Bears crumble late vs Packers; lose division

With the return of Aaron Rodgers, Randall Cobb, and news that Eddie Lacy would play on his bum ankle it seemed that all signs were pointing to a easy win for the Packers in Sunday's NFC North championship.

It was far from that.

After starting the game with a three in out the Bears offense caught fire. Matt Forte played a huge role in the game rushing for 110 yards, 2 rushing touchdowns, 47 receiving yards and a receiving touchdown.

With all eyes on Jay Cutler to step up to the challenge and play a great game he did. He threw for 226 passing yards, 2 touchdowns, and had a quarter back rating of 103.8.

He did throw 1 interception but that was the hail marry throw at the end of the game.

Jay Cutler stepped up and played well, Matt Forte played great, so whose to blame for the Bears heartbreaking loss?  Its the same issue the Bears have been dealing with all season.

Defense.

The Bears offense has never been the problem this year, they average 29 points per game second best in the NFL only behind the Peyton Manning led Denver Broncos. However the Bears defense has cost them all year.

The Bears finish the season with the worst rushing defense in the league allowing 161.5 rushing yards per game. Over all the Bears had the 29th best defense in the NFL this year allowing 26.7 points per game.

There are 32 teams in the NFL.

It was the defense that cost the Bears this game allowing Aaron Rodgers to find a WIDE OPEN Randall Cobb for a 48 yard yard touchdown pass in the final minute to put the Packers up for good.

 Bears fan's often point to there offense and quarterback Jay Cutler for the source of the failures on the field, but this year all fingers should be pointed at that laughable pathetic defense.

Hopefully the Bears fix there defensive issues for the next years season because if they do they can be a Outstanding football team.

Beardown.

Tony Romo done for Season

Dallas Cowboy's  overpaid quarterback Tony Romo will miss the rest of the season due to a back injury, first reported by ESPN's Adam Schefter.

Another source told ESPN Senior NFl Insider Chris Mortenson that Romo has  herniated disk in the lumbar region and needs surgery. Although he hasn't examined Tony Romo himself, Dr. Michael Kaplan said surgery on a injury of this nature has  "95 % predictable" with a 3-4 months recovery time span.

Head Coach Jason Garret was quick to not completely rule out Tony for Sunday's must win game vs the Eagles.

"We have not made that determination at all at this point," Garret said. "Like any other player, the day after a game you just want to see what the injury is and we've done that with Tony and we want to get him involved in treatment as quickly as we can and we started that process."

The Cowboys will turn to Kyle Orton at the quarterback position who has 69 career starts with a record of 35-34. However he hasn't started a game since 2011.

Deja vu all over again? Last year Romo hurt his Ribs in last year's season ending loss to the Redskins which kept the Cowboys from making the playoffs. In the exact same situation as last year Romo could be on the sidelines. Maybe it just wasn't meant to be for the Cowboys.

Then again, when is it ever?

Jay Cutler must come through for Bears

This past Sunday the Quarterback with the best QBR in the past 4 games was to much protest, sitting on the bench. I know what your thinking, and  yes, Tom Brady and Peyton Manning were suited up. I'm talking about Josh McCown. 

McCown through the four and a half games he played while in place for the injured Cutler was just on fire, 1,809 passing yards, 13 touchdowns , and only one interception. You can understand why when the Bears named Jay Cutler the starter for this past Sunday's game vs the Browns there was a general outcry of anger from Bear's fans.

Cutler on Sunday started the game rusty, as expected. He threw two interceptions that had me fighting to not throw something at my television. Like most Bears fan's at that moment I screamed "Put McCown in!". But Cutler, after getting his timing back had a much better second half and ended up with 3 touchdowns and 265 passing yards. His QBR was 84.7.

Cutler or McCown? As long as there in Marc Trestman's offense, who cares? Cutler is having his best year statically posting the 8th best QBR in the league. The one thing Cutler is know for however is his turnovers. He had two vs the browns but the NFL is a league about results and the Bears won, Marc Trestman didn't look like a idiot, and now they control there own destiny thanks to the heroics of Ravens Kicker Justin Tucker.

Justin Tucker hit the game winning 61 yard field goal to defeat the lions on Monday night and give the Bears sole possession of first place. If the Bears win out with victories over the Eagles and Packers, there in the playoffs.

Jay Cutler, who i'm sure will be seeking a long term deal with the Bears at season's end must earn it.

You want that contract Jay? Lead the Bears to the playoffs. 

Return of the Mamba: Kobe Bryant plans to make Sunday's game debut

After a long 8 months full of therapy workouts, lifting and more that we could ever possibly understand, Kobe Bryant announced today via his Facebook page that he will return Sunday Dec 8th vs the Toronto Raptors.

The video showed his No. 24 Lakers uniform hanging in mid air being battered by the elements of rain, snow, wind. and much more. The jersey gets torn right down the middle presumably symbolizing  his ruptured Achilles.

One can only imagine the fuel Kobe has  to prove his doubters, and  haters wrong and show them, and the world  that he can return to his basketball form of greatness.

Kobe returns to a Scrappy .500 Lakers team at 9-9. The Lakers are only 1.5 games back of a playoff spot in the competitive western conference and with Steve Nash and Jordan Farmar sidelined this news must be exciting for the Lakers organization to hear.


The game will be televised on NBA TV nationally(9:30 pm ET) and Time Warner sports Net locally.

Go get em Mamba.