Hometown Broadcasting Sports Monday 12/16/19
16 December 2019 Sports
Aaron Jones ran for two scores, Davante Adams caught another and the Green Bay Packers defeated the Chicago Bears 21-13 on Sunday in the 200th edition of he NFL’s oldest rivalry. With the Dallas Cowboys 44-21 win against the Los Angeles Rams, the Packers clinched a playoff berth. Packers Head Coach Matt LaFleur becomes the first rookie head coach in franchise history to make the playoffs. The Packers (11-3) swept the regular-season series between the teams for the 15th time in the last 26 seasons and the seventh time in the last 11 seasons. Green Bay defeated Chicago 10-3 in the season opener. Green Bay now leads the all-time series 99-95-6. The Bears saw their three-game win streak end. The Packers improved to 19-5 against their NFC North rival with Rodgers as the starting quarterback. Rodgers completed just 16 of 33 passes for a pedestrian 203 yards but did enough to secure the victory. The two-time MVP entered the day with a 103.2 career passer rating against the Bears, the highest in league history of quarterbacks with at least 250 passes against Chicago. He had a 78.2 rating on Sunday. Mitchell Trubisky completed his first five pass attempts for the Bears (7-7) but for only 18 yards. Chicago’s offense opened the game with three straight punts and a turnover on downs. Trubisky finished 28 of 53 for 321 yards, a touchdown and two interceptions.
The Packers got on the board first on a 29-yard strike from Rodgers to Davante Adams in the first quarter. Adams beat Buster Skrine off the line for his fourth touchdown in the last four weeks. Adams finished with 103 yards on seven catches. Eddy Piñeiro knocked in a 30-yard field goal late in the first half for the Bears.
The Packers opened the second half with an impressive five-play, 73-yard drive that featured a 34-yard reception to Adams, a season-long 17-yard scamper by Rodgers, and a 21-yard touchdown run by Aaron Jones, his 13th TD of the season. After another stalled possession by Chicago, Rodgers and Jake Kumerow linked up for a 49-yard gain, Kumerow’s longest reception of the season. The play helped set up another score for Jones from 2 yards and the Packers took a commanding 21-3 lead in the third quarter.Piñeiro added a 27-yard field goal at the start of the fourth and Trubisky found Anthony Miller for a 2-yard score to cut it to 21-13 with 8:09 to go. Miller had nine catches for 118 yards and the score. Defensive lineman Dean Lowry picked off Trubisky with 6:33 left, Lowry’s first career interception. Kenny Clark had two sacks and Rashan Gary had another for the Packers. Nick Kwiatkoski had the lone sack for Chicago. Allen Robinson had seven catches for 125 yards for the Bears. The Packers play at Minnesota next Monday night.
Elsewhere in the NFC North, the Vikings beat the Chargers 39-10 in Los Angeles and Tampa Bay won at Detroit, 38-17. Last night, Buffalo won at Pittsburgh, 17-10. Tonight, Indianapolis plays at New Orleans.
The Green Bay Packers former head coach Vince Lombardi is part of elite company. Lombardi was selected as one of the 10 coaches on the NFL 100 All-Time team. He led the team to three NFL championships and victories in Super Bowl I and II.
In the NBA tonight, Dallas plays at Milwaukee. The Bucks have won 18 games in-a-row.
The Wisconsin Herd won in triple overtime Saturday night over Canton, 130-127. Without the services of Frank Mason, the Herd were led by Rayjon Tucker who tallied his second career 30-point game and poured in a season-high 36 points to go with six
rebounds, three assists and season-high four steals. Jaylen Adams collected his
fifth consecutive 20-point game and posted 22 points, six rebounds, five assists and two steals, while Cameron Reynolds totaled 20 points and eight rebounds. Luke Maye notched his third career double-double and registered a stat line of 14 points, 11 rebounds, three assists and two steals, and Jemerrio Jones recorded his sixth double-digit scoring effort and team-high fifth double-double of the season (13 points, 16 rebounds). Brandon McCoy scored in double figures for the fourth time in
his last five games and pitched in with 13 points and four rebounds off the bench. With the win, Wisconsin remains atop the Eastern Conference and owns a three-game
lead over the Delaware Blue Coats. Additionally, the Herd are now 6-3 all-time
against Canton, including 3-2 on the road.
Wisconsin will wrap its mini two-game road trip with another contest against a division rival on Monday night.
In men’s college basketball on Saturday, U.W Stevens Point beat Ripon College, 72-49.
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