENGTH OF THEIRS AGAINST GREEN BAY'S DEFENSE. EVEN WITHOUT MICAH, YOU CAN'T AT THIS POINT GET INTO PANIC MODE AND BECOME A ONE-DIMENSIONAL ATTACK. I THINK IT'S SUCH A STRENGTH OF THEIRS GETTING DOWNHILL. YOU MIX IT IN, BUT AT THE END OF THE DAY YOU'VE GOT TO SCORE TOUCHDOWNS. YOU CANNOT KICK FIELD GOALS AND OBVIOUSLY BEN JOHNSON'S FIRST ONE TO TELL YOU THAT.
SECOND AND EIGHT ON THE GROUND AGAIN CAN SMITH GET AROUND THE CORNER. YES HE CAN. AND HE SHOVED OUT OF BOUNDS A YARD AND A HALF SHY OF THE FIRST DOWN BY EDGERRIN COOPER. THIRD DOWN. UNDER SEVEN NOW IN THE THIRD. THIRD DOWN A LONG YARD. SAVAGE. JEFFERSON.
TO THE GROUND AGAIN. GIVE IT TO MONANGAI. AND A FLAG COMES IN. IT HAS BEEN A PENALTY FREE GAME. THERE'S BEEN ONLY ONE ACCEPTED PENALTY TO THIS POINT IN THE GAME. ONE.
HE'S TALKED ABOUT. CAN THEY GET AWAY FROM THAT RUN GAME? NECESSARY ROUGHNESS DEFENSE NUMBER 25. JUMPING ON THE PILE 15-YARD PENALTY WILL BE ADDED TO THE PLAY AUTOMATIC FIRST DOWN.
PENALTY ON KEISEAN NIXON. WE'LL SHOW YOU THE PENALTY ON NIXON WHERE HE COMES IN LATE. JUMPS INTO THE PILE. BUT THIS IS THE MONEY THAT THEY SPENT. THEY INVESTED IN THE INTERIOR. GOOD JOB HERE. GETTING A PUSH MONANGAI IS ABLE TO GET THAT FIRST DOWN AND THERE'S 25 GOING UP AND OVER LATE. AND THAT'S WHERE THE PENALTY CAME IN. YOU HAVE A FIRST DOWN AT THE 30-YARD LINE. CLOCK TICKING AT 615 TO PLAY IN THE THIRD. WILLIAMS OUT OF THE PISTOL, FAKING SPINNING, LOOKING, THROWING. FINDS THE OPEN MAN FIRST DOWN AND THAT IS D'ANDRE SWIFT OUT OF THE BACKFIELD. BOY GREAT JOB.
HERE BY CALEB WILLIAMS SHOWING HIS GROWTH AND MATURITY WITHIN THIS OFFENSE. INSTEAD OF PANICKING HE'S DOWN BY 15. HE'S GOING TO WANT TO MAKE A PLAY WITH HIS LEGS INSTEAD. KEEPS HIS EYES DOWNFIELD, FINDS HIS CHECKDOWN AND A GOOD JOB BY SWIFT BEING ABLE TO MOVE AWAY FROM THOSE LINEBACKERS. HE'S NOT RUNNING AROUND, HE'S JUST THERE AS A CHECKDOWN AND WE ALL KNOW HOW DANGEROUS HE CAN BE ANY TIME HE IS CATCHING THE FOOTBALL OUT OF THE BACKFIELD.
GAIN OF 15 2 TO 15 MONANGAI IS THE BACK. WILLIAMS CAN'T TURN THE CORNER. SWUNG DOWN AFTER A GAIN OF ONE BY MCDUFFIE. THE MAN WHO CAME IN TO REPLACE COOPER. SECOND DOWN AND NINE.
RED ZONE READ THERE AND ACTUALLY THE MAN WHO ENDS UP BRINGING HIM DOWN WAS HIS READ. SO EITHER WAY IT'S GOING TO BE STUFFED AT THE LINE OF SCRIMMAGE WHETHER HE KEPT IT OR GAVE IT AWAY. BOY, WHAT AN OPPORTUNITY FOR THE BEARS FROM WHERE THIS GAME WAS AT HALF-TIME TO BE INSIDE THE 15-YARD LINE WITH A CHANCE TO SEE IF THEY GO FOR ONE OR FOR TWO.
WELL, BUT. WE'LL GET TO THAT IN A SECOND. WE CERTAINLY WILL. THEY'RE ZERO FOR TWO SO FAR IN THE RED ZONE. THEY NEED TO CAPITALIZE ON THIS OPPORTUNITY.
SECOND DOWN AND NINE. WILLIAMS THROWS CAUGHT INSIDE THE TEN YARD LINE LOVELAND IS THERE. THAT'S GOING TO MAKE IT THIRD DOWN A HUGE THIRD AND FOUR.
WE CAN DISCUSS THAT IF THEY END UP GETTING THE TOUCHDOWN RIGHT NOW HAFLEY WHEN THEY GET DOWN IN THE RED ZONE YOU CAN SEE THE PRESSURE FEELS DIFFERENT. LINEBACKERS COMING DOWNHILL, SAFETIES THEY'RE BLITZING WHETHER IT'S RUN OR PASS. LET'S SEE WHAT THEY DO HERE ON THIS THIRD DOWN.
TWO DRIVES IN THE RED ZONE TWO FIELD GOALS THIRD DOWN AND FOUR. THIS IS GUY IN THIS AREA LOVELAND. BURDEN MOVED INTO THE SLOT. SWIFT FLANKS OFF THE LEFT SHOULDER. GIVE IT TO HIM. CAN HE GET THE FIRST DOWN? HE'S VERY CLOSE. APPEARS TO BE A LITTLE SHORT. SO HERE YOU GO. YOU GOT A FOURTH AND ONE. ANOTHER FOURTH DOWN TWO. COULD HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY NOT TO GO FOR IT. THEY KICKED A FIELD GOAL ON THEIR FIRST POSSESSION BRINGING MORE BIG BODIES IN. GOING TO GO WITH THAT THREE TIGHT END LOOK. ONE OF FOUR SO FAR ON FOURTH DOWN.
GOT THEIR POWER BACK IN AND MONANGAI. CAN THEY GET THAT YARD. THEY'RE GOING TO THROW IT. HE'S UNDER PRESSURE. HE THROWS AND IT'S GOING TO BE INTERCEPTED AT THE TWO YARD LINE BY TY'RON HOPPER. YOU COULDN'T HAVE A MORE DEFLATING ENDING TO A DRIVE. DJ MOORE FELL DOWN AND A PICK HERE. YEAH SECOND INTERCEPTION ON A FOURTH DOWN I THINK THEY JUST TRIED TO CATCH GREEN BAY NAPPING WITH A PLAY ACTION LOOK THAT'S WHO HE WANTED TO GO TO IS DJ MOORE. HE FALLS DOWN THE PRESSURE TOO MUCH. HE JUST PUTS IT UP INTO THE AIR. AND THE BEARS ONCE AGAIN. SO THE BEARS SELF-DESTRUCTING ON THAT LAST DRIVE. STILL 21 SIX. GREEN BAY TAKES OVER AT THEIR OWN NINE YARD LINE. FIRST DOWN.
FOR. LOVE GO TO THE AIR AND DUMPS IT OFF TO ELIGIBLE LINEMAN WHO CAME IN. AND THEN THE BALL COMES LOOSE AND THE BEARS THOUGHT THEY HAD IT FOR A MOMENT. AND THEN IT GOES OUT OF BOUNDS OF ALL CRAZY STUFF THEY WANT TO DARIAN KINNARD ON A TACKLE ELIGIBLE LOST IT AND IT ROLLS OUT OF BOUNDS OFF GERVON DEXTER SR.
OUT OF BOUNDS. THE RETURNS TO THE SPOT OF THE FUMBLE. WELL, KINNARD LOOKS LIKE HE'S PLAYED SOME RUNNING BACK IN HIS DAY. JUST TRUCKING THE LINEBACKER, BUT THEN HECK OF A JOB. THAT'S WHAT THE BEARS HAVE BEEN DOING ALL YEAR. COMES OFF OF HIS FOOT. THEY'VE BEEN GETTING THE BALL LOOSE EXACTLY WHAT THEY NEEDED AND INSTEAD OF POUNCING ON IT, DEXTER COMES IN TO AGGRESSIVELY. THE BALL FLIPS OUT OF HIS HANDS AND ANOTHER MISSED OPPORTUNITY FOR CHICAGO.
GOES INTO THE BOOKS AS A SIX YARD COMPLETION TO KENNARD. SECOND AND FOUR AFTER ALL THAT. JACOBS THAT'S A FIRST DOWN TO THE 2215 LEFT IN THE THIRD. EDMUNDS MAKES THAT TACKLE.
I THINK IT'S WORTH GOING BACK TO SHOW THIS FOURTH DOWN CALL. I THINK YOU AND I THOUGHT SNEAK RUN THE FOOTBALL, BUT INSTEAD THEY DECIDED TO THROW IT. HE WANTS TO GO TO MOORE WHO'S GOING TO WORK TO THE INSIDE AND GO OUT OR COLE KMET INSTEAD. MOORE ENDS UP SLIPPING. LOOK AT KMET. HE GETS CAUGHT UP AT THE LINE OF SCRIMMAGE AND THEN THERE'S A BUST IN THE INTERIOR. IN THE PASS PROTECTION. SO THERE'S A LOT THERE, BUT A QUARTERBACK SNEAK OR A RUN INTO THE MIDDLE AND YOU PROBABLY PICK UP THE FIRST DOWN. SOMETIMES TERMINAL CUTENESS CAN DO YOU IN FIRST DOWN FROM THE 21. LOVE AND AGAIN THE RECEIVER THIS TIME FALLING DOWN. SO IT'LL BE SECOND DOWN AND TEN.
CROWD REACTING FOR A INTENTIONAL. GROUNDING RECEIVER JUST FELL ON HIS ROUTE LIKE YOU SAID AL WELL THIS BEARS DEFENSE HAS DONE IT ALL YEAR. THEY DID IT AGAIN MEANING CREATE TURNOVERS. NUMBER ONE IN THE NFL IN CREATING 33 TAKEAWAYS I MEAN PLUS 22 ON THE YEAR IN TURNOVER MARGIN TODAY MINUS TWO. AND BOTH OF THOSE INTERCEPTIONS COMING ON FOURTH DOWN.
AND HAD A BEAUTIFUL OPPORTUNITY ON THAT FUMBLE. YEP OUT OF BOUNDS IT WENT GREEN BAY KEEPS THE BALL GREEN BAY KEEPS THE DRIVE ALIVE AND LOVE ALMOST GOT SACKED AND THROWS. AND NOW THE CROWD WANTS INTENTIONAL GROUNDING ON THAT. YEAH, THAT WILL BE THAT ONE WILL COME IN. IT'S NOT DOWN.
YET BUT IT'S GOING TO COME IN. OFFICIALS DISCUSSING IT AND THEY'RE GOING TO THROW THAT ONE.
THERE YOU GO AUSTIN BOOKER PUT THE HEAT ON THAT TIME. ADRIAN HILL WE'VE SEEN SO LITTLE OF ADRIAN TONIGHT.
GROUNDING OFFENSE NUMBER TEN. ALL THE RETURNS AT THE SPOT OF THE FOUL WITH LOSS OF DOWN. THIRD DOWN.
YEAH. THEY'RE DIALING UP THIS PRESSURE REMEMBER THEY COULD NOT GET JORDAN LOVE OFF HIS SPOT EVERY TIME HE DROPPED BACK TO THROW. HE HAD PLENTY OF TIME IN THAT FIRST HALF. THAT'S NOT BEEN THE STORY HERE. THERE IT IS INSIDE THAT TACKLE BOX AREA TAKES A HUGE HIT AND JUST TRIES TO SAY OH, NO, NO, I'LL THROW IT TO MY CHECKDOWN. BUT CLEARLY NOBODY THERE RIGHT. CALL BY THE OFFICIALS AND BEARS DEFENSE LOOKS VERY DIFFERENT IN THIS SECOND HALF.
THAT IS ONLY THE SECOND INTENTIONAL GROUNDING OF JORDAN LOVE'S CAREER. THIRD AND 20 IN THE CROWD RISING AGAIN AS ONE. RUSH FOR OVER THE MIDDLE CATCHES MADE AND BOUNCING HIS WAY OUT TO THE 23-YARD LINE GOES CHRIS BROOKS. AND COMES THE PUNT GROUP. THEY HAD FIRST TWO SERIES.
FOR GREEN BAY. THEY HIT A COUPLE THREE AND OUTS THIS TIME AGAIN THEY KEEP GREEN BAY DEEP IN THEIR OWN TERRITORY SO THEY MISS OUT ON THE TURNOVER OPPORTUNITY TO RECOVER THAT FUMBLE, BUT THEY STILL DO A GOOD JOB OF PRESSURING JORDAN LOVE TO GET HIM BEHIND THE STICKS AND GET HIM OFF THE FIELD AGAIN.
SO WE DIDN'T SEE WHELAN AT ALL IN THE FIRST HALF, AND NOW WE SEE HIM FOR THE THIRD TIME IN THE SECOND HALF. DUVERNAY BACK TO RECEIVE IT. DUVERNAY MOVING UP, MOVING BACK 28-YARD LINE GETS AROUND THE CORNER. DUVERNAY ON HIS WAY. DUVERNAY STAYING INBOUNDS AND A GOOD RUN BACK AND AGAIN CHICAGO IS IN PRIME SHAPE AND THEY TAKE ADVANTAGE OF IT. THAT'S THE ISSUE.
BUT DUVERNAY IS ALWAYS DANGEROUS. BUT I'LL TELL YOU HE PICKED UP A FEW GOOD BLOCKS WHEN HE MADE THAT FIRST MAN MISS. IT'S ALWAYS ABOUT TRYING TO MAKE THAT FIRST GUY MISS, TO BE ABLE TO SET UP THE BLOCKS. THERE IT IS NOW HE GETS THE BLOCKS DOWN THAT RIGHT SIDE. THEY BUILD HIM A HECK OF A WALL AND CALEB WILLIAMS AND BEN JOHNSON ARE SET UP IN PLUS TERRITORY AT THE 35-YARD LINE. 35 SECONDS TO GO IN THIS THIRD QUARTER. BIG OPPORTUNITY AGAIN.
IS DEVIN HESTER. HE'S LOVING THAT ONE. A HALL OF FAMER DID IT AS A RETURNER. THERE HE IS 50 YARD BOOT 46 YARD RETURN BEARS AGAIN GREAT OPPORTUNITY. SHORT FIELD BALL TO 3515 POINT DEFICIT. MONANGAI IS IN THE BACKFIELD. WILLIAMS LOOKING PRESSURED, THROWS ALONG THE SIDELINE AND THAT IS INBOUNDS AND CAUGHT THERE BY DURHAM SMYTHE. THE NUMBER THREE TIGHT END.
CALEB WILLIAMS EVEN THOUGH HE'S PLAYING WITHIN STRUCTURE IN THIS BEN JOHNSON OFFENSE NEVER UNDERESTIMATE HIS ABILITY TO KEEP PLAYS ALIVE WITH HIS FEET. COMES VERY NATURAL TO HIM AND HE MAY NEED TO DO THAT HERE IN THIS FOURTH QUARTER.
WANT TO GET A PLAYOFF BEFORE THE QUARTER EXPIRES? AND THEY DO. DOWN THE SIDELINE TWO DEEP INTENDED DID E SURGERY. HE'S REHABBING RIGHT NOW AND IN THE BUILDING TONIGHT. MEANWHILE THIRD DOWN AND FOUR HERE AND PICKING UP THE FIRST DOWN IS KYLE MONANGAI. THERE HE IS. THIS PACKERS DEFENSE HAS DONE.
A HECK OF A JOB DEFENDING THE RUN AGAIN WITHOUT DEVONTE WYATT AND THE INTERIOR. EVERYONE'S TALKING ABOUT MICAH PARSONS FOR GOOD REASONS, BUT THEY MISSED DEVANTE WYATT AND CHICAGO HAS BEEN A DOMINANT RUSHING TEAM 144 YARDS A GAME, ALMOST FIVE YARDS A CARRY TONIGHT. THAT'S BEEN A TOTALLY DIFFERENT STORY. THIS GREEN BAY DEFENSE HAS STEPPED UP TO THE PHYSICALITY OF THE GAME FROM THE.
24. TRAPILO HALF HAS BEEN SPENT IN THE GREEN BAY END WILLIAMS THROWS AND IT'S DROPPED AT THE SEVEN YARD LINE INTENDED THERE FOR SMYTHE. THE NUMBER THREE TIGHT END MCDUFFIE COVERS ON THE PLAY SECOND DOWN.
AND NOW I THINK MCDUFFIE CAUGHT UP TO THIS. YOU KNOW, THE BALL FLOATED IN THE AIR TO TRY TO GET IT UP AND OVER MCDUFFIE WHO'S BEATEN ON THE PLAY BUT HIS HUSTLE ON THIS PLAY, YOU KNOW HE DOESN'T SEE IT. HE READS THE EYES. HE GOT HIS SHOULDER PAD ON THE GAME AND GOT BACK INTO PHASE WITH THAT BALL FLOATING TRYING TO GET IT UP AND OVER HIM. SO HECK OF A JOB RECOVERING THERE BY ISAIAH MCDUFFIE.
YOU SAW COOPER GOING BACK TO THE LOCKER ROOM, SO HE'S DONE FOR THE NIGHT. WILLIAMS THROWING INCOMPLETE IN THE ENDZONE. TRY TO GET IT TO ROME ODUNZE PLAYING FOR THE FIRST TIME IN OVER A MONTH. INCOMPLETE THIRD AND TEN.
A GOOD ROUTE HERE ACTUALLY. ZACCHEAUS 14 KEEPS THE CORNER UP TIGHT. HE'S POINTING BUT HE GETS HELD THERE HIMSELF. IF THAT BALL IS THROWN TO THE RIGHT OUT TOWARDS THE BOUNDARY, HE'D HAD A BETTER CHANCE OF RUNNING UNDERNEATH IT. BUT INSTEAD YOU CAN SEE IT'S UPFIELD WHERE THE SAFETY IS THERE AND THE BALL IS BEHIND THE RECEIVER.
THIRD DOWN AND TEN. WILLIAMS UNDER PRESSURE LOSES IT. DOWN HE GOES. LUKE VAN NESS IS ABLE TO STRIP IT. RECOVERED BY CHICAGO BACK AT THE 36-YARD LINE. FOURTH AND FOREVER NOW.
YEAH A LITTLE TWIST THERE ON THAT LEFT SIDE. AND LUKAS VAN NESS WHO BY THE WAY A LOT OF PACKERS FANS HAVE BEEN WONDERING HOW AND WHEN WOULD HE BE ABLE TO COME BACK WITH PARSONS DOWN MAKES A HUGE PLAY AT A PIVOTAL TIME FOR THE GREEN BAY DEFENSE. HE WORKS TO THE OUTSIDE. YOU SEE RASHAN GARY TO THE INSIDE AND THAT LITTLE MOVEMENT IMPACTS THE LEFT TACKLE, THE ROOKIE THERE TO GET TO HIM.
SO FOURTH AND 19 HAVE TO GO FOR THE 51 YARD FIELD GOAL OFF THE FOOT OF SANTOS AND THAT ONE IS GOOD, BUT IT STAYS A TWO POSSESSION GAME 1329 TO GO IN THE FOURTH. IT'S NOW 21 NINE. PAT.
AWS. N LOVE TONIGHT, ESPECIALLY IN THE FIRST HALF WITH THE PLAY ACTION GAME EARLY. WE SAW HIM IN A LOT OF SHORT YARDAGE THIRD AND SHORT. TAKING SOME CHANCES AND IT REALLY WORKED OUT FOR HIM. YOU SEE FIVE OF NINE 104 YARDS AND A TOUCHDOWN 11 YARDS PER ATTEMPT. AND AGAIN SINGLE COVERAGE FOUR OF FIVE. NOW THE BEARS TO THEIR CREDIT MADE SOME ADJUSTMENTS. THEY DIALED UP THE PRESSURE IN THE SECOND HALF. BUT THE PLAY ACTION GAME HAS BEEN STRONG. WHEN HE'S HAD TIME AND THEY'VE KIND OF FOUND THAT RHYTHM.
AND THAT BEAR DEFENSE. THE ADJUSTMENTS HAVE BEEN TERRIFIC. AND MEANWHILE THAT DIDN'T GET TO THE LANDING ZONE. SO THE GREEN BAY PACKERS NOW AS THAT KICK LANDED SHY OF THE 20.
AGAINST THE KICKING TEAM NUMBER EIGHT BALL WILL BE PLACED AT THE 40-YARD LINE. FIRST DOWN.
BRIAN URLACHER THE GREAT LINEBACKER FOR THE CHICAGO BEARS IN ATTENDANCE THERE HE WAS WAVING THE TOWEL TRYING TO GET THE CROWD STIRRED UP ONE MORE TIME AS HE CAME UP DURING THE BREAK. PRETTY COOL. HE AND DEVIN HESTER, BOTH WITH THEIR HALL OF FAME JACKETS ON. COMING BACK TO SUPPORT THEIR BOYS 13 YEAR CAREER. MEANWHILE, LOVE READY TO GO TO WORK HERE. LOVE ON THE NIGHT 12 TO 23 163. THOSE THREE TOUCHDOWNS. LOOK AT THAT TD MISSED THE FIELD GOAL. NOW PUTT PUTT PUTT. BUT AFTER THAT KICK-OFF THEY'RE.
GOING TO START AT THE 40-YARD LINE. SO THE BEARS HAVE HAD ALL THE MOMENTUM. AND NOW THE NOW THE PACK GET TO START AT THE 40. THAT'S WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU LANDED SHY OF THE 20-YARD LINE. MEANWHILE JACOBS BOTTLED HIM UP AND YOU GOT A FLAG HERE TONIGHT. THERE'S ONLY BEEN ONE PENALTY AGAINST CHICAGO TO THIS POINT THREE AGAINST GREEN BAY.
ILLEGAL FORMATION OFFENSE NUMBER ZERO COVERED THE TIGHT END. THAT PENALTY IS DECLINED. SECOND DOWN.
TAKE THE PLAY. THE ROOKIE MATTHEW BOLTON ON THE LINE OF SCRIMMAGE. SO SECOND DOWN AND TEN. AGAIN THE CROWD RISING AS ONE. REED IN MOTION. LOVE OVER THE MIDDLE INCOMPLETE. IT'S CONTESTED THERE BEAUTIFULLY. WATCH HIM. THE INTENDED RECEIVER JALEN JOHNSON WITH THE BREAKUP THIRD DOWN AND TEN.
BOY WHAT A PLAY BY JALEN JOHNSON. THIS IS NOT EASY TO DO AGAINST CHRISTIAN WATSON. THERE'S THE MATCH-UP RIGHT THERE. GIVES HIM A HARD LOOK TO THE OUTSIDE TRYING TO SET UP TO GET BACK INSIDE. AND JOHNSON FINISHES ON THE PLAY TO GET A HAND ON THE FOOTBALL RIGHT THERE TO KNOCK IT OUT OF THE HANDS OF WATSON AND SET UP ANOTHER THIRD DOWN. BOY DENNIS ALLEN AND THE ADJUSTMENTS ARE ON POINT FOR THIS BEARS DEFENSE.
THE SECOND HALF HE'S TURNED HIM INTO THE 85 BEARS. THIRD AND TEN. BROOKS IS THE RUNNING BACK. LOVE UNDER PRESSURE, THROWS IT OFF THE BACK OF ONE OF HIS LINEMEN AND INCOMPLETE MONTEZ SWEAT PUT THAT HEAT ON AND ONCE AGAIN THAT BEAR DEFENSE CREATES A QUICK THREE AND OUT.
IT'S INCREDIBLE. I MEAN, WE TALKED ABOUT HOW THESE GUYS BELIEVE IN FINDING WAYS TO WIN GAMES IN THE SECOND HALF, DESPITE HOW POORLY THINGS WENT IN THE FIRST HALF. THEY DO NOT GIVE UP AND THEY'RE SWEAT WHO'S BEEN THEIR GUY, THE LEADER OF THIS DEFENSIVE FRONT HAS TO BE ABLE TO MAKE A PLAY WHEN IT MATTERS, GETS TO THE INSIDE AND GOOD JOB THERE. BEEN ABLE TO AFFECT LOVE AGAIN BUT GIVE CREDIT TO THE COVERAGE DOWNFIELD TO MAKE LOVE HOLD ON TO THAT FOOTBALL TO ALLOW SWEAT TO GET HOME. I DON'T KNOW IF THEY'RE GOING TO TALK.
YEAH, THAT PASS WENT OFF THE BACK OF. LET'S TALK ABOUT GROUNDING HERE. INTENTIONAL GROUNDING OFFENSE NUMBER TEN. TEN YARD PENALTY WITH LOSS OF DOWN. FOURTH DOWN.
YEAH. NOW I SAW CHRIS BROOKS COMING OUT OF THE BACKFIELD 30. AND I THOUGHT MAYBE HE WAS CLOSE ENOUGH THAT THEY WOULD HAVE NOT CALLED THIS WATCH. THERE'S THE PRESSURE BUT WATCH 30 AS A CHECKDOWN JUST KIND OF LEAK OUT OF THE BACKFIELD. BUT THE BALL HITS THE OFFENSIVE LINEMAN. BUT IT'S IF IT IF IT'S GOING RIGHT TOWARDS THIRD. AND SO.
AND HOW CRAZY IS IT IN HIS CAREER. LOVE HAD HAD ONE INTENTIONAL GROUNDING. NOW HE'S GOT TWO IN THE LAST FEW MINUTES. HERE'S WHELAN TO PUNT. FORD DRIVES FOUR PUNTS. DUVERNAY IS BACK INSIDE HIS 20. DUVERNAY WAITING, HOPPING AROUND, BACKING UP FROM THE 13. FIRST MAN MISSES NOW PAST THE 30. GOOD RUN BACK OUT OF BOUNDS AROUND THE 35-YARD LINE. 12.5 TO PLAY IN THE FOURTH AND WE ARE BACK TO SOLDIER FIELD AND CHICAGO
SO MANY COME FROM BEHIND. WINS FOR CHICAGO. BUT IN THE POST-SEASON, THEIR LARGEST FOURTH QUARTER COMEBACK. FIVE POINTS AGAINST THE GIANTS BACK IN 1933. THAT WAS THE VERY FIRST NFL CHAMPIONSHIP GAME. MEANWHILE, THEY START THIS DRIVE WILLIAMS DANCING, WAITING, LOOKING. HE'S GOING TO KEEP IT HIMSELF. HE'S GOING TO GET AROUND THE CORNER, STAY INBOUNDS AND THEN DIVE FOR A FIRST DOWN. WHAT A JOB. BY THAT SECONDARY THOUGH PROVIDING NOTHING FOR HIM.
YEAH YOU ALWAYS HEAR THE TERM PLASTER AND THAT WAS EMPHASIZED JEFF HAFLEY SAYING BECAUSE OF THE RESPECT THEY HAVE FOR THE BIG PLAY ABILITY OF WHAT CALEB WILLIAMS CAN DO OFF SCHEDULE. BUT IT IF EVERYBODY PLASTERED THE PROBLEM IS NOBODY'S THERE TO ACCOUNT FOR CALEB WILLIAMS OTHER THAN THE FRONT FOUR. FIRST DOWN FROM THE 45 HE FIRES TO THE SIDELINE, CAUGHT AND OUT OF BOUNDS AT THE 34-YARD LINE IS COLSTON LOVELAND.
DJ MOORE CLEARS THIS OUT, OPENS UP A HUGE VACANCY IN THAT ZONE DEFENSE AND CALEB WILLIAMS C2 TO THE OUTSIDE WATCH. HE'LL CLEAR IT OUT. TAKE THE DEFENDERS WITH HIM AND THERE'S COURTLAND OR COLSTON LOVELAND OUT TO THE OUTSIDE AND A NICE BIG OPENING. NICE WELL-DESIGNED PLAY THERE BY BEN JOHNSON AND A PERFECT THROW IN RHYTHM BY THE QUARTERBACK CALEB WILLIAMS. 22 YARD GAIN, FIVE CATCHES TONIGHT FOR LOVELAND TEN TARGETS. WILLIAMS FIRES. THAT'S INCOMPLETE INSIDE THE 20-YARD LINE WAS ROME ODUNZE COVERED THERE BY CARRINGTON VALENTINE WHO HAD AN EARLIER INTERCEPTION.
BEARS HAVE HAD THEIR OPPORTUNITIES IN THE SECOND HALF. JEFF HAFLEY AND THIS DEFENSE FROM GREEN BAY HAS HAS REALLY STEPPED UP. CHICAGO'S BEEN DOWN TO THE 16-YARD LINE THIS SECOND HALF. GOT A FIELD GOAL DOWN TO THE SIX YARD LINE ON THAT FOURTH DOWN. AND SHORT THREW AN INTERCEPTION DOWN TO THE 24-YARD LINE AND HAD TO COME AWAY WITH A FIELD GOAL. HERE THEY ARE IN PLUS TERRITORY AGAIN.
CAN THEY FINALLY CASH IN SECOND AND TEN? PLENTY OF TIME. 11.5 LEFT IN REGULATION. WILLIAMS FIRES DOWN THE SIDELINE, CAUGHT AGAIN INSIDE THE BOUNDARY. LOVELAND ONCE MORE. FIRST DOWN.
THEY BROUGHT COLE KMET OVER IN MOTION. IT CREATES AN OPPORTUNITY IN A MATCH-UP ONCE AGAIN FOR THIS ROOKIE TIGHT END OUT OF MICHIGAN. LOVELAND AGAINST A LINEBACKER CLAY WALKER. HE'S GOT LEVERAGE ON HIM. AND WHAT A THROW AGAIN BY CALEB WILLIAMS.
THAT'S GOOD FOR 21 LOVELAND TONIGHT HAS 118 RECEIVING YARDS. ON. PRESSURE COMING PASS THROWN AND INCOMPLETE JUST OUT OF THE REACH THAT TIME OF LOVELAND CALLED HIS NUMBER AGAIN MCKINNEY COVERING ON THE PLAY SECOND AND TEN.
HE'S ALMOST TO THE POINT NOW WHERE HE'S SAYING HEY GUYS, I'M GOING TO 84. I'M JUST LETTING YOU KNOW THE BALL IS GOING TO 84. CAN YOU STOP HIM? AND INSTEAD OF A LINEBACKER ON HIM THIS TIME IT'S XAVIER MCKINNEY THE SAFETY. THAT'S A HECK OF A MATCH-UP. GOOD AGAINST GOOD. THIS ROOKIE HAS BEEN UNBELIEVABLE. AND WHAT HE'S BEEN ABLE TO DO IN THIS OFFENSE.
HE NEEDS A BREAK AFTER THAT. HE DOES REMEMBER THEY'RE ZERO FOR THREE IN THIS RED ZONE.
SECOND AND TEN. TO THE OUTSIDE GOES THE PASS. COMING BACK THE OTHER WAY WILLIAMS WAS OUT THERE BLOCKING FOR SWIFT TAKES THE BALL TO THE FIVE YARD LINE TACKLED THERE BY WALKER. SWIFT'S NATURAL ABILITY.
HE ABORTED. INSTEAD OF TRYING TO MAKE SOMETHING HAPPEN WHERE THE PLAY WAS DESIGNED, HE IMMEDIATELY PUT HIS FOOT IN THE GROUND AND WENT BACK THE OTHER WAY TO TRY TO MAKE SOMETHING OUT OF IT, AND WITH HIS INSTINCTS AND SPEED, HE'S ABLE TO GET SOME POSITIVE YARDS. GIVE HIM A SHOT. ANYWAY, HERE ON THIS THIRD DOWN.
AND LOVELAND TAKES ONE PLAYOFF THIRD AND THREE. ON THE GROUND. SWIFT CAN HE GET INTO THE ENDZONE? HE CAN. LOVELAND BLOCK LOVELAND DID IT ALL ON THAT DRIVE. TOUCHDOWN CHICAGO! SO SOLDIER FIELD ERUPTS. IT'S A ONE POSSESSION GAME. AT SPLIT.
ZONE IS DESIGNED TO COME BACK. THEY KIND OF DESIGN IT TO GO PLAY SIDE AND BRING IT BACK. AND THEY GOT BEHIND JONAH JACKSON AND DARNELL WRIGHT PICKED UP A HECK OF A BLOCK BY THE TIGHT END. THE ROOKIE AGAIN LOVELAND AND THEY FINALLY GET INTO THE ENDZONE.
SANTOS FOR THE EXTRA POINT. AND A CAN ONLY GO IN REGULATION. VICTORY AND WOULD EVENTUALLY GO TO THE SUPER BOWL AND BEAT THE PITTSBURGH STEELERS FIVE POINT GAME. MEANWHILE, YOU GOT JOSH JACOBS IS GOING TO RUN THE KICK BACK AND JACOBS THROUGH THE MIDDLE FOR THE 48-YARD LINE. THE BALL IS OUT. THE BALL IS OUT. WHO'S GOT IT. OFFICIALS UNTANGLING CAIRO SANTOS. THE KICKER WAS THERE. MEANWHILE THEY HAVE JACOBS OF ALL PEOPLE. GO FIGURE THAT RUNNING BACK THE KICK AND IT BELONGS IT BELONGS TO OLADAPO GREEN BAY. GET ON IT, BOY.
AGAIN THE BALL IS BOUNCED THE RIGHT WAY FOR CHICAGO MOST THIS YEAR. THIS IS WHAT THEY DO. PUNCH THAT FOOTBALL OUT. THAT'S HICKS THE SAFETY WHO GETS IT OUT. AND THEN IT'S A FREE FOR ALL TO TRY TO GET ON TOP OF IT.
AND OLADAPO IS RIGHT THERE. THAT'S THE FIRST RETURN OF JACOBS CAREER. OF COURSE HE STAYS IN NOW AT RUNNING BACK OUT OF THE PISTOL BALL AT THE 46-YARD LINE. HAND IT TO HIM THROUGH THE MIDDLE HE GOES. GAIN OF A COUPLE. FLAG COMES IN.
IT'S GOING TO BE A HOLD ON WALKER THE LEFT TACKLE. HOLDING. OFFICE NUMBER 63. TEN-YARD PENALTY. FIRST DOWN.
I MEAN, FOR A TEAM TO COMPLETELY CONTROLLED THE FIRST HALF AT THE LINE OF SCRIMMAGE. IT'S BEEN SUCH A DIFFERENT STORY. BOOKER GETS OFF OF HIM BECAUSE OF THAT. HE GETS IN, IN THAT RUNNING LANE AND THAT'S WHAT FORCES WALKER TO HAVE TO GRAB ON TO HIM. BUT YEAH, THEY CONTROLLED THE LINE OF SCRIMMAGE RUNNING THE FOOTBALL, GIVING LOVE TIME. AND FROM THE WORD GO IN THE SECOND HALF A DIFFERENT STORY.
I MEAN, I'VE SEEN SOME STRIPS FLIP, BUT TO THIS EXTENT AT THE LINE OF SCRIMMAGE IT'S CRAZY. BROOKS IS THE RUNNING BACK FIRST AND 20 LOVE THROWS CAUGHT OUTSIDE DOUBS ALMOST LOST THE BALL, HOLDS ON STOPPING THE CLOCK THERE FOR THE MOMENT. EDMUNDS WITH THE TACKLE ON THE PLAY GAIN OF NINE.
I WAS WITH YOU. HOW HE PUTS THAT BALL OUT AWAY AND HE MUST NOT REMEMBER WHO HE'S PLAYING. WHEN THE BEARS SEE THE FOOTBALL THEY POUNCE ON IT. THEY ARE TAUGHT TO PUNCH THAT FOOTBALL ON EVERY SINGLE PLAY AND DOUBS JUST HELD IT AWAY FROM THE VERY LONG EDMUNDS WHO'S SIX FOUR AND HE WAS FIGHTING TO GET HIS HANDS ON THE BALL. RED MEAT SECOND.
AND 11. FIVE WIDE. LOVING THE POCKET THROWS CAUGHT ON THE RUN AND ONCE AGAIN IT'S DOUBS MAKING THE GRAB. TAKES IT TO THE 33 TACKLED THERE BY EDMUNDS.
THEY ROLLED THE DICE, BROUGHT THE LINEBACKER BLITZ. BUT AT THE TOP OF THE ROUTE HE DOES SUCH A GOOD JOB AGAINST BYARD BYARD A GREAT PLAYER, TOUGH ASK AGAINST DOUBS WITH HIS LITTLE SHAKE AND THEN HE'S ABLE TO FREEZE HIM AND GET TO THE INSIDE. LOVE FINALLY HAS TIME TO THROW. WE HAVEN'T SEEN THAT SINCE THE FIRST HALF, BUT AN EXCELLENT ROUTE BY DOUBS TO SEPARATE FROM THE SAFETY FIRES.
THEIR TOP RECEIVER TONIGHT. FIVE CATCHES. GOLDEN IS THE MAN IN MOTION. JACOBS IS THE BALLCARRIER. CANNOT GET FREE STUFF JUST ABOUT AT THE LINE OF SCRIMMAGE. SECOND DOWN BEFORE.
THIS SERIES THEY HAD FOUR SECOND HALF DRIVES. THEY HAD A TOTAL OF 29 YARDS. THEY HAD ONE FIRST DOWN. THEY HAD FOUR PUNTS. MATT LAFLEUR WAS LOOKING AT THAT CALL SHEET THINKING, MAN, WHAT CAN WE GO TO HERE? ESPECIALLY THIS IS THE LOUDEST SOLDIER FIELD HAS BEEN THE ENTIRE GAME. THE BIG RETURN, THE FUMBLE BY JACOBS. THEY'RE FORTUNATE TO GET ON IT AND THEN THAT THAT BIG PASS BY DOUBS FEELS LIKE GREEN BAY IS TRYING TO JUST SETTLE BACK DOWN AND TRY TO FIND THAT RHYTHM. THAT'S CERTAINLY.
THE LOUDEST SINCE THE PRE-GAME WARM-UPS. THE INTROS HALFWAY THROUGH THE QUARTER, SECOND DOWN AND NINE. LOVE DEEP DOWN THE RIGHT SIDELINE BROKEN UP, INCOMPLETE REED WAS THE INTENDED RECEIVER AND THAT'S WRIGHT WHO IS STILL DOWN. NAHSHON WRIGHT HAS HAD A TREMENDOUS SEASON. HE'S HAD EIGHT TAKEAWAYS THIS YEAR, FIVE PICKS, THREE FUMBLE RECOVERIES AND NEEDS A MOMENT HERE DOWN ON THE SIDELINE.
ALL HIS BODY WEIGHT. HE WENT UP IN THE AIR, PUT HIS RIGHT HAND UP TO CATCH THAT TO TRY TO KNOCK THE BALL AWAY ALL OF HIS WEIGHT. HE DIDN'T HAVE A CHANCE TO GET HIS HAND DOWN TO PROTECT HIMSELF. HE'S IN PHASE THERE, EYES ON THE BALL NOW WATCH HIM COME DOWN. BOOM. RIGHT THERE. WITH REED HANGING ONTO HIS SHIRT.
AND IT REALLY LOOKED LIKE REED COULD HAVE BEEN CALLED FOR OPI. THEY'RE JUST TRYING TO KEEP RIGHT AWAY FROM THE BALL. SO WRIGHT COMES OUT FOR.
AT LEAST ONE PLAY, GOT TYRIQUE STEVENSON COMING IN AT LEAST FOR THE MOMENT. BIG THIRD AND NINE FROM THE 32-YARD LINE. PACKERS ALL FOR FOUR THIS HALF ON THIRD DOWN. THAT PASS IS CAUGHT AND ENOUGH FOR WE'LL TAKE A LOOK. WHERE ARE THEY GOING TO SPOT IT OFFICIAL COMING IN ROMEO DOUBS AND HE HAS HE'S RIGHT ON THE LINE. ADRIAN HILL LOOKING AT IT AND A FIRST DOWN BUT THEN AGAIN LOOK WHERE THEY SPOTTED HERE. YEAH .
DOUBS KNEW WHERE HE HAD TO GO. REAL VERY, VERY CLOSE. TRYING TO STRETCH OUT TO GET THAT FIRST DOWN THERE. IT LOOKS LIKE HE GOT IT PRETTY EASILY. THAT'S A FIRST DOWN RIGHT. BEARS THAT TIME PLAYED ZONE HE FOUND THE SOFT SPOT FROM.
THE 23 PASS TO THE OUTSIDE FINDING ROOM HERE GOLDEN GOLDEN IS INSIDE THE TEN AND GOLDEN WILL GO INTO THE ENDZONE FOR THE TOUCHDOWN. SO MATTHEW GOLDEN THEIR NUMBER ONE PICK WHO DID NOT HAVE A SINGLE TOUCHDOWN DURING THE REGULAR SEASON, PICKS AN OPPORTUNE TIME FOR NUMBER ONE.
YOU BROUGHT HIM UP ON OUR CONFERENCE CALL WITH MATT LAFLEUR SAYING IS THIS A GAME MAYBE WITH A ROOKIE FINALLY GETS A CHANCE AND HERE IT IS. TOOK HIM TO COME OUT OF THE BACKFIELD WITH MOTION. NOBODY RESPONDS. THEY BLITZ FROM THE INTERIOR. SEE THE SLOT THERE? GORDON BLITZES. BUT HOW ABOUT GOLDEN'S EFFORT? GOOD BLOCKS. GOOD JOB BY WATSON BUT THAT IS A HECK OF AN INDIVIDUAL EFFORT BY THE ROOKIE TO GET HIS FIRST PROFESSIONAL TOUCHDOWN.
BRANDON MCMANUS WITH THE EXTRA POINT. AND THAT KICK IS NO GOOD. SO SILL. A TWO POSSESSION GAME THOUGH IT'S AN 11 POINT DIFFERENCE 27 TO 16 AS GOLDEN GETS TO THE ENDZONE WITH. LOVE THAT SIZE.
OH MAN. THERE IT IS. LAFLEUR RHYAN GOLDEN MAN. CONGRATS! WAY TO GO BABY! KICK IS TAKEN AT THE SIX YARD LINE TO THE OUTSIDE. BLACKWELL. STOPPED UP AT THE 25 630 TO GO.
SO LET'S NOT SLEEP ON THAT MOMENT. WHAT? GREEN BAY JUST ACCOMPLISHED THIS MOMENTUM FAVORING THE BEARS. THEY'RE SCORING. THEY'RE GETTING BACK IN IT. GOT IT. WITHIN FIVE THEY'RE THINKING LET'S GET THE BALL BACK. MAYBE HAVE A SHOT TO TAKE THE LEAD. BIG RETURN BY JACOBS AND THEN JORDAN LOVE LEADS HIM INTO THE ENDZONE FOR A TOUCHDOWN. NOW IT'S CALEB WILLIAMS 630. IT'S TWO POSSESSIONS RIGHT. YOU'RE DOWN 11. YOU'VE GOT TO HAVE URGENCY TO MOVE THIS BALL DOWNFIELD AND GET POINTS ON THE BOARD, WHETHER FIELD GOAL OR TOUCHDOWN. BEFORE THE TWO MINUTE WARNING.
SO THAT GRAPHICS ONLY SIX POINTS AND THE GAMES IN THIS TRILOGY BUT A WHOLE DIFFERENT STORY IN THE SECOND HALF. THAT'S THE CASE TONIGHT. MEANWHILE THAT PASS UP AT THE 40-YARD LINE INTENDED THERE FOR ROME ODUNZE IS HAULED IN IT'S FIRST DOWN, A GAIN OF 17.
HE'S ON TOP. HE'S GOT EVERYBODY LINED UP READY TO GO . GOING FAST TO THE OUTSIDE GOES THIS PASS DOWN THE SIDELINE. CAN'T STAY INBOUNDS THAT LONG. THAT'S LOVELAND MAKING THAT GRAB. SO LOVELAND HAS BEEN THE MAIN GUY TONIGHT. TOTAL OF SEVEN CATCHES. NOW THE.
CLOCK'S RUNNING. YEAH, HE'S AGAIN CALEB'S GOT TO BE ABLE TO KIND OF YOU WANT TO BE OUT OF CONTROL WITH THE TEMPO. BUT YOU DEFINITELY WANT TO BE MOVING HERE BECAUSE AGAIN IT'S ABOUT THE NEXT POSSESSION. IT'S NOT ABOUT THIS POSSESSION. CLOCK RUNNING OUT OF BOUNDS OUTSIDE OF THE FIVE MINUTE MARK. AND IT STOPS ON AN OUT OF BOUNDS PLAY. WILLIAMS THROWS LOW INCOMPLETE THIRD DOWN AND THREE INTENDED FOR MONANGAI. ONE OF THE FEW TIMES TONIGHT WE'VE SEEN HIM WHEN HE HAD PLENTY OF TIME WITH HIS FEET, HIS EYES NOT REALLY ALIGNED.
NOT REALLY COMFORTABLE. THEY'RE TRYING TO LOOK DOWNFIELD AT THE LAST MINUTE INSTEAD OF THROWING IT AND PULLING THE TRIGGER DOWNFIELD, HE DECIDED TO CHECK IT DOWN. WAS JUST KIND OF OUT OF PHASE, OUT OF RHYTHM THERE WITH HIS THROWING MOTION. THIRD AND 3 OR 4 DOWN TERRITORY. AT THIS POINT IN THE GAME. 541 LEFT ON THIRD DOWN AND THREE NOW. IN MOTION WILLIAMS FIRES AND THAT'S INTO TRAFFIC AND INCOMPLETE. TRY TO GET IT INTO OLAMIDE ZACCHEAUS. SO FOURTH AND THREE.
WELL HE IS CALEB WILLIAMS IN THIS OFFENSE HAS UNTIL THIS DRIVE. THEY HAVE REALLY BEEN PERFORMING AT A LEVEL THAT YOU'VE SEEN A LOT FROM HIM ESPECIALLY IN FOURTH QUARTERS THIS YEAR. BUT THIS DRIVE TO START OUT DEFINITELY DOES NOT LOOK TO BE AS COMFORTABLE AS HE HAD LEADING INTO THIS POSSESSION. THIS IS IT RIGHT HERE.
ONE FOR FIVE ON FOURTH DOWN LEAD THREE. AND A WHISTLE BEFORE THE ERRANT SNAP FOR A FALSE START.
I THINK HE MAY HAVE MOVED THE FOOTBALL. BEFORE THE SNAP. FALSE START OFFENSE NUMBER 52 FIVE-YARD PENALTY. REMAINS FOURTH DOWN.
SO THE CENTER DREW DALMAN WHO WAS NAMED TO THE PRO BOWL. HE MAY HAVE CAUGHT A BREAK HERE BECAUSE HE WAS TRYING TO HOLD HIS BALANCE. THE BALL DOESN'T MOVE, HE LOSES IT AND THEN WATCH THE SNAP. BY THE WAY UP AND OVER CALEB WILLIAMS HEAD. HE WAS SO FOCUSED ON TRYING TO KEEP HIS BALANCE THAT THE SNAP GOES OVER THE HEAD. THAT WOULD HAVE BEEN THE GAME.
ONLY THE SECOND PENALTY AGAINST THE BEARS TONIGHT. SO IT'S FOURTH DOWN AND EIGHT. HAVE TO GET TO THE GREEN BAY. 49 WILLIAMS CHASED THROWS AND IT'S CAUGHT AT THE 30-YARD LINE. ROME ODUNZE ON A FOURTH AND EIGHT KEEPS IT GOING.
I MEAN ARE YOU KIDDING ME? THIS IS WHY WHEN CALEB WILLIAMS WAS COMING OUT OF USC IT WAS PLAYS LIKE THIS THAT MADE EVERYBODY GO, THIS GUY IS JUST ONE OF ONE AS FAR AS HIS ABILITIES. THINK ABOUT WHAT'S AT STAKE. IT'S FOURTH DOWN GAME IS OVER AND HE THROWS IT UP AND OVER THE DEFENDER RIGHT INTO THE HANDS OF ODUNZE.
MCDUFFIE PUT THE HEAT ON THAT TIME ALMOST CAUGHT HIM. HE THROWS AND THAT'S INCOMPLETE. HE HAD ODUNZE WHO HAD SPACE ALONG THE SIDELINE. YOU CAN SEE THE FRUSTRATION WITH HIM MCKINNEY COVERING ON THE PLAY. IT'S SECOND DOWN. AND LET'S.
GO BACK TO THAT PREVIOUS PLAY ON, ON FOURTH DOWN. ODUNZE BY THE WAY, CAME ALL THE WAY FROM THE RIGHT SIDE. HE HAD A LINE FROM THE RIGHT SIDE CAME ALL THE WAY OVER SORRELL HIS QUARTERBACK SCRAMBLING GAVE HIM THAT THE HAND TO SAY, HEY, I'M GOING OVER HERE. THE TWO HAVE THAT CHEMISTRY AND THEY CONNECT ON THAT BIG PLAY, KEEPS THEIR HOPES ALIVE.
SECOND AND TEN. MARTIN. AMAZON. FLUSHED OUT. LOOK OUT AND JUST HAS TO FLING THAT ONE AWAY TO AVOID WHAT WOULD HAVE BEEN A SACK THAT TIME. IT'S COLBY WOODEN FOR SOMETHING YOU MENTIONED HIS NAME. PUT THE HEAT ON THIRD DOWN.
IT WAS REALLY THE PUSH FROM THE INTERIOR THAT MADE CALEB WILLIAMS GET UNCOMFORTABLE AND WANT TO GET OUT OF THERE. I THOUGHT HE MIGHT HAVE A CHANCE AT THE POCKET HELD STURDY AND UP FRONT IN THE MIDDLE. HE COULD HAVE STEPPED UP INTO IT INSTEAD OF BACKWARDS, BUT THE PUSH UP FRONT FORCED HIM OUT OF THERE. THIRD AND TEN.
IF YOU DON'T GAIN A YARD, HERE YOU GO. YOU'RE GOING TO NEED A FIELD GOAL AT SOME POINT. YEAH, YOU COULD GO FOR THE FIELD.
GOAL IF YOU DON'T GET IT. THIRD AND TEN WILLIAMS DANCING, THROWING CAUGHT AND ESCAPING. GETTING INSIDE THE TEN YARD LINE TO SET UP A FIRST DOWN AND GOAL. KYLE MONANGAI.
NOW HE GETS HIT AGAIN AS HE THROW THIS FOOTBALL. THIS TIME IT'S BRENTON COX ON THE LEFT-HAND SIDE WORKING AGAINST THE ROOKIE. BUT LOOK AT HIS EYES, SEES THE CHECKDOWN BELIEVES IN HIS RUNNING BACK TO BE ABLE TO GET THE YARDS AFTER THE CATCH AND THEY GET IT.
A LITTLE JUMP PASS THERE FROM THE EIGHT YARD LINE. NOW WILLIAMS PUMPS THROWS AND THAT'S INCOMPLETE. YOU GOT WALKERS ALL OVER THE PLACE TONIGHT COVERING ON THE PLAY. SECOND DOWN AND GOAL. THAT WAS A THIRD AND TEN. HE CONVERTS ON THAT FOURTH DOWN. YOU KNOW THIS IS WHAT HE CAN DO. YOU KNOW YOU LOVE TO SEE HIM PLAY WITH STRUCTURE. BUT THIS IS THE KIND OF THE SECRET SAUCE THAT MAKES HIM SO ELITE. SEE HE IS FATIGUED WITH ALL HIS PLAYMAKING HE'S DOING ON HIS DRIVE.
HE WAS LAST IN THE LEAGUE IN COMPLETION PERCENTAGE AT 58%. KIND OF THE SAME THING TONIGHT. HE'S 20 OF 42 UNDER 50% FOR 293. SECOND AND GOAL.
JEFFERSON. IN THE POCKET FIRES CAUGHT TOUCHDOWN OLAMIDE ZACCHEAUS INTO THE ENDZONE. THEY'RE GOING TO GO HEAVY. GOING TO THE JUMBO PACKAGE. BUT WHAT A DRIVE WHAT AN ANSWER AND WHAT A GOOD JOB BY CALEB WILLIAMS SHOWING HIS POISE THERE MAKING PLAY AFTER PLAY TO KEEP THE BEARS HOPES ALIVE. AND GO FOR TWO HERE TO TRY TO MAKE IT A THREE POINT GAME. YEP. KEEP THE OFFENSE OUT THERE TWO POINT TRY TO MAKE IT A FIELD GOAL DIFFERENCE FOR 18. LEFT AND RIG.
NUMBER 79. THAT'S 79. DIDN'T CATCH A PASS EARLIER. BENEDET. FROM THE TWO LOOKING FOR TWO. WILLIAMS BACKING UP.
COMES UP. HAS TIME THROWS CAUGHT TWO POINTS. WHO ELSE COLSTON LOVELAND. THEY HAD A LOT OF SUCCESS ON THAT DRIVE BESIDES SOME OF THE BIG THROWS DOWNFIELD. HE CHIEFS CRATER OUT. YEP. HE HAD A LOT OF SUCCESS UNDERNEATH, EITHER CHECKING IT DOWN OR FINDING A TIGHT END OR RECEIVER. ZACCHEAUS HIS TIME FROM THE RIGHT JUST WORKS UNDERNEATH. TRYING TO WORK IN SPACE AGAINST THE LINEBACKERS. CALEB PUTS IT OUT IN FRONT. EASY JOB OF BEING ABLE TO PULL AWAY FROM QUAY WALKER AND THEN THE BACK SHOULDER TO LOVELAND FOR THE TWO POINTER TO GET HIM WITHIN THREE. AND THE MOST IMPORTANT THING NOW THEY'RE ABLE TO DO THIS WITHOUT USING ANY OF THEIR TIMEOUTS. AND BEFORE THE TWO MINUTE WARNING, DO YOU.
FEEL THE SHAKING A LITTLE BIT? I DO, I'VE DONE 31 GAMES IN THIS STADIUM. IT'S THE FIRST TIME I FEEL IT SHAKING LIKE THIS. I'M HONORED THAT I'M HERE, RIGHT?
I'M HERE TO WATCH. I MEAN, I COVERED AN EARTHQUAKE. IN SAN FRANCISCO, BUT THIS HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH AN EARTHQUAKE. WOW, THIS IS GREAT, MAN. WHAT A GAME.
PANTHERS RAMS GAVE US A GREAT GAME. AND NOW WHO WOULD HAVE THOUGHT AFTER THAT FIRST HALF RIGHT HERE. LOOK AT THAT INTENSITY FROM CALEB WILLIAMS DOWN THREE FOR 18 TO GO.
MEANWHILE YOU GOT JACOBS WHO HAD HIS FIRST EVER RUNBACK PRETTY GOOD ONE. BUT THEN HE FUMBLED. THEY'RE GOING TO PUT HIM OUT THERE AGAIN AS WELL. KEISEAN NIXON IS ALSO BACK THERE. WELL THEY'RE GOING TO TRY JACOBS NUMBER AGAIN THAT PAST THE 25 AND HE WILL BE TACKLED AT THE 3412 LEFT IN REGULATION. FOR THE POST PLAY ACTION RIGHT HERE. YOU AND I TALKED ABOUT THIS THROUGHOUT THE BROADCAST. THIS CHICAGO BEARS TEAM IF SIX WINS WHEN TRAILING WITH LESS THAN TWO MINUTES REMAINING. SO THERE'S A BELIEF IN THIS TEAM THAT THEY CAN ALWAYS FIND A WAY AND THEY'VE GIVEN THEIR CROWD ANOTHER REASON TO THINK THAT THIS COULD BE THAT TIME AGAIN.
WHAT A SCENE. RUNNING BACK IS EMMANUEL WILSON. EACH TEAM WITH ALL OF ITS TIMEOUTS AS WE HEAD DOWN THE STRETCH TO THE OUTSIDE GOES THE PASS TACKLE MADE SHORT GAIN. JAYDEN REED STOPPED THERE BY KYLER GORDON SECOND AND EIGHT. INCREDIBLE TO SEE HOW QUICK.
THEY'RE DRIVING DOWN ON THE FOOTBALL AGAIN. IT'S LIKE A DIFFERENT DEFENSE FROM THE FIRST HALF TO THE SECOND HALF. NO HESITATION, NO SPACE, NOWHERE TO GO FOR THOSE GREEN BAY RECEIVERS AFTER THE CATCH.
JACOBS COMES BACK INTO THE GAME. SECOND AND EIGHT. EXTRA PRESSURE PASS THROUGH. DOUBS MAKES A TREMENDOUS CATCH. DOUBS. OUT OF BOUNDS AFTER HE MADE THE GRAB AT THE 33-YARD LINE SLOT FADE MAN-TO-MAN SAFETY.
IN THE MIDDLE OF THE FIELD. HE'S GOT HIM ON AN ISLAND. GORDON WHO'S WORKING HIS WAY BACK FROM INJURY MOST OF THIS YEAR, IS ISOLATED ONE ON ONE AND HE DID NOT HESITATE. KEPT HIS EYES ON BYARD TO KEEP HIM AWAY. AND WHAT A GREAT CATCH THERE BY DOUBS TO BRING THAT ONE DOWN FOR THE PACKERS.
GAIN OF 34. CLOCK STOPPED AT 320. GIVE IT TO JACOBS HE GOES NOWHERE JARRETT BRISKER UP THERE TO MAKE THAT STOP. SECOND DOWN YOU SEE THE CLOCK THERE? WELL, YOU GOT TO STOP. STOP CLOCK CHICAGO CHICAGO MAKES IT MAKES IT FIRST. THIS WILL BE. A THIRTY-SECOND TIME-OUT. PLEASE RESET THE GAME CLOCK TO 316 FOR DENNIS ALLEN.
FORMER HEAD COACH OF THE SAINTS WHO COMES TO CHICAGO. HAD OPPORTUNITIES ELSEWHERE, LOOKED AROUND, DECIDED THAT CHICAGO WITH BEN JOHNSON COMING IN AS A HEAD COACH AND PLAY CALLER AND CALEB WILLIAMS. THIS IS A GOOD SPOT TO BE AS A CO-ORDINATOR AND DOESN'T HAVE MAYBE THE MOST TALENTED DEFENSE IN THE LEAGUE, BUT THEY'VE BEEN THE MOST OFTEN OPPORTUNISTIC DEFENSE IN THIS LEAGUE AND THEY HAVE DONE A HECK OF A JOB TO GIVE THEMSELVES A CHANCE TO GIVE CALEB WILLIAMS AND HIS OFFENSE TO GET THEM BACK INTO THE GAME.
SECOND AND TEN. LOVE OUTSIDE HOLD IN. HE GOT GOLDEN WHO SCORED THE TOUCHDOWN, MAKES THE GRAB MOVES THE STICKS. GORDON MAKES THE TACKLE OUT OF BOUNDS. FIRST DOWN.
WATCHING THE LINE OF SCRIMMAGE. HE TURNS GORDON AROUND. THEY'RE GOING AFTER SIX RIGHT NOW. HE'S A TALENTED PLAYER. HE'S JUST BEEN INJURED. HE'S NOT 100%. HE'S TRYING TO GO OUT THERE AND PLAY AS BEST AS HE CAN. BUT WE JUST SAW DOUBS MAKE A PLAY ON HIM. NOW THE ROOKIE GOLDEN MAKES A PLAY ON HIM, TURNS HIM AROUND AND A GOOD JOB OF SEEING THAT BY THE QUARTERBACK. LOVE FOR THE FIRST DOWN.
GOLDEN WITH THE GOLDEN SHOES TAKES IT TO THE 21 311 ON THE CLOCK ON THE GROUND AGAIN. JACOBS DONE A GOOD JOB TONIGHT STUFFING HIM 19 CARRIES 55 YARDS.
GOT TO SAY WHAT A JOB BY BY JORDAN LOVE. WE'VE BEEN TALKING ABOUT SO MANY OTHER PLAYERS AND OTHER ASPECTS OF THIS GAME. HE STARTED FAST AND THEN THINGS GOT A LITTLE BIT CRAZY. BEARS CAME ALL THE WAY BACK, BUT WHAT REALLY STANDS OUT TO ME IN HIS THIRD YEAR AS A STARTER IS THIS IS NO LONGER OH YEAH, HE'S THE GUY THAT'S REPLACING A HALL OF FAMER AND AARON RODGERS. THIS HAS BECOME HIS TEAM OVER THESE LAST THREE YEARS. THIS TEAM HAS REALLY GROWN AROUND HIM AND HE'S PLAYING RIGHT NOW WITH SUCH POISE. WHEN THE GAME IS AT THE BIGGEST PRESSURE POINT OF THE GAME, THIS GUY IS JUST SITTING BACK THERE MAKING GOOD DECISIONS, THROWING ACCURATE THROWS.
THROWING FOR 274 TONIGHT CHICAGO TOOK ANOTHER TIME OUT. THEY'RE DOWN TO ONE. WILSON IN THE BACKFIELD. PLAY CLOCK AT TWO. SECOND DOWN AND TEN OFF HIS BACK FOOT THROWING THAT ACTION AND CONTACT IN THE ENDZONE. INTENDED THERE FOR LUKE MUSGRAVE AND INCOMPLETE.
NOW THEY PUT LUKE MUSGRAVE OUT WAY OUT TO THE OUTSIDE AND THEY SAW MAN-TO-MAN. TREMAINE EDMUNDS IS JUST OK. YOU'RE GOING TO WALK HIM, YOU'RE GOING TO WALK YOUR LINEBACKER. WE KNOW YOU'RE A MAN-TO-MAN. WE THINK MUSGRAVE CAN BEAT EDMUNDS. HE GETS BEHIND HIM. EDMUNDS NEVER REALLY LOCATES THE BALL, BUT THE BALL IS UNDERTHROWN AND THAT'S WHY MUSGRAVE TRIED TO WORK BACK TO IT. BUT NO CALL ON THE FIELD.
THIRD DOWN, TEN. AND LAFLEUR IS GOING TO CALL A TIME-OUT. TIME-OUT? GREEN THING THEY'LL BE HOME, RIGHT? THE NEXT GAME WILL BE AT SOLDIER FIELD. YEP.
WELL HERE WE GO. THIRD AND TEN 302 BEARS THINKING HERE'S AN OPPORTUNITY TO TRY TO GET A STOP ON THIRD DOWN TO FORCE THE FIELD GOAL AND MAKE IT A SIX POINT GAME. GET THE BALL BACK TO CALEB WILLIAMS AND LOVE LOOKING FOR A HUGE CONVERSION.
JELLY JELLY JELLY JELLY. WAIT TWO SECONDS ON THE CLOCK ONE. JUST MAYBE NOT. THAT'S A DELAY. MAYBE NOT. YEP. SOMETIMES THEY GIVE YOU THAT LITTLE EXTRA BEAT, BUT THIS TIME. NO SIR. NO PLAY DELAY OF GAME OFFENSE.
FIVE-YARD PENALTY REMAINS THIRD DOWN. CHALK THAT UP TO THE CROWD. YEAH, I JUST GOT DONE BRAGGING ON LOVE AND HIS BOYS. AND YOU'RE RIGHT. THIS PLACE IS. YOU MENTIONED IT. YOU'VE BEEN HERE FOR 31. HOW MANY YEARS? YOU SAY 31.
31 GAMES? YEAH, 31 GAMES. AND IT IS AS. LOUD AS YOU'VE EVER HEARD IT. NO QUESTION. THAT SAYS IT ALL. LOVE LOSING TRACK THERE. THE PLAY CLOCK PUSHES IT BACK. FIVE MORE BROOKS.
IS IN THE BACKFIELD. THAT MAKES IT THIRD AND 15. UNDER PRESSURE THROWING FOR DOUBS WITH OUT OF BOUNDS. COULDN'T STAY IN JAYLON JOHNSON COVERING FOURTH AND 15. WOW. DENNIS ALLEN ROLLED.
THE DICE THERE. HE SHOWED TOO HIGH TWO SAFETY LOOK AND IT'S A SNAP OF THE BALL. HE GOES TO A ONE HIGH LOOK PLAYED MAN-TO-MAN COVERAGE MAN FREE WITH A SAFETY IN THE MIDDLE. TRUSTED JALEN JOHNSON IN HIS CORNERS TO HOLD UP ON ISLANDS. AND THEY DO.
SO A 44 YARD FIELD GOAL ATTEMPT NOW FOR MCMANUS. LONG TIME WITH THE BRONCOS. SECOND YEAR NOW WITH THE GREEN BAY PACKERS TO TRY TO MAKE IT SIX UP AND THE KICK IS. NO GOOD. SO IT STAYS A THREE POINT GAME. AND THE BEARS ARE GOING TO GET THE BALL AT ABOUT THEIR OWN 34.
YOU WONDER HOW MUCH THAT FIVE YARD PENALTY DELAY THE GAME PUSHED HIM BACK FIVE YARDS MAYBE IMPACTS THIS KICK TO PUT HIM UP BY SIX. THAT THING WAS LEANING RIGHT THE WHOLE WAY. BUT BEEF OOH. WHAT A TRILOGY. THE THREE GAMES IN FIVE WEEKS. HERE WE GO AGAIN. MISSING FROM 55 NOW FROM 44 BALL TO 34-YARD LINE. DOWN BY THREE ONE TIME-OUT FOR CHICAGO PLUS THE TWO MINUTE WARNING. TON OF TIME. WILLIAMS PRESSURE LOOKS THROWS DOWN THE SIDELINE INCOMPLETE OUT OF BOUNDS THAT TIME LOVELAND COULDN'T STAY IN BROOKS PUT THE HEAT ON SECOND AND TEN.
CALEB WILLIAMS COMING OFF OF THAT PLAY FAKE I THINK HE WAS LOOKING TO ROLL RIGHT? MAYBE THROW IT BACK TO SWIFT OFF TO THAT FAKE. BUT PACKERS TOOK THAT AWAY. SO HE'S FORTUNATE TO JUST GET RID OF THAT FOOTBALL. SEE WHAT HE'S DONE IN HIS SECOND SEASON. THE FIVE SCORES IN SEVEN CHANCES WHEN TRAILING BY 1 TO 3 POINTS. HE'S BEEN MONEY IN THE FOURTH QUARTER IN A GAME ON THE LINE. BROWNS WYATT THE QUIETS DOWN NOW MEN AT WORK.
WILLIAMS THROWS CAUGHT. IT'LL BE ANOTHER FIRST DOWN OUT TO THE 46. THAT'S LOVELAND ONCE AGAIN LOVELAND NOW EIGHT CATCHES 137 YARDS FOR THE TIGHT END.
WHAT A JOB BY CALEB WILLIAMS FELT THAT BLITZ FROM THE INSIDE BY QUAY WALKER HAD LOVELAND RIGHT WHERE HE WANTED HIM IN SPACE AGAINST THAT ZONE. PRESSURE LOOK FOR FIRST DOWN YARDAGE.
313 YARDS FOR WILLIAMS, MOST BY ANY BEARS SCORED BACK IN THE POST-SEASON GAME EVER DONE. NOW GREEN BAY ALCOHOL ANOTHER TIME-OUT. THERE'S SOME. CONFUSION. GUYS RUNNING IN, GUYS RUNNING OFF, MATT LAFLEUR SAID. TO HECK WITH IT. LET'S CALL THIS TIME OUT. TIME OUT.
THAT'S THEIR SECOND. EACH TEAM NOW WITH ONE OVER SEVEN SECONDS AWAY FROM THE TWO MINUTE WARNING. THANK YOU. CORRECTION GREEN BAY HADDEN THEY'RE.
LOOKING AT TRYING TO GET TO ABOUT THE 37-YARD LINE TO GIVE SANTOS A CHANCE TO IT COMES DOWN. THEY NEED ABOUT 1920 YARDS TO GIVE HIM A SHOT. CAREER LONG IS 55 YARDS BUT NO ONE BEN JOHNSON WHY SETTLE FOR A TIE WHEN YOU COULD HAVE THE FOOTBALL AND THE WAY HIS QUARTERBACK'S PLAYING? WHY NOT TRY TO END IT IN REGULATION? RIGHT. GO FOR IT. YEAH.
WELL HE ENDED IT IN OVERTIME WITH A TOUCHDOWN. YEAH. LAST TIME THEY MET. DJ MOORE WINDS UP OFFSET IN THE BACKFIELD. HE GAVE THE BALL HERE TO SWIFT. HE TAKES IT INTO GREEN BAY TERRITORY. IT WILL BE SECOND DOWN AND FIVE AS WE HAVE COME UPON THE TWO MINUTE WARNING AT SOLDIER FIELD AND A WILD ONE AND FOUR BEARS AT THE GREEN BAY 48-YARD LINE IN A THREE POINT GAME. WILLIAMS MOVING KMET AROUND.
JOHNSON. KMET IN MOTION. CALEB ESCAPES PRESSURE, THROWS ON THE RUN AND IT'S OFF THE HANDS OF DJ MOORE. LENNON COULDN'T HANDLE IT. THIRD AND FOUR. NOW YOU GOT THE LEFT TACKLE. TRAPILO YEAH. HE HOBBLED OFF THE FIELD. OH YEAH. AND THEO BENEDET COMES IN TO TAKE HIS PLACE.
I WAS JUST GOING TO SAY DJ MOORE DID THE HARD JOB. IT WAS MAN-TO-MAN COVERAGE, YOU SEE 24 VALENTINE ON HIM. HE LOOKED BACK AND HE SEES CALEB WAS STARTING TO ESCAPE TO HIS RIGHT. HE SEPARATES IN POSITION, BALL JUST OFF OF HIS FINGERTIPS. SO NOW YOU GOT A GUY WHO HADN'T PLAYED ALL ALL GAME AT LEFT TACKLE EXCEPT. AS A RECEIVER. THAT PASS IS CAUGHT. THAT'S A FIRST DOWN AND A LOT MORE DOWN THE SIDELINE BEFORE HE STEPS OUT OF BOUNDS. D'ANDRE SWIFT WITH ONE 4823 YARDS FROM THE GREEN BAY 25-YARD LINE. AND THAT'S A. BUST IN COVERAGE. ENAGBARE IS A BIG DEFENSIVE END. HE'S TRYING TO DROP OUT BUT NOBODY OUT IN THE FLAT AT ALL. SWIFT HAS WIDE RECEIVER SKILL SET. EASY FIRST DOWN CONVERSION AND GREEN BAY JUST DIDN'T HAVE ANYBODY OUT THERE THAT TIME TO BE ABLE TO DEFEND. SWIFT CHICAGO.
CAN USE THE CLOCK AS WELL. HE AUTOMATICALLY RIGHT NOW THEY'RE IN FIELD GOAL RANGE. THEY WANT TO GET SEVEN. THEY CAN USE THE CLOCK WILLIAMS THROWING AND IT'S CAUGHT FOR THE TOUCHDOWN BY DJ MOORE. FORGET ABOUT THE CLOCK. JUST TAKE THE LEAD WHEN YOU CAN. 25 YARDS SIX PLAYS 66 YARDS IN 68 SECONDS. AND NOW THE EXTRA POINT COULD MAKE GREEN BAY HAVE TO GET A TOUCHDOWN. FIELD GOAL WILL DO THEM NO GOOD TO MAKE IT 3127 HERE CAIRO SANTOS IN FOR THE POINT AFTER. BEARS BY FOUR. NOW YOU'RE GOING TO LOVE THIS DESIGN BY BEN JOHNSON. YOU PUT THE BIG TIGHT END LOVELAND OUT TO THE OUTSIDE. YOU COULD TWO THREE RECEIVERS. THEY LOOKED LIKE THEY'RE GOING TO JUST THROW A QUICK SCREEN TO LUTHER BURDEN WATCH CALEB WILLIAMS PUMP IT AND THEN RELEASE DJ MOORE DOWN THAT LEFT SIDELINE SO YOU PUT MOORE AND LOVELAND OUT IN FRONT. THE DEFENSE, WATCH THEM REACT IF THEY THINK THE BALL IS GOING TO BE THROWN, THE BURDEN THEY COMPLETELY LOSE
DJ MOORE BEHIND HIM BECAUSE THEIR EYES WERE ON THAT QUICK SCREEN. GOOD JOB OF KIND OF SHOWING IT. FLASHING IT BY CALEB AND THERE'S NOBODY DOWNFIELD ONCE THEY BID ON IT. EASY THROW FOR MOORE ONCE AGAIN AGAINST THE PACKERS FOR THE TOUCHDOWN.
AND A TALE OF TWO CITIES AND A TALE OF TWO HALVES. WHO COULD HAVE FIGURED THIS AT HALF-TIME? AND THIS GAME'S A LONG WAY FROM BEING OVER. BUT DO.
YOU REMEMBER THAT FOURTH DOWN CONVERSION TO CALEB WILLIAMS HIT THIS YOUNG MAN? HE IS BASICALLY SAVED THIS TEAM TO GIVE THEM THIS CHANCE. EIGHT OF 15 141 YARDS AND TWO TOUCHDOWNS PLUS THE TWO POINT CONVERSION IN THE LAST TWO DRIVES.
BEARS HAVE A RACE THAT 18 POINT DEFICIT. JACOBS AND NIXON ARE BACK THERE. THIS IS NIXON FROM THE FIVE KEISEAN NIXON TO THE OUTSIDE. STOPPED AT THE 28-YARD LINE WITH 136. NOW AS SOON AS YOU.
SAID HEY, YOU DON'T NEED TO BE IN MUCH OF A HURRY. BANG! TOUCHDOWN! I WAS THINKING THE SAME THING. THIS GUY WITH A MINUTE 36 AND A TIME-OUT, THAT'S AN ETERNITY FOR JORDAN LOVE. NOW WILL THEY PROTECT HIM? IS GOING TO BE THE QUESTION.
START FROM THE 28-YARD LINE. LOVE 19 OF 35. FOUR TOUCHDOWN PASSES TONIGHT 274 THROUGH THE AIR. HERE THEY GO FROM THE 28. FOUR MAN RUSH. LOVE UNDER PRESSURE. JACOBS MAKES THE CATCH. JACOBS FIGHTING FOR EXTRA YARDAGE UP TO THE 30. TACKLED THERE BY DEXTER SECOND DOWN. LOVE WAS FORCED.
GOOD COVERAGE DOWNFIELD. HE'S FORCED TO CHECK THAT FOOTBALL DOWN. HE'S GOT TO CRANK UP HIS URGENCY. HE'S TRYING TO HOLD ON TO THAT LAST TIME OUT. LET IT GO 69 YARDS FROM HERE.
THROW AND IT'S INCOMPLETE. COVERAGE IS VERY TIGHT. GORDON COVERING JAYDEN REED THIRD DOWN.
NOW THEY'VE BEEN GOING AFTER KYLER GORDON THAT TIME HE WAS IN MUCH BETTER POSITION AND ALMOST CAME AWAY WITH A GAME SEALING INTERCEPTION. HECK OF A JOB OF RESPONDING BY SIX. 68 SECONDS. SWIFT PUSHING THE FACE OF WILLIAMS ON THE SIDELINE. STILL A LOT OF TIME. THIRD AND SEVEN. OBVIOUSLY A FORD DOWN SITUATION. THROWS DROPPED FOURTH DOWN DOUBS COULDN'T HANDLE IT. LAST DEATH NOW FOR THE GREEN BAY PACKERS. AND LET'S SEE WHAT DENNIS ALLEN HE HAS.
DONE A SUCH A GOOD JOB OF MIXING ZONE AND MAN-TO-MAN BLITZ RUSHING FORWARD KEEPING THE GREEN BAY PACKERS OFFENSIVE LINE OFF GUARD. WHAT WILL HE DO HERE ON THIS CRITICAL FOURTH DOWN PLAY? GOLDEN AND DOUBS BOTH WIDE TO THE RIGHT. WATSON WIDE TO THE LEFT. GOLDEN GOES IN MOTION, NEEDS SEVEN TO KEEP IT ALIVE. GOING DEEP DOWN THE SIDELINE. AND THAT IS HAULED IN BY MATTHEW GOLDEN TO KEEP THE DRIVE ALIVE AND THEIR HOPES ALIVE. WOW.
THEY MOVE GOLDEN FROM THE RIGHT ALL THE WAY OVER TO THE LEFT. NOW HE'S GOT THE MATCH-UP AGAINST GORDON. SEE GORDON WHO'S BEEN AILING NOT AT 100%. LOOK AT THAT CUSHION. IT'S EXACTLY WHAT JORDAN LOVE SAW WHEN HE MOVED HIM IN MOTION. CREATED THAT FREE RELEASE. HE KNEW EXACTLY WHERE TO GO WITH THAT FOOTBALL AND HITS THAT FOURTH DOWN THROW. 60S.
TO THE OUTSIDE, THAT'S CAUGHT OUT OF BOUNDS. THAT ONLY TOOK FIVE SECONDS TO GO. JOSH WHYLE RIGHT THERE. SECOND DOWN.
NOW I CAN'T HELP BUT THINK ABOUT THAT EXTRA OR THAT FIELD OR THE EXTRA POINT THAT THEY MISSED. IF THEY HIT THAT EXTRA POINT, IT'S A THREE POINT GAME. THEY'RE WORKING FOR A FIELD GOAL RIGHT NOW TO TIE IT UP. AND INSTEAD BECAUSE OF THAT THEY GOT TO SCORE A TOUCHDOWN.
THE YEAR OF CRAZY KICKS MAN I'M TELLING YOU. SECOND AND THREE. DEEP DEEP DROP LONG THROW OFF THE HANDS AND INCOMPLETE OF JAYDEN REED THIRD AND THREE GOT BEAT ON THE PLAY.
NOW EITHER EITHER MATT LAFLEUR OR JORDAN LOVE. HE'S BASICALLY LOOKING TO SEE WHERE SIX IS. I THINK WE'VE SEEN EVERY SINGLE RECEIVER THAT GREEN BAY HAS LINED UP AGAINST HIM BECAUSE BY THE WAY, KYLER GORDON IS A TREMENDOUSLY TALENTED PLAYER. HE'S JUST BEEN PLAYING THROUGH A LOT OF INJURIES, HAD A CALF, HAD A HAMMY AND RIGHT NOW LOVE LOOKS FOR HIM IN MAN COVERAGE. IT GOES RIGHT TO HIM. THIRD AND THREE.
PASS IS HOLD IN DOUBS INSIDE THE 45 COVERED BY JOHNSON AND GORDON. THAT'S A FIRST DOWN. CLOCK STOP 44 TIME-OUT THIRD AND FINAL. YOU'RE GOING TO USE THEIR LAST TIME-OUT. BOY I TELL YOU WE'VE BEEN TALKING ABOUT ALL THIS CALEB WILLIAMS AND THE WAY HE'S PLAYED ON THIRD AND FOURTH DOWN, ESPECIALLY IN HIS FOURTH QUARTER. AND NOW WE'RE SEEING THE SAME THING FROM JORDAN LOVE.
AND WE'RE SEEING SOME LIGHT FLURRIES AS WELL. YOU CAN SEE THEM THERE. WE HAD ABOUT A HALF HOUR FOR THIS FIELD ABOUT 45 MINUTES BEFORE THE GAME WAS COVERED IN WHITE. BEAUTIFUL THING. IT WAS TREMENDOUS. BUT NOW AS WE COME DOWN TO THE END, WHY NOT? IT'S THE WAY OF GREEN BAY CHICAGO GAME SHOULD END IN A LITTLE BIT OF SNOW. EXACTLY. THERE YOU GO. HE DOESN'T CARE. SO LOVE PROBABLY HAS A COUPLE PLAYS HERE. THEY CATCH THE BALL, THEY STAY INBOUNDS. YOU GOT.
TO GET UP TO THE LINE OF SCRIMMAGE READY TO GO. LOOKS DOWNFIELD, FIRES DOWNFIELD. CAUGHT TO THE 24-YARD LINE. GOES JAYDEN REED AND NOW YOU GOT AN INJURED PACKERS. AND THIS IS GOING TO COST THEM AN EXTRA 10S. THEY GOT TO STOP IT HERE AFTER A 20 YARD GAIN. AND THAT'S GOING TO COST SOME TIME ON THE CLOCK. THAT'S GOING TO BE A TEN SECOND RUN-OFF. NO TIMEOUTS. OH, MY GOSH THE TIMING OF THIS AGAIN A GREAT THROW. GREAT ROUTE. BECAUSE THEY ARE OUT OF TIMEOUTS. THEY'LL BE CHARGED A FOURTH EXCESS TIME-OUT. THAT INCLUDES A TEN SECOND RUN-OFF GAME CLOCK. OPERATOR PLEASE SET THE GAME CLOCK TO 22. PLAY CLOCK OPERATOR PLEASE SET THE PLAY CLOCK TO 30. BOTH CLOCKS WILL START AT NIGHT READY FOR PLAY SIGNAL.
SO THE INJURY HERE TAKES THE CLOCK DOWN TO 22. IT'S SEAN THAT'S THE CENTER OF ALL THINGS TOO. I MEAN IT'S SO FUNNY. IT'S NOT FUNNY. IT'S IRONIC. CHICAGO LOSES ITS LEFT TACKLE BEFORE THEY GET THE GO AHEAD TOUCHDOWN. NOW GREEN BAY OF ALL THINGS LOSES THEIR CENTER WITH 22 SECONDS TO GO.
YEAH LOOK AT THIS. SMITH COMES IN AND OF COURSE THIS IS STUFF YOU PREPARE AND WORK FOR. BUT YOU KNOW YOU GOT TO COME OUT. THE BIGGEST THING FOR HIM IS JUST GETTING THE SNAP BACK TO JORDAN LOVE. BUT HOW ABOUT THAT THROW? THAT TIME THE BEARS SAT BACK. THEY'VE BEEN PLAYING A LOT OF MAN-TO-MAN THIS TIME THEY SAT BACK IN ZONE AND IT REQUIRED A LOT OF TIME. THE OFFENSIVE LINE, EVEN WITH RYAN GOING DOWN, GAVE HIM ENOUGH TIME TO BE ABLE TO MAKE THAT THROW.
SO NOW LUCINA SMITH BACK-UP GUARD, BACK-UP CENTER, HE'LL MAKE HIS FIRST SNAP AND WHO KNOWS HOW LONG. NINTH PLAY OF THE DRIVE COMING. CLOCK BEGINS TO RUN ON THE REFEREE'S SIGNAL. LOVE DANCING LOVE THROWING. LOVE THROWING A LITTLE TOO HIGH. INTENDED FOR CHRISTIAN WATSON 13 SECONDS. HE THROWS THAT.
OVER THE MIDDLE. BY THE WAY, HE GETS HIT RIGHT AS HE THROWS THE FOOTBALL AND HE THROWS IT INTO A HOLE WHERE HE'S WAITING FOR WATSON TO RUN INTO RIGHT IN THE MIDDLE OF THREE DEFENDERS. WATSON ALMOST CAME DOWN WITH THAT FOOTBALL. TWO, MAYBE THREE PLAYS WITH 13 SECONDS LEFT, DEPENDING ON HOW QUICKLY THE BALL COMES OUT. AND OF COURSE THE BEARS. ALL THEY'RE THINKING ABOUT IS TACKLING HIM INBOUNDS.
KEEP THE CLOCK GOING. FROM THE 23, THE LEFT-HANDED SNAPPER THE CENTER. THERE'S MOVEMENT ON THAT.
LEFT SIDE I THINK IT'S WHYLE THE TIGHT END. OFFENSE NUMBER 63. THEY GOT THE TACKLE TEN SECOND RUN-OFF BECAUSE THE CLOCK WAS STOPPED AT THE TIME OF THE FOUL. FIVE-YARD PENALTY REMAINS SECOND DOWN.
RASHEED WALKER. 13 SECONDS BALL BACK AT THE 28. BEARS ONLY HAVE THREE GUYS UP AT THE LINE OF SCRIMMAGE ALL SPREAD APART. NO STEPPING UP. LOOKS TOWARD THE SIDELINE AND THEN HAS IT DEFLECTED. MONTEZ SWEAT HAVING A FABULOUS YEAR. MAKES THE PLAY THERE TWO SECONDS. ONE PLAY BARRING A DEFENSIVE FOUL. WOW WHAT A JOB OF HUSTLE THERE BY SWEAT AGAIN THE LEADER UP FRONT OF THIS DEFENSE RETRACED SALTED THE QUARTERBACK LOVE HAD PULLED OUT KIND OF CLIMBED THE POCKET AND IT DID A GOOD JOB THERE. GETTING A HAND ON THE FOOT OR A HAND ON THE ARM.
PLEASE RESET THE GAME CLOCK TO SEVEN SECONDS, WHICH IS THE TIME THAT THE GUYS HIT THE GROUND. THIRD DOWN.
ALL RIGHT. THEY PUT FIVE MORE BACK ON. ONE PLAY, MAYBE TWO. FROM THE 28. ALL OVER SOLDIER FIELD HEART SPEEDING FURIOUSLY GETS DROPPED LOVE LOOKING ONE LAST GASP. MOVING GUYS AROUND FIRES TO THE ENDZONE AND IT IS BROKEN UP. THE BEARS WIN IT IN A CRAZY ONE. THAT IS.
THE END OF THE GAME. KYLER GORDON TOOK CARE OF IT. THAT'S A VERY CURSORY HANDSHAKE. NO LOVE LOST BETWEEN THESE TWO GUYS AND THE CHICAGO BEARS WILL PLAY A GAME NEXT WEEKEND RIGHT HERE. THAT THAT PLAY WHAT THESE.
GUYS HAVE PLAYED THREE TIMES IN 34 DAYS, 35, 35 DAYS, EVERY SINGLE GAME. AS YOU MENTIONED THE TRILOGY, I NEVER THOUGHT IT COULD LIVE UP TO WHAT THOSE FIRST TWO GAMES ARE, BUT IT DID AND MAYBE MORE. AND IT COMES DOWN TO THE LAST PLAY AND INTO THE SNAP WASN'T GREAT. WE THOUGHT, OH, IT'S OVER, BUT BECAUSE HE'S JORDAN LOVE HE KEPT IT ALIVE, RIGHT? AND THEN NOT ONLY DOES HE KEEP THIS ALIVE, WATCH THE FOOTBALL PITCH DOWN ON THE GROUND. NOW WATCH HOW MUCH TIME HE TAKES HERE. HE'S GOT A THREE MAN RUSHING. HE'S JUST TRYING. HE'S POINTING, DIRECTING TRAFFIC. I THOUGHT HE MIGHT HAVE THROWN IT THERE. STILL BEING PATIENT. AND THEN HE JUST SETS THE HECK OF IT. I GOT TO TAKE A CHANCE AND THROW IT. JUST NOT ABLE TO MOVE THE RECEIVERS WHERE HE WANTED.
AND THE CHICAGO BEARS, AFTER A MISERABLE FIRST HALF, HORRIBLE COMEBACK AND ADVANCE IN THE PLAY-OFFS. GOOD FOR BEN JOHNSON AND HIS TEAM. THAT'S REALLY. A COMEBACK FOR THE AGES FOR THIS FRANCHISE, WHICH HAS ONLY BEEN DOING THIS FOR 104 YEARS.
WELL, THEY OUTSCORED GREEN BAY 28 TO 6 IN THE SECOND HALF. AND HOW ABOUT THIS 25
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The match between the Green Bay Packers and Chicago Bears in the 2025 NFL Wild Card round highlights the competitive dynamics and challenges faced by both teams. The Bears, led by rookie quarterback Caleb Williams, aim to establish an early rhythm against a strong Packers defense, while facing pressure after a turbulent season that included coaching changes. The game's outcome hinges on the…
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