NFC Championship Game Packers @ Bears 1/23 2 p.m, Fox

[WEFFPIM]

You're blind as a bat on the grounding call, Knox and Hester were in the vicinity. The holding call on Chester Taylor was terrible, the helmet to helmet hasn't been called all postseason and Peppers lead with the shoulder and made contact with Rodgers' shoulder first. If that's helmet to helmet then every tackle in the league is.

McCauley's crew blew it on the interception in the first half which should have been overturned and needed Lovie Smith to bail him out on another one. He sucked, no argument about it.

But thanks for being a jag, we really needed one to show up.

Whatever. I'm too elated right now to continue this.

If you are so elated, why come to our board posting B***S*** in the first place?

Now that is the $64 million question. Nothing like a sore winner who's also uneducated. The day jake contributes anything worthwhile on any of these boards will be the first.

[skones]

I'll be the first to admit that I was trashing Cutler all day yesterday, but mostly because he was walking around on the sidelines and kind of looking disinterested. Fox clearly wanted to paint that picture to make some storyline out of it as they never showed him speaking to Hanie. As has been mentioned in this thread, that obviously wasn't the case.

There is no way anyone can dispute the helmet to helmet. Fine if you want to do that with other calls, but anyone who watches this video, sees all the angles, and says that it is NOT helmet to helmet clearly does not know what helmet to helmet is. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aFDaBH_bSR0

Anyways, good season guys.

[Kerb Hohl]

I've been mostly diplomatic in the lead-up of this game, but I will say this regarding the Peppers hit:

Revenge is a dish best served cold. You guys ragged us on our board and over here for that late interference call in the first meeting which if you polled an unbiased crowd would probably say even though Burnett wasn't trying to purposely block the path to the ball...was interference. We were wearing our homer glasses and Burnett probably just lost the ball in the air but still got in the WR's way.

Now flash forward to the NFC Championship game. I don't care what Peppers intent was, he put the crown of his helmet into Rodgers' earhole/cheek. I don't know how else you'd define that even though it was his intent. I'd actually like to go back and see the roughing the passer call the Bears benefited on in the first meeting on Zombo that was a Cutler interception because I believe it was on a very similar hit or it was one of those hand to the head penalties which is even bigger BS because most of the time the guy is trying to bat the ball down.

Anyways, off the top of my head, here is how I remember the calls:

-That pass interference on the pass to James Jones down the sideline was weak. Now, his hand was grabbed at the most critical time, but pretty weak. Didn't end up mattering in the end because Urlacher picked one off shortly after.

-The intentional grounding was BS. Hanie's intent was to "throw it away" but you can't ref those plays on intent. If you asked him, he could have easily said "I was trying to throw it to Hester but missed." Receivers were close enough by.

-The Taylor hold I'm not sure. If I remember right, it looked pretty benign in slow-mo but I believe Bishop was outside of him and was taken down and to the ref it looked like his arm was around him.

EDIT: I found the Zombo one. Skip to the 4:25 mark of clip. Almost exactly the same. I don't like some of these, but as we've seen...that call comes down most of the time. http://www.packers.com/media-center/videos/Packers-vs-Bears-Game-Highlights/fa1339cd-7167-45e7-a2f4-635283bd4b43

[Kerb Hohl]

and Peppers lead with the shoulder and made contact with Rodgers' shoulder first. If that's helmet to helmet then every tackle in the league is.

Ummm, I'd watch Skones' video. The first time Rodgers' shoulder makes contact with anything is when his helmet is coming off from Peppers' helmet drilling it.

As for the Shields' INT, I never saw it hit the ground and never thought it did. I believe they said the "call is confirmed" meaning they were pretty sure they saw that too. Had they said, "the call stands" I believe that means they couldn't be sure the ball hit the ground.

[LUKE23]

The Peppers hit was without a doubt helmet to helmet, unless you haven't followed the NFL this season. I agree the Jennings PI call was BS. The interception was a booth review and a tough angle, so the fact that they called it an INT seems to say they didn't have enough evidence to overturn, but there is no way you can call that a "terrible call" based on what we could see. If anyone can post anything showing the ball moving, feel free. The intentional grounding, there was nobody close to the throw. So I'd say two of the calls were surely right, one surely wrong, and one likely right.