The Good, the Bad and the Ugly: Packers vs Bears

Aaron hands out the Good, the Bad and the Ugly from the Green Bay PackersWild Card playoff loss to the Chicago Bears.

 

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Melchy's picture

January 11, 2026 at 10:42 am

CLEAN HOUSE!!!!!!!!--3 straight #7 seedings with this talent...CLEAN HOUSE !!!!!!!!

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dblbogey's picture

January 11, 2026 at 11:52 am

You didn't like the constant 1st down- run up the middle, gain nothing, calls? I'm in - not one to panic, but MLF isn't the guy. Hell, hire Hafley, he seems to have testicles.

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GreenandBold's picture

January 11, 2026 at 12:10 pm

Hafley is ordinary . I mean the defense was ugly in the second half too . Hire Harbaugh .

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SicSemperTyrannis's picture

January 11, 2026 at 02:22 pm

Hafley also turned the culture around. We could use that extended to the whole roster.

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Oxymoron 3339's picture

January 11, 2026 at 04:24 pm

Fire Gute

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DragonSilk's picture

January 11, 2026 at 10:49 am

THE GOOD: Rasheed Walker proved beyond any doubt we need a new LT. So he'll be gone.
THE BAD: The kicker proved he can't kick under pressure, so he'll be gone.
THE UGLY: HC admits he didn't change anything in Q3 when we were getting our ass kicked. So he'll be gone.

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dblbogey's picture

January 11, 2026 at 11:48 am

Give Love credit for choking as well. Two intentional grounding, both the result of pure panic. He doesn't appear to be the guy.

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KurtMc's picture

January 11, 2026 at 04:11 pm

IMO the second grounding call looked like JL threw too low & missed his window hitting the O-lineman. Not an excuse but an observation.

I place this disaster squarely on MLF for many reasons all being pointed out (again).

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GreenandBold's picture

January 11, 2026 at 12:13 pm

The “Head Coach “ has no answers just listen to his pressers after the game . A lot of “ great questions “ but no answers after seeing repeated melt downs this season .

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SicSemperTyrannis's picture

January 11, 2026 at 02:23 pm

You're expecting Ed Policy to change anything?!?

Bold move, Cotton ...

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bjkdad44's picture

January 12, 2026 at 07:17 pm

🤞🏻🙏🏻🤞🏻

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rstain99's picture

January 11, 2026 at 10:51 am

The Good? Receivers played well, not Musgrave totally missed the bus to the field. Had a chance to establish himself but was missing in action.

The Bad: MLF was at the game, hopefully finds new zip code next year. Team reflects coach very soft, Love has no Favre in him at all. Williams has that grit.

The Ugly: Left their nuts in the lockeroom atfter halftime game was over or maybe it wasn't. Valentine braindead play where was Diggs injured?

My hope is MLF out, ST coach out, Gary gone, Nixon impeached, Valentine sent to Football school, McManus sorry you had a chance gone, Gute gone, Testicular Fortitiude some how found before July. Love needs to find some emotions and learn to call the play and get the F out of the huddle so you can make adjustments

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dblbogey's picture

January 11, 2026 at 11:49 am

You deserve an upvote for the "Impeach Nixon" reference!

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rstain99's picture

January 11, 2026 at 12:03 pm

Thats for the oldtimers been a Packer fan since 1966 this has me down like 2014 loss to Seahawks

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SicSemperTyrannis's picture

January 11, 2026 at 02:27 pm

I heard Nixon's resignation speech walking back from seeing Blazing Saddles in the theater. Small town, every window open, every TV and radio playing it in sync.

An unforgettable night ...

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rstain99's picture

January 14, 2026 at 08:37 am

Funny thing is, Nixon I heard wants a raise. After that ole at the goal line a new zip code for him is needed. won't miss his beer muscles penalties always coming at the wrong times. Blame Gute for this as he just decided they had enough in the secondary hell Willie Wood and Herb Addereley at their age would have have been better. clean house good defensive minded head coach who has a great OC. Hmm who could that be ? He is waiting for your call Ed.

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Major Snafu's picture

January 11, 2026 at 07:20 pm

Good points. Love is mentally slow on the uptake. Probably couldn't get into div 1 schools due to gpa. If will take you to 8 wins if your lucky.

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pacman's picture

January 11, 2026 at 11:15 am

Good: Maybe this embarrassment forces this organization to get out of the mediocrity / choke business and fire MLF and others.

Bad: MLF's reign after Rodgers. At least their record was clearly better with 12. If anybody needs a coach for a 30 minute game, he might be your man.

Ugly: I will now be calling Green Bay "Choke-town" instead of "Title-town" until they fire MLF. This is now the Packers MO. Let's see if Policy is willing to live with that.

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GreenandBold's picture

January 11, 2026 at 12:20 pm

Brilliant ! Choke town . Sad but true .

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SicSemperTyrannis's picture

January 11, 2026 at 02:29 pm

"Now" the Packer's mo? Remind me which playoff game with AR12 MLF didn't choke in the biggest moments?

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pacman's picture

January 11, 2026 at 04:20 pm

I reached my limit. It would have been valid before too.

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Since'75's picture

January 11, 2026 at 07:33 pm

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splitpea1's picture

January 11, 2026 at 11:35 am

Good: As wretched as the second half offense was, both Doubs and Golden showed up big time. We wouldn't have even scored in the second half if it wasn't for Golden's artful dashing and dodging to the end zone. Here is a player who doesn't need the perfect play design to make a big impact.

Bad: The lack of adjustments in the second half was stunning, along with the confusion of both offensive and defensive units in the closing minutes of the game. Panic and lack of preparedness for the deciding moments of a playoff game is just unprofessional, and the coaching staff is at fault...McManus: looks like we'll be auditioning for kickers again; maybe we'll get it right someday.

The Lucky: Four fumbles and we got them all back. But even getting the breaks (also including a couple of those incomplete pass calls against the Bears--which were right--couldn't save us from poor coaching and the unfortunate flair for wilting under pressure.

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SicSemperTyrannis's picture

January 11, 2026 at 02:31 pm

Now there's something to put on a resume: "an unfortunate flair for wilting under pressure."

That's MLF's legacy, at least in GB. Ed Policy, please make it stop!!

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Major Snafu's picture

January 11, 2026 at 07:24 pm

Golden made two plays this year. Some contribution for a one pick. I have nothing against the guy other then he is small and more likely a third round find. Obviously LeFleur didn't have a clue how to use him or why we had him.

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albert999's picture

January 11, 2026 at 11:35 am

They’ve created a term
PREVENT 2ND HALF OFFENSE

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GreenandBold's picture

January 11, 2026 at 12:22 pm

Yes we lost despite our prevent offense in the second half .

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Tex49's picture

January 11, 2026 at 11:55 am

Fun fact most people don’t know. Johnny Cash’s song hurt is about packers playoff losses.

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Pack103172's picture

January 12, 2026 at 01:27 am

That's actually a Nine Inch Nails song that Johnny Cash covered. Just pointing that out.

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stockholder's picture

January 11, 2026 at 12:00 pm

"living in lies rather than the truth "
points to the idea that people often prefer
comforting falsehoods over harsh realities.

Yes I"m pointing right at GUTE.
The Good- 1st 1/2
The Bad- Kicker
The ugly - Bears

I'm tired of Gute and his
swinging door-
The temporary fix must stop.
Anthony Belton is now the RG.
And these 3 draft picks are needed
OT prefer RT -
John Micheal Gyllenborg TE. Wyoming
Because Kraft might not be the same.
A huge NT like Harris.

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BabeParilli's picture

January 11, 2026 at 12:06 pm

Good - The stud wide receivers - Watson, Doubs. Reed and GOLDEN!!- making Jordan Love look good with excellent route running and catches and knock aways of interceptions - see Reed.

Bad - Valentine losing Moore on the touchdown and lack of safety support on that and several of the Bears passes to the tight end Loveland and receiver Moore

Ugly - Jordan Love choking again for the entire 2nd half.
We saw a franchise quarterback perform in the clutch last night.

And we saw a future journeyman backup CHOKE and fall apart in the clutch last night.

Caleb Williams in the clutch played like a franchise QB against a tired Packer defense - tired due to Jordan leading 3 three and outs and a 1 five and out on the other of the first 4 Packer possessions of the 2nd half - and the loss of Edgerrin Cooper to injury hurt the Packer defense as well.

And Jordan Love in the clutch played like a career backup.

Jordan Love 15 of 31 in the 2nd half - MISERABLE 48.3% completion percentage.

First 4 Packer Possessions at the start of 2nd half:

3 and out. Punt (3rd quarter)
3 and out. Punt (3rd quarter)
5 and out. Punt (3rd quarter)
3 and out. Punt (4ht quarter)
Jordan 3 completions on 10 pass attempts (including the creative Lafleur play call pass to Kinnard) over these 4 possessions - a miserable 30% accuracy!!.

Just 3 runs over those 4 possessions, including a nice 6 yard run by Jacobs on 2nd and 4 for the only first down on the 4 possessions. The ONLY FIRST DOWN IN 17+ MINUTES where Jordan disappeared!

And who were the 2 penalties on during these 4 possessions??

Jordan Love - twice for intentional grounding!

Even if the Packers did not score on these 4 possessions if Jordan could have at least sustained 1 or 2 drives on these 4 possessions the Packers could have taken 5 or 10 more minutes off the clock.

Over those 17 inept Jordan Love minutes instead of Jordan putting the game out of reach for the Packers the Bears wore down the Packers defense, but the Packers defense still held their own and a 21-6 lead at half was still 21-9 when Whelan punted with 12 minutes and 54 seconds left in the 4th quarter.

And then another penalty on Jordan for delay of game - pushing McManus field goal attempt - which McManus would miss narrowly - back 5 yards!

And the only score that Jordan was to lead the Packers to in the ENTIRE 2ND HALF - WITH THE GAME ON THE LINE - was only possible because Jacobs kick return set the Packers up at their 45 yard line and a short field for Jordan.

Jordan played like he played in the 4th quarter against the 49ers in 2023 and the Eagles last year - lowest passer rating in playoff game in Packers history.

In this game, Lafleur's creative 1st half play calls set up easy throws for Jordan that any of us could have completed - including 3 of 4 of the TD passes - these padded Jordan's stats, and on paper made Jordan's performance look better than it was. Jordan completed just 24 of 46 pass attempts - that is 52.1%

Take away those 1 and 7 yard TD passes to Doubs and Watson and the short toss to Golden that Golden turned into a 23 yard TD pass by breaking tackles and hurdling tacklers - that was 99% Golden - and that 103.8 passer rating is in the low 80s. Those easy passes and other wide open receivers in 1 on 1 pass coverage are all due to Lafleur's offensive play calling and schemes.

Lafleur has hidden Jordan's weaknesses for 3 years - not an easy task at all. .

No Coach could have done any better given what Gutekunst gave him in Jordan.

The difference posted above in Lafleur's won loss record with Rodgers vs. won loss record with Jordan - both a) overall and b) when pass plays exceed running plays - after all the NFL today is a passing league - is black and white proof.

Gutekunst showered Jordan in top draft choices of receivers, tight ends, running bacs, and offensive lineman, but hasn't helped - Jordan is still processes the field too slow for a franchise NFL quarterback, is immobile, and inaccurate.

Willis is a head and shoulder better player.

Jordan is our Carson Wentz.

Malik is our Jalen Hurts.

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Trapped-in-MN-BUT-GB-fan's picture

January 11, 2026 at 02:55 pm

I guess Love is responsible for the poor offensive blocking, the defensive secondary not knowing their ass from a hole in the ground, the defensive line not being able to get a sack, the piss poor play calling (not to mention our same 3 or 4 plays we have used offensively for about 3 years-off tackle runs for example), no adjustments by MLF every second half. Yep get rid of Love-it will really improve all our problems. The only answer is to get rid of MLF and the GM while we still have enough good players to build a good team.

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GreenandBold's picture

January 11, 2026 at 12:18 pm

I hope the training staff offers mandatory testosterone therapy this off season .

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Snap the ball's picture

January 11, 2026 at 01:27 pm

It’s the new NFL

You know the story about the bull and his son looking over a hill at all the heifers I assume.

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Major Snafu's picture

January 11, 2026 at 12:21 pm

Good - Season over and the true pack fans had five straight games to see what we've all been saying, this is the worst secondary in football.
Bad - The secondary and Jeff Hafwit
Ugly - Next season. Veryh ugly.

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Packerpasty's picture

January 11, 2026 at 04:02 pm

And not much money to fix things

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GreenandBold's picture

January 11, 2026 at 05:03 pm

Are you saying Matt should get out now that Ed would be doing him a favor by firing him before it gets even worse next season ?

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Snap the ball's picture

January 11, 2026 at 01:24 pm

The good made the playoffs
The bad. Barley beat cardinals and giants
The ugly losing 3 games at home

This team should’ve have made the playoffs. Vikings played better ball at the end of the year and had 9 wins

With so sons QBs.

Then pick up Diggs and he plays 1 play. 1 play

Run the ball 3 times in 3rd qtr I think .

Wilson 1 carry

How stupidly on that.

When you need a big catch. Reed drops the pass ….serious

And then

Mc Miss. misses 3 kicks. 7 points

I still like the miss vs eagles game. It was 25 yards wide left

9 wins is embarrassing for this team

That’s a tad above 500.

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Major Snafu's picture

January 11, 2026 at 07:30 pm

Ya this D made Winston and Flacco look like HOF prospects. Two games we barely won. Played those teams with their qb's hurt too or our record could have been worse and missing playoffs to the Vikes..

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Starrbrite's picture

January 11, 2026 at 01:28 pm

The good: I don’t know?—Love, but he’s no Farve or ARod. Doubs and Watson had their moments.
Bad: 1) Another 3&Out w/2nd half KO; a pass to a lineman (kinnard) near our own goaline. I called place a phone call to Policy immediately after that call. Goodbye Matt!
Ugly: McManus!! When every other kicker is making incredibly long FG’s he craps the bed when the FG before halftime probably saves the game.
My pastor is a bears fan and opened the service talking about the bears win.
Can’t get away from this loss—even at church.
Goodbye LaFluer!!
Go Packers!!!

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EricTorkelson's picture

January 11, 2026 at 02:48 pm

He was praising his lord

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Starrbrite's picture

January 11, 2026 at 05:02 pm

Right Erik—lol. I think he’s a satanist behind closed doors—tsk tsk

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Packerlifer's picture

January 11, 2026 at 10:24 pm

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EricTorkelson's picture

January 11, 2026 at 01:39 pm

The Great ... Romeo Doubs did what he could do to make amends from his on side kick fiasco
The Good ... Love played well in the first half and then came his Bombs away strategy
The Bad ... MLF said at his presser he did nothing different in the second half ... That is exactly it didn't he realize Bears coach Johnson was going to change his approach maybe a stack the DL line and blitz Love approach wasn't there a backup plan to anticipate this ?
The Ugly ... Valentine and Nixon are without a doubt the two dumbest CBs the Packers ever started and lets not forget the Packers hold your breath ... STs and there kicker

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Major Snafu's picture

January 11, 2026 at 07:37 pm

Love sat and watched Rodgers and decided to copy him throwing the bomb. Problem, Rodgers was smart and quick minded, he could see whomever streaking down field. Love is tossing bombs to guys completely covered. Ya not to bright.
That's our problem he ain't too bright. He is mentally slow on the uptake.

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bjkdad44's picture

January 12, 2026 at 07:31 pm

Agree on the cornerback situation!!

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egbertsouse's picture

January 11, 2026 at 02:33 pm

Ugly: That little Matty Flower still has a job today.

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albert999's picture

January 11, 2026 at 02:52 pm

Lasewer
I agree….policy needs to create a new POLICY in greenbay

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GVPacker's picture

January 11, 2026 at 03:14 pm

The Good...This Nightmare Of A Season Is Over!
The Bad...... Special Teams Cost The Packers A Game!
The Ugly...... The Very Real Possibility Matt Lafleur Will Still Be Coaching The Packers Next Season!

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GBPfaninMO's picture

January 11, 2026 at 04:26 pm

You said a mouthful brother

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GBPfaninMO's picture

January 11, 2026 at 04:24 pm

Good Mathew Golden BAD how I felt after this game UGLY MLF continuing to be the HC

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Norm's picture

January 11, 2026 at 04:42 pm

Anyone else realize our last offensive snap against the Bears in the two losses included a fumble/bobble by the QB? With two different QBs and two different centers. Ruined any chance we might have had to pull out either game.

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albert999's picture

January 11, 2026 at 05:14 pm

UNREAL

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albert999's picture

January 11, 2026 at 05:14 pm

Pathetic really

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albert999's picture

January 11, 2026 at 05:15 pm

Lasewer has to go or fuck policy and our policy or that there lack of

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GreenandBold's picture

January 11, 2026 at 08:30 pm

It’s hard to beat the Pope . And he obviously has blessed the Bears this season . How else can you explain all of these come from behind comebacks . He must have NFL Ticket . Maybe he’ll put some smoke out while we look for a new Head Coach .

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the_gavia_pass's picture

January 12, 2026 at 02:46 am

the good: nothing.
the bad: the whole packers organization.
the ugly: the whole packers media world, 15 years as servants of the packers organization.

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badaxed's picture

January 12, 2026 at 12:34 pm

the good: Rumors that Matt Lafleur will be fired.
the bad: Lafleur may be retained as HC
the ugly: they retain Lafleur

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