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14 years ago
This reminded me how close we came multiple times this year to not making it to the SB. I had forgotten about this play in the NFC Championship game.

Posted on FoxSports...

http://msn.foxsports.com/nfl/story/Same-arm-different-purpose-74893770 

He had the ball under his arm and nothing but brown grass in front of him. This was going to be perhaps the greatest Brian Urlacher highlight of all time. The clip of him returning an Aaron Rodgers interception for a touchdown against the Green Bay Packers in perhaps the most anticipated game in Bears history would be replayed forevermore.

The only thing between the Bears' iconic middle linebacker and the end zone was Rodgers himself. It was a mismatch if there ever was one. Then Urlacher tried to cut back, only to find Rodgers getting an arm on him, tripping him and sending him crashing down after a 39-yard return. Rodgers passed for 244 yards and ran for a touchdown in the Packers 21-14 win over the Bears in Sunday's NFC Championship Game at Soldier Field. But his biggest play may have been that potentially game-saving tackle. ''He threw it at me,'' Urlacher said. ''I don't know if he didn't see me or what. He threw it at me and tackled me. That's what I saw.'' Urlacher's day paralleled that of the Bears. He, like his defensive mates, missed some tackles early, which contributed to the Packers jumping out to a 14-point lead. He played his best football after that, however, helping set the stage for a frantic rally that fell short when third-string quarterback Caleb Hanie was intercepted by cornerback Sam Shields with 37 seconds left. Urlacher finished with a sack, an interception and 10 tackles. It was a typical performance for him in a comeback season during which he proved he still ranks among the NFL's elite linebackers after missing all but the season opener in 2009 with a wrist injury. In the end, however, it wasn't good enough. ''It's a disappointing way to end the season,'' he said. ''It's not the way I wanted to end it. But you know, no one expected us to be here. We know that. It doesn't make it any easier for us to lose this game. We expected to win this game. We expected to play good. We just made too many mistakes. Give them all the credit. They made us make the mistakes. They played better than we did.'' The Packers gashed the Bears on their opening possession, ripping off big chunks of yardage during a seven-play, 84-yard drive capped by Rodgers' 1-yard run. The Bears allowed another touchdown early in the second quarter and shut the prolific Packers offense out after that. Cornerback Tim Jennings said they were more aggressive defensively in the second half, playing more man-to-man and trying to put more pressure on Rodgers in order to make him move in the pocket and get rid of the ball more quickly. Urlacher had a more simple explanation. ''We just hunkered down,'' he said of what changed in the second half. ''Guys got off the line. We got takeaways, we got pressure on them and played how we play.'' Rodgers said he endured a lot of ribbing from his teammates after trying and failing to tackle Bears cornerback Charles Tillman after his diving interception in Week 17. In this case, he sprinted after Urlacher as soon as he made what he described as a ''terrible throw'' intended for Donald Driver. Urlacher had stepped in front of the pass at the 6. Rodgers said he immediately knew how important it was to find some way to prevent Urlacher from scoring. As it turned out, Bears backup quarterback Todd Collins was intercepted on the next possession. ''I don't get paid to tackle,'' Rodgers said. ''But it was probably one of my better plays of the day.''

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Nonstopdrivel
14 years ago
Whoa, is FoxSports not familiar with the word "paragraph"?

I have to admit that play puzzles me. Every time I watch it, I don't understand how Rodgers' contact was enough to actually bring Urlacher to the ground. It always looks to me like Urlacher tripped himself up and Rodgers was lucky to get a hand on him.

However it happened, it's ludky for us that contact occurred. 😃
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Zero2Cool
14 years ago

Whoa, is FoxSports not familiar with the word "paragraph"?

I have to admit that play puzzles me. Every time I watch it, I don't understand how Rodgers' contact was enough to actually bring Urlacher to the ground. It always looks to me like Urlacher tripped himself up and Rodgers was lucky to get a hand on him.

However it happened, it's ludky for us that contact occurred. :D

"Nonstopdrivel" wrote:

Whoa, that's ludky!
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peteralan71
14 years ago
Regardless, it happened, and we capitalized on it like we did all year long. We did *just enough* to get to the Super Bowl, but then we won it without Woodson, Driver, and a healthy Shields for the second half.

There are many different times that we could have also won games that we just missed. I don't see many people reporting on that. All that people talk about now is how the Packers shouldn't have made it in, nothing about how we never trailed by more than 7 and never lost by more than 4. We deserved it. The best thing to come out of this when looking back on the season is that we can now say with confidence that ARod and the Packers are able to win tight games and stand up to major adversity.
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Zero2Cool
14 years ago
I think if my uncle had a vagina, then he'd be my aunt, but its a close call.
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DakotaT
14 years ago
Did we learn from that article that Urlacher is clumsy?

I still say football is controlled in Vegas somewhat. We owned Philly, Atlanta, Chicago, and Pittsburgh in those playoff games and they all should have been blowouts. And anybody that claims otherwise is just not very realistic.

Enjoy your North division championship Chicago, I hope you make hats, tshirts and put the year up in your stadium. What a joke. I miss Pgrizz.
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Greg C.
14 years ago

There are many different times that we could have also won games that we just missed. I don't see many people reporting on that. All that people talk about now is how the Packers shouldn't have made it in, nothing about how we never trailed by more than 7 and never lost by more than 4.

"peteralan71" wrote:



Who are all of these people talking about how the Packers shouldn't have made it in? There was the one Peter King article, which was just sort of a lighthearted "what if?" sort of thing. I haven't noticed anybody claiming that the Packers should not have made the playoffs.
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flep
14 years ago

Did we learn from that article that Urlacher is clumsy?

I still say football is controlled in Vegas somewhat. We owned Philly, Atlanta, Chicago, and Pittsburgh in those playoff games and they all should have been blowouts. And anybody that claims otherwise is just not very realistic.

Enjoy your North division championship Chicago, I hope you make hats, tshirts and put the year up in your stadium. What a joke. I miss Pgrizz.

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I love this.

I work with 2 Bears fans and one of them actually came out with.

"We'll be defending our NFC North Division Championship next season"

I just looked at him and said "You can have the North every year, and we'll have the Superbowl"
Formed Merseyside Nighthawks. British Champions 1992. Packer fan for 32 years
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I feel very wrong now!!!!!!!!!
azrunning
14 years ago
I thought urlacher just kind of fell down too even though it looked like he could have maintained his balance. Maybe he was tired.
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Zero2Cool
14 years ago
Rodgers arm hit Urlacher who tried pulling back to avoid the contact and by doing so lost balance and stumbled and dropped.
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