Zachary GirsbergerHanie’s Heroics not Enough, Packers Advance to the Super Bowl
January 23rd 2011 23:18
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All week I heard that this NFC championship would come down to the play of the quarterbacks, and it would be a one score game—and I had no disagreements there—but I think if you told anyone that the Bears were bringing in their third-string QB in the third quarter, they would have told you that the game was doomed to be a Green Bay blowout. Not this game, not this story, the Bear’s Hanie played better than one of the top five quarterbacks in the game (hard as that is for me to admit), his own teams starter and backup, and showed more grit and skill than I think any would have expected out of the undrafted QB out of Colorado State. Hanie was not perfect, as evidenced by his pick-six he threw to Raji, but he played well enough to keep the Bears in it, through the fourth quarter. I don’t even blame Hanie for the last minute interception he threw, as the wide receiver reverse called the play before was horrendous and put Hanie in a position to need to force a throw on fourth down.
The Green Bay defense played brilliantly most of the game, and even with the falling apart in the fourth quarter, Green Bay defensive coordinator, Dom Capers, deserves serious praise and may be in demand if a team decides to axe their coach in the coming weeks. Whoever comes out of the AFC will have to figure out Capers’ schemes, else the NFC will have their second consecutive Lombardi, and third in four years.
My only complaint through the entirely of the game was the intentional grounding call in the fourth quarter that went against the Bears. There were a few other questionable calls in the game, but they were not in crucial periods of the game, so they could have been overcome far easier than those called late. I was even mildly impressed by the Buck-Aikman play call, and I am one of the biggest detractors of Fox’s number one announcing team.
All in all, the Packers played a more complete game, and will represent the NFC in the Super Bowl with a 21-14 win, and have a huge chance to win it all.
The Green Bay defense played brilliantly most of the game, and even with the falling apart in the fourth quarter, Green Bay defensive coordinator, Dom Capers, deserves serious praise and may be in demand if a team decides to axe their coach in the coming weeks. Whoever comes out of the AFC will have to figure out Capers’ schemes, else the NFC will have their second consecutive Lombardi, and third in four years.
My only complaint through the entirely of the game was the intentional grounding call in the fourth quarter that went against the Bears. There were a few other questionable calls in the game, but they were not in crucial periods of the game, so they could have been overcome far easier than those called late. I was even mildly impressed by the Buck-Aikman play call, and I am one of the biggest detractors of Fox’s number one announcing team.
All in all, the Packers played a more complete game, and will represent the NFC in the Super Bowl with a 21-14 win, and have a huge chance to win it all.
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