Bears at Packers

[manly]

Originally posted by: Deeko

Originally posted by: manly

Originally posted by: Deeko
Well....that last play was classic favre. Throw it up and SOMEONE will come down with it...but who? It barely even looked like he was looking downfield when he threw that one. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't.

How do you think the Hail Mary play works?

That's clever.

I'm not sure if you've ever watched Brett Favre play in the 30+ years he's been in the league, but that's what he does. He throws the ball where he wants, when he wants to, regardless of who is there. And you know what? He's successful with it quite a bit, which is why he's one of the best quarterbacks of all time, but there's games where it bites him in the ass, too. I seem to recall a similar ill-advised throw against the Eagles in the playoffs a few years ago (when they had the momentum in hand and it wasn't necessary) that ended up costing them the game.

It doesn't have to be a hail mary though, the favre-mantra can manifest itself all over the field - like the throw to urlacher, or the shovel to morency. Or the touchdown passes he threw, too.

The thing is you have a valid point, but chose a poor example. Everyone knows Favre is a gunslinger. You kinda have to take the good with the stupid. When everyone was dogging him to retire, I felt he was just making bone-headed decisions, rather than an over-the-hill athlete clinging onto the field. Besides the team's rebuilding in recent years, the worst thing that happened to Favre was Holmgren leaving.

The pick in the Eagles playoff game was one of the all-time-worst heaves.

But back to the last play of the game, Donald Driver actually had a decent chance of catching the ball if he leaped earlier. He's not that tall so it would have been a jump ball against the DB anyhow.

As others have pointed out, Favre didn't lose the game (nor was it the early turnovers). It was the piss-poor play calling in the 2nd half.

 

[Homerboy]

The 12 man on the field call was a horrible bust. As was the lining up over center BS (I'll admit it was close... but he was line dup outside and certainly didn't take advantage of the extra 1cm he was "over")

The 12 man call blows my ming though. If John Madden can get the call right and a referee can't... that's just sad.

 

[Summitdrinker]

i think the packers (maybe the coaching staff mostly) wanted to show the world that they could run the ball, well they proved there point in the first half, but.............wtf, it seemed like they thought the game was won, and time was running out. it was way to early in the game for that type of game play. the head coach can take the blame.
then later on they throw the chance of winning on farve shoulders

I think farve was frustrated by then, really he did his part and looked great the first half and some of the ealier second. then give the bears first downs with penalties too