Gunslinger
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DaveMage said:
Not really. Their first touchdown drive was impressive, but scoring 16 points off of 6 turnovers was definitely not...
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Not really. Their first touchdown drive was impressive, but scoring 16 points off of 6 turnovers was definitely not...
dragonhead
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the bears got lucky and the cards played badly.DaveMage said:
after whatching the replay, the seahawks did have an illegal formation, but also false started. oh, well. any calls on this weeks games yet? i think the bears will finally fall.
dragonhead
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kenobi65 said:Well, it won't be this week, as the Bears are playing the woeful Byes, and they've never lost to them.
The Byes could get luccky
d20Dwarf
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kenobi65 said:
They were lucky that they kept trying no matter how much the chips were stacked against them? They were lucky they have a strong character that's little seen in the NFL? Great teamwork and spirit?
I think saying they got lucky takes away from one of the great football performances of all time. They kept trying, and as a result came out with a win against all odds. I say kudos to them, not "ya got lucky."
Fumble recoveries are largely determined by luck (causing fumbles is another matter, but recoveries average out to 50/50 in the long run); no team in NFL history has consistently recovered a majority of fumbles. The Bears scored directly off of a fumble recovery. Special teams scores are largely determined by luck (when the NFL record for punt return TDs is less than ten a year, you know not even the best can do it consistently). Misses on unblocked field goals are largely determined by distance, luck, and weather (and in Phoenix, weather is a non-factor). Without a fumble recovery TD, a punt return TD, and two missed field goals (one of under circumstances that make it nearly automatic for an NFL kicker), the game would have gone to OT, or the Bears would have lost.
d20Dwarf said:
All true...but...
Even with all that, they still wouldn't have won if the Cardinals had known how to protect a lead, or Rackers makes an eminently-makeable field goal at the end.
That game was a testament to how messed-up and snakebit the Cardinals franchise is, at least as much as how resilient the Bears are.
