Postgame
10:50 p.m.
On the NBC postgame, Rodgers "to get a win, under these circumstances tonight, big for our team." Jennings credits the poise of Rodgers and hard work in the offseason.
4th Quarter
10:42 p.m. Bears' 3rd Drive 1:11
I see Hester move to an upback mode. Reverse. Reverse. Bennett takes the ball to the CHI 38. Why? Kick the thing deep!
OK, defense...keep this lead for once!
CUTLER INT'D 4th TIME! HARRIS! AT LAST! It's over! Dagger call by Wayne.
10:29 p.m. Packers' 2nd Drive 2:28
Green Bay 21, Chicago 15
Rodgers-Jennings 50 yd TD pass (2-pt play successful on pass to Jennings)
Drive start on GB 29
Rodgers' first comeback could come now...in fact, I'll call it - he will. Calling it. They'll win on a field goal.
Why run on 1st down in this situation? Why wear a lampshade to a Packers game, as NBC just showed?
Not a good time for the dropsies, Jordy. "What did your grade school coach say? Don't run with it before you catch it? (Larry comment.)
Rodgers into the slide at the 50 - NO FLAG ON THE HIT? Two guys hit him and there's no call? I think I saw the refs on Rush Street last night.
3rd down on the 50 - Rodgers deep - TOUCHDOWN!!!!!!!!! JENNNINGS!!!!!!!!!!
Finally, Rodgers hits a receiver deep.
10:11 p.m Bears' 2nd Drive 10:04
Chicago 15, Green Bay 13
Gould 21 yd FG
Drive start on CHI 28
So will the Packers get another break? It looks like the Bears audibled on that fake field goal. Hmmm......
Bennett with an 11-yard pass reception - a throw "Kyle Orton just would not make," said Wayne Larrivee. He compares Cutler to Favre.
Agh! Collins nearly got Cutler's 4th pick. Bigby is down.....and is cringing. This makes me cringe, as did the video of his left leg while getting accidentally knocked over by Harris.
Desmond Clark out for the rest of the game with a back injury, NBC says.
3rd down - flag on the far sideline on a tipped incompletion. Harris for illegal contact. Another bail out. Ticky-tack call.
Both teams today are playing about a C-minus quality game.
Uh oh....Hester on the quick pass and he gets to the 30 yard line. Wayne with a worried wow on a 34-yard pass play.
If you've got nails, start biting.
Olsen makes a catch to the Green Bay 23. Gould now in range, and this is now nail-swallowing stuff. 3rd-2 at GB 23: ugh, first down to McKie.
Forte to the five..."my goodness," Wayne says. The Bears are not only eating up yards, but time. Aaron Rodgers may want to get that first comeback tonight, huh?
Goal to go now, Forte twice can't get in. Good to stop him from getting to end zone, but bad for time. I'd rather have a 1st down TD than a 3rd down TD, but a 4th down FG is better than all of that.
3rd-goal at three yard line under three minutes, and Cutler missed an open Olsen. Packers' D finally with a win.
10:06 p.m. Packers' 1st Drive
Green Bay 13, Chicago 12
Crosby 39 yd FG
Drive start on CHI 30
Allen Barbre is giving the Bears every chance to make up for the bad calls by Lovie Smith. Anderson forcing a three-yard loss.
3rd-3 at CHI 23: Rodgers w/penalty marker down and gets the first down...holding. Wayne: "Goodness." Sitton should sit for that. We cannot get out of field goal range.
Rodgers hits Jennings, short, but it gets better for Crosby's range.
9:57 p.m. Bears' 1st Drive 14:41
Drive start on CHI 28
Cullen Jenkins "has been a man" (quoting Wayne Larrivee) stopping the run. Well, he is male.
3rd and 6 at CHI 31: Cutler gets his blasted receiver - but a penalty near the 30. What is it? Oh, begging for the arm extended to the north end zone. Yep...offsides on the offense. How does a wide receiver line up in the neutral zone? Duh, Mr. Bennett.
3rd and 11: incompletion...Bad throw by Cutler. Nice.
SNAP TO UPSIDE AND fake punt and Garrett Wolfe is wrapped up! Why would Lovie Smith do that in his own territory? Thanks for giving us the ball in great field position.
Oh no...Green Bay may have had too many people on the field. Lovie challenging...and losing. :)
3rd Quarter
9:48 p.m. Packers' 2nd Drive
Drive start on GB 29
Grant gets a hole - finally a good solid run. 14 yards. This O-line has GOT to have more dominance like that. Another run to the 50, another to the 46 for a first down. The Packers MUST have that kind of running this season.
Wynn on two runs gets four yards. That's what you get for having to give your top running back a breather.
Oh my goodness....Clifton? What the heck - false start to the 37 on 3rd down. Puhleeze. Donald Lee makes a catch short of the first down, and a 62 yard field goal attempt for Crosby. Nah.
Ball saved by Jarrett Bush - ball downed at the six yard line. Never mind - Matthews penalty for holding.
Punt attempt number two...this time at the CHI 27.
9:35 p.m. Bears' 2nd Drive
Chicago 12, Green Bay 10
Gould 47 FG
Drive start on CHI 36
I'm scared. This Chicago team now has lots of momentum. Nick Collins out with cramps - Rouse in the lineup.
3rd and 2 at the GB 41: Ugh. Desmond Clark wide open. Hate seeing those Chicago tight ends get so wide open. Again and again, we see it. Year after year.
Oh, do false start penalties help. So do GREAT sacks by Cullen Jenkins and Ryan Pickett...and Kampman and Jolly. The whole four-man-line...oh, wait, three man line and LB Kampman.
Harris stops Forte at the line, but Chicago can get the lead...47 yarder for Gould.
9:29 p.m. Packers' 1st Drive 10:08
Drive start on GB 32
Rodgers getting sacked again proves that the Packers can have all the skill position guys they want, but if they can't protect the QB and open holes for Grant, it doesn't matter.
NELSON missed the deep ball of his hands. This time, it wasn't Rodgers fault. Well thrown. He beat Tillman.
3rd-19 - Rodgers screen INC...boo birds come. Allen Barbre gives up the pass rush to Ogunleye. Ugh.
9:16 p.m. Bears' 1st Drive 14:55
Green Bay 10, Chicago 9
Drive start on CHI 21
Nice job of tying up Chicago blockers on first down. On 2nd down, not so good. It's all about the linemen...if Forte gets going, it could be a long and painful second half.
Cullen Jenkins' stops like what he just did on Bennett could help.
3rd down and 13- Bennett heck of a catch past the 50. A great throw by Cutler through traffic on the far flank.
3rd-3...Forte stopped at the 36...spot? Oh, he got it easily. What? They rule no! Shouldn't trust the yellow line on TV.
4th down....Cutler calls time after the drama....and a commercial airliner flies right above Lambeau. Could someone have tried to drop off a new Bears QB?
He tries the QB sneak...the right arm pointing north from the ref not the happiest sign.
Next play - Cutler with perfect protection, and Woodson and Collins didn't communicate, giving Hester a free run to the end zone. Collins limps off the field.
2nd Quarter
8:58 p.m. Bears' 5th Drive :47
Drive start on CHI 41
Knox is getting open on mid-deeper pattern. We have to cover that guy. Forte hit in the backfield - that will end the half on a good note, assuming the Hail Mary doesn't work...and it didn't.
8:55 p.m. Packers' 4th Drive 1:44
Drive start on GB 11
Wynn running up the middle is not going to get you the kind of yardage you need to make to get downfield and put up another score. Do like the Badgers did and chuck one deep to get into field goal range. They tried - but Rodgers' third missed throw deep downfield to an open receiver.
8:47 p.m. Bears' 4th Drive 4:36
Drive start at CHI 20
Why didn't Crosby pooch the kickoff? Get them in bad territory - instead, through the uprights for a 65 yard field goal that isn't.
Chillar with a HUGE sack on 1st and 10 - going Edwin Moses leaping over Garrett Wolfe to get to Chillar. Sign him up for the 2012 Olympic team.
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"After further review, the Bears Still Suck."
8:42 p.m. Packers' 3rd Drive 4:39
Green Bay 10, Chicago 2
Grant 1 yd TD run
Drive start on CHI 3
Lovie throws a red flag...so they're reviewing a fumble that allegedly happened. Didn't see any fumble that would have gone out of bounds after the end zone, meaning Bears football on a touchback. Seeing replay - ball should be at the one yard line, not the three. Could he have even reached the end zone?
Review by ref: runner stepped out of bounds at the two. Ball is at the one. Nice backfire, Lovie! Per Larry: "thank you, Lovie!"
Grant - TD! Wayne hits high tenor C on the call. Alex Brown with a 15-yard penalty on the kickoff.
8:35 p.m. Bears' 3rd Drive 5:46
Drive start on CHI 44
A great return by Hester - I am so sick of saying that - puts Chicago in position.
Cutler's 3rd pick! Williams! YES! TD? Nope, but THAT MAKES UP FOR IT!!!
8:29 p.m. Packers' 2nd Drive 6:47
Green Bay 3, Chicago 2
Safety, Manning sacks Rodgers in end zone
Drive start on GB 16
That was not the most accurate throw to Jennings, who beat a double team deep...it would have been another TD. Rodgers is uncharacteristically missing receivers open deep.
The Packers could learn a few lessons on how to get linemen and linebackers free to make stops - Ryan Grant can get almost nothing going.
Safety - Daniel Manning chasing down Rodgers...how could he now throw the ball away?
8:24 p.m. Bears' 2nd Drive 8:13
Drive start on CHI 24
Knox snags a bomb from Cutler...he got huge separation from Woodson. No TD, but that's a 68-yard bomb. Ugh. It proves Cutler has an arm and Knox has moves.
Packers repulse on 1st and 2nd down...3rd? PASS INT'D! Johnny Jolly! He didn't eat at Kroll's butterburgers!
8:13 p.m. Packers' 1st Drive 13:43
Green Bay 3, Chicago 0
Crosby 52 yd FG
Drive start on GB 22
Just barely getting any running going. Have they had a run of longer than three yards? Well, the 2nd down play did.
3rd down - Driver decided to catch the ball ths time in traffic...that's more like it!
Grant FINALLY breaks a big run - 15 yarder. Then, again, ANOTHER RUN, but as Keith Jackson would say, "look at the yellow hanky! Mike McCarthy needs a straight jacket" after Jason Spitz' holding. Thanks, former 620WTMJ colleague Ben Sherman for putting that idea in my head.
Ah, a 3rd and 15, but in field goal range if there's no loss here. The blitz forced a throw short outside to create a 52-yard field goal opportunity. YES!!!!
8:10 p.m. Bears' 1st Drive 14:52
Start on GB 20
Cullen Jenkins ate Matt Forte on 1st down like he was a Kroll's butterburger. Maybe that's where Williams went for dinner before the game and got his butterfingers.
Perhaps Bears WR Bennett had the same dinner as he dropped it on 3rd down. The punt barely got away. They knocked down the punter, but no flag.
1st Quarter
8:05 p.m. Packers' 4th Drive :58
Start of drive: GB 41
Rodgers sacked again by Ogunleye and he is passing by Allen Barbre "like it's an open door," as Wayne put it. Can Spitz or Wells play RT?
ANOTHER drop for Driver...but partially harassed on the throw by Urlacher.
8:02 p.m. Bears' 3rd Drive
Start of drive: GB 20
1st down: the exact way the 3-4 should work on stopping the run - linemen tie up linemen and linebackers flow to the football for a one-yard loss. 3rd down: ruled an incomplete pass instead of a fumble, which it might have been, but the whistles blew it deader than a doornail, doorknob, or similar.
7:58 p.m. Packers' 3rd Drive 4:05
Start of drive: GB 43
Now it's time to take advantage of a short field, but the running game is getting no lather. The running game needs to use the football version of all the hand sanitizer we used in Madison yesterday.
Rodgers deep "Driver's out there...the pass incomplete." He had five yards on Zachary Bowman and if it's accurate, it's 7-0 Packers.
7:50 p.m. Bears' 2nd Drive
Start of drive: CHI 16
Well, Devin Hester has learned the skill of tip-toeing his feet in bounds on the first play on a 22-yard gain. Perhaps he's not just a speed demon.
Just as I think Cutler is getting a rhythm, a great blitz with Williams and Chillar proves that it will be a problem for him to keep rhythm and stay accurate.
As the Bears move - well, they wouldn't have after Cutler threw a duck to Tramon Williams and he must have had greasy finger food before the game - dropsie disease. WHAT? TWICE! Hang on the 2nd time and the Packers have a pick six! Possible 14-point turnaround. (Defensive holding wipted it out anyway.)
Doesn't matter - thank you Nick Collins for bailing out Tramon! Huge INT - and from one of our staffers, "Cutler looks like our saving grace...WOW! Looks a lot like Rex Grossman to me."
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"Didn't the Bears used to wear dark blue pants on the road?"
During the 80's, yes, and for selected home games - usually when they'd get killed by the Packers in prime time. They still do pull out the blue sometimes.
7:42 p.m. Packers' 2nd Drive 10:45
Start of drive: GB 9
Nice catch by Jennings for a first down catch to get out of the opposite red zone...thrown right at his ankle. Heck of an adjustment by the O-line to avoid a Lance Briggs blitz for a sack.
3rd-4 at GB 28: Rodgers does a fantastic job to avoid a sack and he delivered a strike to "MR RELIABLE!" Donald Driver. Great call, Wayne, on the accurate nickname.
Agh on 1st down. Ogunleye sprinted past Allen Barbre like Usain Bolt sprinting past me. Larry saying Barbre just didn't move his feet.
3rd-12 at GB 40: Driver was no longer Mr. Reliable on a juggling catch attempt. Nice contain on Hester, though, on the punt return - just a six yard gain.
7:39 p.m. Bears' 1st Drive 11:39
Start of drive: CHI 39
Jay Cutler's first pass: incomplete. Hmm....they're going no huddle. A little stragedy with Lovie Smith's Flying Circus. But, it didn't work - two incompletions including a monster overthrow on 3rd down.
7:31 p.m. Packers 1st Drive 15:00
It's just the first play, but a 48 yard kickoff return by Jordy Nelson ain't a bad first play to start the season. Also like the first play getting Ryan Grant involved for a six-yard gain.
3rd and 5 at CHI 46: NICE first down to Jennings. This offense is ramped up.
The running game didn't do much in its first couple carries, forcing another 3rd and long, and an incompletion. 50 yard FG time for Crosby? No good.
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"Ashton Kutcher is at the Packers game tonight." Just my own opinion, but if he's not in a Packers or Bears jersey, I don't care.
Pregame
7:29 p.m.
Green Bay wins the toss and will receive the kickoff. Ah, for the Bears to play from behind right off the bat.
7:22 p.m.
As promised, Coach McCarthy decides to introduce the defense. Nice touch...too bad we can't see it on the tube with Faith Hill's danceround in front of the flashing peacock logos. Great touch to include some of the 1959 Packers, like Jerry Kramer, in the Packers introductions, too.
7:21 p.m.
Wayne Larrivee mentions on the radio broadcast that it's the Green jerseys with white numbers, gold trim, gold pants, gold helmets. So glad that will never change.
7:09 p.m.
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"Hard to contain excitement."
7:07 p.m.
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"Football. Nachos. Beer. What could be better?"
6:44 p.m.
Will Blackmon, Brandon Jackson and B.J. Raji are inactive for tonight. Not having Raji especially could hurt the depth.