I love how the bears always seem to have a decent running back. Never fails. Good defense, 1 good receiver, shit QB and a reliable rb. The bears formula.
@@ILLini61607 thank god for all the draft capital and cap space and for fields. andy dalton with that team we beat the texans and thats it and the rest of the games are blow outs instead of the close fun ones with fields. 1-16. our bears got a bright furtre just sucks that the rest of chicago sports are trash rn. cubs are looking fairly good though i think they win a playoff series or two before a NLCS exit
They had a tremendous receiving core that year; Not just one guy. Rasheed Davis, Muhsin Muhammad, Bernard Berian and mark Bradley were all killing it. Not to mention Greg Olsen and Desmond Clark at tight end. It was ultimately Rex Grossman’s horrible inconsistency, lack of accuracy and boneheaded clumsiness that lost them the superbowl imo.
@@Tr-fj4hr I wouldn't call it tremendous bud. You can say any receiving core is good and blame the quarterback. I just looked at the stats that year. You might want to too
@@geminiman7791 crap, you're right. I remember a few years back they were planning to narrow them and that was the last I heard of that. Thanks for the correction
God I miss Thomas Jones. Drafting Cedric Bumson was literally the biggest slap in the face to every single person who's ever rooted for the orange and blue.
What Lance Briggs did in this game he did his entire career. He was the most clutch tackler we had during that era, and he was the best I've seen at getting into the backfield and making tackles for losses. Briggs should be in the HOF.
Forgot how good of an arm Grossman had. That Berrian pass was spot on. If only he wasn't so streaky. As someone else mentioned, Good Rex/Bad Rex... went hand in hand. Too bad that bad Rex showed up in the Super Bowl.
Never forget grant WISTROM. If I'm not mistaking we got him from the rams. But he led the league in sacks one of those years with us. He had like 19 or some crazy amount
Why is everybody commenting “you forget grossman actually showed flashes”. Like what? Isn’t that what he was famous for? Throwing for 400 yards one week and 6 picks the next? Good Rex/Bad Rex? I didn’t think it was commonly believed that Grossman flat out sucked, cuz he didnt
Anony Moose while that’s true, grossman was known for sometimes having level headed games, that’s after all why he kept starting, if it was all “bad Rex” he would have been benched for Griese. But the upside of “good Rex” was very tantalizing. However I’ll concede that his decision making was still shit even in his good games.
you say throwing 400 yards one week and 6 picks the next if you watched the bears that year he had 0 300 yard passing games in the regular season so i have no clue what youre talking about...
@@pokemonfan155 The issue with Grossman was that he had seven games with passer ratings above 100, but also five games with ratings below 40, including a 10.2, 1.3, and 0.0. Keep in mind that the league's top passer that year was Peyton Manning at 101.0, so a 100 passer rating in a game that year was still considered a good performance. Heading up to the Arizona game, he looked like a QB who could lead the Bears to a title seeing how good the defense, special teams, and running game were. Grossman turned out to be a less-talented version of Jay Cutler.
@@mrmacross no ok that I was just pointing out the fact that his flashes weren't these 400 yard games but more so games where he had good ball control and didn't turn it over it was 1 game 400 yards 3 tds then next 100 with 0 tds and 2 it's he didn't have that high highs
Grossman had some physical shortcomings, but he was pretty good reading defenses, scanning his targets and standing tall in the pocket. Of course, it’s helpful to have a line that can block somebody
I remember this game. The Saints kept saying they hope the Seahawks would win so they can host the NFC Championship game at home and not have to travel to cold and snowy Chicago and face the #1 seeded Bears.
I remember watching this when I was 8 and going in my room and crying when the Seahawks lost. Then my dad walked in and gave me a folder with Shaun Alexander on the cover. Shaun moved depending on the angle you held the folder at so it looked like he was actually running. It definitely cheered me up a bit. Props to my dad.
This is a very underrated NFC Championship game... Not to many talk about this game often, which is a shame, because this was a very good game, a very physical game also, if John Madden was calling it he'd be talking about how smash mouth it was, and it absolutely was
Say what you want about _"R/x"_ Grossman, but he could sling it. Not always accurately... but he had one of the quickest releases - even on deep bombs - that I had ever seen.
Pepe say Seahawk fans were 12 bandwagons but they were a playoff regulate for years in the 2000s. Their stadium was always incredibly loud. I'm so sick of people calling canvases bandwagons to discredit their accomplishments.
Seems like this bears team was a lifetime ago. I feel bad for bears fans y’all had a ridiculous defense and playmakers like Devin Hester, yet y’all could never find a real franchise QB and out all the pieces together to win a ring 😢
I was going to criticize the Seahawks for calling a rollout pass play with Hasselbeck on 3rd and 1, but then I saw what happened on the next drive when Alexander was stuffed runninf on 3rd and 1 and 4th and 1
I was actually at this game with my mom who is a Bears fan Hoping to see my Seahawks beat the Bears but Chicago won in OT and I was crying after the Game, I vowed NEVER to go back to that Stadium, I didn't even watch Superbowl 41, thank God for The Colts who beat Da Bears
It’s almost a curse to be a great HB after Walter in Chicago. Forte, Jones, Anderson, none given their proper due. Sweetness had that issue initially being compared to Sayers til he far surpassed him.
Hidden gem. I vividly remember this game on a Saturday afternoon as Gould ended our season. Man,I was in NO CONDITION going to work after this game. Felt discouraged. Lol!!!
@@chewyyo3383 Gould didn't allow Seattle appearing in back to back NFCCGS. 😐. This game was the wk after the Romo botched play at Qwest. #neverforget. Lol!!!!
@@jhupp8707 Ya but did a whole lot better than Trubisky and Cutler have been for you, i'd think you bears fans would appreciate the only guy besides mcmahon to lead you to a super bowl considering the bad luck you have at the position
“Lead” us to a super bowl LOL that’s funny. Not like they had the best defense and special teams in the nfl that year. What a joke of a comment that is. He had 7 turnovers in that post season he “led” us to the super bowl on btw
God bless every single one of you ❤️❤️✝️
I love how the bears always seem to have a decent running back. Never fails. Good defense, 1 good receiver, shit QB and a reliable rb. The bears formula.
Now we have none of those things. lol
@@ILLini61607 thank god for all the draft capital and cap space and for fields. andy dalton with that team we beat the texans and thats it and the rest of the games are blow outs instead of the close fun ones with fields. 1-16. our bears got a bright furtre just sucks that the rest of chicago sports are trash rn. cubs are looking fairly good though i think they win a playoff series or two before a NLCS exit
They had a tremendous receiving core that year; Not just one guy. Rasheed Davis, Muhsin Muhammad, Bernard Berian and mark Bradley were all killing it. Not to mention Greg Olsen and Desmond Clark at tight end. It was ultimately Rex Grossman’s horrible inconsistency, lack of accuracy and boneheaded clumsiness that lost them the superbowl imo.
@@Tr-fj4hr I wouldn't call it tremendous bud. You can say any receiving core is good and blame the quarterback. I just looked at the stats that year. You might want to too
@@Tr-fj4hr I do agre3 that Rex was our Achilles heel
Remember this game like yesterday it was on my Bday 🐻👇🏾
Memories
Good times
I'm not crying, WE'RE crying 😭😭😭😭😭
I miss this
I still remember the newspaper headline the next day "Good as Gould"
yea, i was gonna comment this, but had to see if someone else already did.
@@gratefulaya192 I still have the paper clip laminated... lol
That’s a fire headline lol
Why did they trade him smh
Make me feel old..I do remember Sun-Times reading that .or the tribune
GOOD AS GOULD! 🐻⬇️
I like these unis over the current unis
When kickers could kick field goals
I mean, they narrowed the goal posts, which is why it's some what harder now
愛Lucky where did you hear that lmao? They didn’t. It may look narrower because in 2013 they extended the height on the post by like 10 feet
TRU
@@geminiman7791 crap, you're right. I remember a few years back they were planning to narrow them and that was the last I heard of that. Thanks for the correction
Gould still a solid kicker Chicago weak for ever releasing him.
I miss these Bears.
That defense was special
God I miss Thomas Jones. Drafting Cedric Bumson was literally the biggest slap in the face to every single person who's ever rooted for the orange and blue.
Legend has it, Tim Duncan delayed a team flight this night to watch overtime of this game
6:05 Grossman just casually flicking a ball 55 yards off his back foot holy shit
Rex Grossman was some sort of Brett Favre lab experiment gone horribly wrong. Small hands.
What Lance Briggs did in this game he did his entire career. He was the most clutch tackler we had during that era, and he was the best I've seen at getting into the backfield and making tackles for losses. Briggs should be in the HOF.
Amen, the dude was SOLID.
Russell Wilson looking at old Seahawks Oline reel and is like "can I get some of that please?"
LMMFAO!!
@ matthew: LMAO!!!!
It wouldnt be fair to give Russel Wilson Steve Hutchinson and Walter Jones.
@@cameronmcfarrin4587 Steve Hutchinson wasn't even on this team, he had left for Minnesota already
7:50 like when they just quit mid play 😂 🗑
Not a seahawk fan but i miss these seahawk uniforms.
Thomas Jones is the real mvp. Especially after he knocked the ball away from the lineman. Unseen work ethic.
What a game for Thomas Jones and rex
Former league MVP, Shaun Alexander! #BuiltByBama
I still like Grossman and T Jones was a savage. Magical year for Bears fans that landed a little short in the end
Always liked Thomas Jones’ game. He wanted to win a super bowl and he showed it in this playoff run.
One of the more overlooked players of the 2000’s. Had a lot of good years for multiple teams
but rex grossman ruined that for him.
Amen
Everyone showed it but the qb
One of the only Lovie mistakes was giving Cedd Ben(RIP) the ball in the SB when TJ was killing it!!!!!!
So nostalgic.
I fucken miss Robbie Gould .Maybe if we had him last yr we would have made the super bowl!!😭
ty for this one
Green bay & the bears were our fucking rivals in the hassleback era when it came to wild card rounds
Soldier field went nuts when that ball went thru the uprights
RIP Cedric Benson
“I wonder what’s longer? 3/8 1/2 or 5/8” -Joe Buck
Either that was a botched attempt at humor or Joe Buck's not very good at math.
He's a fucking dumbfuck
i can't stand Joe Fuck, I mean Buck
Mitchell.....Mitchell....Mitchell
I still don't understand why everyone hates Joe Buck.
Yo that sac he knocks the ball out that was smart.
Just skip to 8:57
Following behind big Ruben brown
Here to remind myself how good we used to be
Grossman showed flashes of why the Bears liked him.
Unfortunately, he also showed flashes of why the opposing defenses liked him too 😁
True😂😂😂
Sean Alexander deserves a gold jacket
Grossman crazy arm .
Forgot how good of an arm Grossman had. That Berrian pass was spot on. If only he wasn't so streaky. As someone else mentioned, Good Rex/Bad Rex... went hand in hand. Too bad that bad Rex showed up in the Super Bowl.
Bring back those Hawks jerseys
Never forget grant WISTROM. If I'm not mistaking we got him from the rams. But he led the league in sacks one of those years with us. He had like 19 or some crazy amount
Grossman had an arm. I wish Tru could throw that kind of deep ball
Rich Lo he can did you watch the Pats game threw a 60 yard bomb with a dude right in his face and came one yard from tying the game
Rex Grossman's best throw of his career to Berrian.
Why is everybody commenting “you forget grossman actually showed flashes”. Like what? Isn’t that what he was famous for? Throwing for 400 yards one week and 6 picks the next? Good Rex/Bad Rex? I didn’t think it was commonly believed that Grossman flat out sucked, cuz he didnt
Anony Moose while that’s true, grossman was known for sometimes having level headed games, that’s after all why he kept starting, if it was all “bad Rex” he would have been benched for Griese. But the upside of “good Rex” was very tantalizing. However I’ll concede that his decision making was still shit even in his good games.
you say throwing 400 yards one week and 6 picks the next
if you watched the bears that year he had 0 300 yard passing games in the regular season so i have no clue what youre talking about...
@@pokemonfan155 The issue with Grossman was that he had seven games with passer ratings above 100, but also five games with ratings below 40, including a 10.2, 1.3, and 0.0. Keep in mind that the league's top passer that year was Peyton Manning at 101.0, so a 100 passer rating in a game that year was still considered a good performance. Heading up to the Arizona game, he looked like a QB who could lead the Bears to a title seeing how good the defense, special teams, and running game were.
Grossman turned out to be a less-talented version of Jay Cutler.
@@mrmacross no ok that I was just pointing out the fact that his flashes weren't these 400 yard games but more so games where he had good ball control and didn't turn it over it was 1 game 400 yards 3 tds then next 100 with 0 tds and 2 it's he didn't have that high highs
@@mrmacross while Jay Culter can't bring the team to higher level than very-good/under-average Rex.
Reigning NFC champion vs future NFC champion
Dude the days of Good Rex/Bad Rex was so insane, he was the total 50/50 quarterback, never knew what you were gonna eat
Grossman had some physical shortcomings, but he was pretty good reading defenses, scanning his targets and standing tall in the pocket. Of course, it’s helpful to have a line that can block somebody
I remember this game. The Saints kept saying they hope the Seahawks would win so they can host the NFC Championship game at home and not have to travel to cold and snowy Chicago and face the #1 seeded Bears.
History will repeat itself
I remember watching this when I was 8 and going in my room and crying when the Seahawks lost. Then my dad walked in and gave me a folder with Shaun Alexander on the cover. Shaun moved depending on the angle you held the folder at so it looked like he was actually running. It definitely cheered me up a bit. Props to my dad.
Good times.
Hasselbeck always threw back breaking interceptions
This is a very underrated NFC Championship game... Not to many talk about this game often, which is a shame, because this was a very good game, a very physical game also, if John Madden was calling it he'd be talking about how smash mouth it was, and it absolutely was
It was divisional bus
Bud
Wasnt that the year the bears went up against the colts in the super bowl?
Yes it was.
Say what you want about _"R/x"_ Grossman, but he could sling it. Not always accurately... but he had one of the quickest releases - even on deep bombs - that I had ever seen.
Pepe say Seahawk fans were 12 bandwagons but they were a playoff regulate for years in the 2000s. Their stadium was always incredibly loud. I'm so sick of people calling canvases bandwagons to discredit their accomplishments.
Shaun Alexander made it look so easy
*YES, THANK YOU FOR ODDLY RECOMMENDING THIS TO ME TH-cam! I recall watching this game in Philly*
man remember when teams used to run on 3rd and 3?
I will never forget Shaun Alexander’s 2005 season. One of the most entertaining backs to ever play.
Chicago scored THIRTY-FOUR non-offensive touchdowns from 2004-2009. That’s almost one every other game.
I forgot this game went into OT, man i love this channel for bringing back classics such as this
I Completely forgot too
Seems like this bears team was a lifetime ago. I feel bad for bears fans y’all had a ridiculous defense and playmakers like Devin Hester, yet y’all could never find a real franchise QB and out all the pieces together to win a ring 😢
Its quite spectacular how different offenses look now. So much spread formation.
Back then? Pure pro style dropback offense
I forgot how far Grossman could throw the ball and how effortlessly he made it look.
Into the defenders arms...
4:52 look at the Seahawks all star O-line. The holes were 10 feet wide for Alexander!!
They had just traded their best LG before the season started too.
I was going to criticize the Seahawks for calling a rollout pass play with Hasselbeck on 3rd and 1, but then I saw what happened on the next drive when Alexander was stuffed runninf on 3rd and 1 and 4th and 1
THAT is how you edit a game for re-watching.
Still remember this contest as if it were just yesterday.
I was actually at this game with my mom who is a Bears fan
Hoping to see my Seahawks beat the Bears but Chicago won in OT and I was crying after the Game, I vowed NEVER to go back to that Stadium, I didn't even watch Superbowl 41, thank God for The Colts who beat Da Bears
BEAR DOWN. 2006 NFC CHAMPIONS.
this the game after the romo fumbled snap?
7:47 Man, the great Walter Jones really fucked up there, he is just standing around doing nothing as Tank Johnson goes right at Hasselbeck lol
Facts. Real big fuck up right there.
Injuries messed Shaun Alexander up but he was a good running back.
Back in the day... when the NFL had real running backs
Allan what’s that supposed to mean
like now?
So true
guy 1 they’re passing backs now not running backs
Darrell Jackson was so underrated
It’s almost a curse to be a great HB after Walter in Chicago. Forte, Jones, Anderson, none given their proper due. Sweetness had that issue initially being compared to Sayers til he far surpassed him.
Thomas Jones was dat dude!
If the bears had anyone else besides Grossman at quarterback they would have won the superbowl in 2006
John Johnson my 8 year old niece could have won the super with the team Chicago had
Dae Dotfan19 the bears lost to the colts in the Super Bowl
Look like to me that Grossman had a good game that day what the hell happened in the Superbowl game
@Dae Dotfan19 Bro. Find a period. Or a comma. Can't understand you at all.
Oh such nostalgia, still remember watching it on the old small TV in the basement. Still wish they won the Super Bowl though...............
5:37 that. That right there is what kept the bears brim a super bowl win. A fucking shitty qb
I was at this game.
I was at this game
GD I love this 06 Bears team. People have forgotten about Shaun Alexander, that was a bad man.
This the Chicago Bears first playoff win since the passing of Walter Payton in 1999.
2006 Seattle Seahawks 9-7
2006 Chicago Bears
What a great game
Man I loved this era of Bears football. These guys loved playing for Lovie Smith.
Thomas Jones was on p valley 😂
Bernard Berrian may be my favorite Bears WR of my lifetime. The dude was so much fun to watch go deep and had underrated hands
the bears teams around this time were really fun
Is it me or do these Rex Grossman highlights look better than anything Mitch Trubisky has done so far with the Bears?
Rex was always very hot and cold, under a good oline and run game that could hide his flaws. I'd take trubs consistent mediocrity any day.
That Seahawks line with Walter Jones and Steve Hutchinson was unbelievable
Thomas Jones underrated Bear
I definitely do not miss Gross Man
Hey I’m a die hard Bears fan & I gotta say that Rex Grossman didn’t look that bad this game he look better than Trubisky that’s for sure!
Grossman's deep ball is what makes him look better than Mitch, for sure..
Shaun Alexander the original beast mode
Hidden gem. I vividly remember this game on a Saturday afternoon as Gould ended our season. Man,I was in NO CONDITION going to work after this game. Felt discouraged. Lol!!!
Marc Amico i thought we was going to the super bowl again this year but Gould didn’t let us :(
@@chewyyo3383 Gould didn't allow Seattle appearing in back to back NFCCGS. 😐. This game was the wk after the Romo botched play at Qwest. #neverforget. Lol!!!!
Marc Amico I never will forget, just like how I will never about super bowl XL 😩
Cedric Benson 😢
I firmly believe if lovie would have pulled Grossman for Orton we would have won it all in 06
On 3rd and 10 and you hand it to a running back and he scores that guy is a Hall of famer
You forget but Rex could throw the ball and looked like a real quarterback at times.
Sam Soltwisch yeah like 20% of the time and his lows were complete incompetence easily the worst qb to play in a Super Bowl
@@jhupp8707 Ya but did a whole lot better than Trubisky and Cutler have been for you, i'd think you bears fans would appreciate the only guy besides mcmahon to lead you to a super bowl considering the bad luck you have at the position
@@jhupp8707 Jeff Hostetler, Trent Dilfer ?
“Lead” us to a super bowl LOL that’s funny. Not like they had the best defense and special teams in the nfl that year. What a joke of a comment that is. He had 7 turnovers in that post season he “led” us to the super bowl on btw
@J Hupp Rex had 7 games where he had a QB rating of at least 100 that year. He had his moments where played well, he was just really inconsistent.
OT coin toss
Hasselbeck: we’re gonna score.... oh wait i already said that a couple years ago. Nevermind.