PACKERS FALL 20-17 IN THE FINAL MINUTES

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Hey now! Come on!

Laugh if you will, but I'm sure the silence was deafening in the visitor's locker-room after the final whistle in last night's prime-time 20-17 loss to the Chicago Bears. 18 penalty flags. 152 penalty yards. To be frank, I've seen cleaner pee-wee games. But this isn't the Tiny Football League. This is the NFL, where the best of the best come to play. I'll spare you the profane tongue I lashed during last night's embarrassment, but I assume coach McCarthy did not offer his players that same courtesy. The Packers are no longer the youngest team in the league, but you wouldn't know it by watching them. The offense could only watch in frustration as their sharpest drives were knee-capped by penalties. Likewise the defensive was seeing yellow during their most important plays. The Packers did prove that they are better than the Bears in most phases of the game last night, but when giving up one and a half football-field-lengths in penalty yards, the result is a loss every time. The Special teams arrow definitely went to the Bears, as Packer's punter Tim Masthay broke the "don't kick to Devin Hester" rule and paid for it to the tune of Hester's 8th career TD return. If it weren't for penalties, the packers would have surely pulled away in the 3rd quarter as predicted, scoring at least 10 more points. However, if "ifs" and "buts" were... Yeah, you get it. Just disgusting.

I've got to let this one sink in longer before I say anything more. Boo.