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“Some guys aren’t used to this, and he’s one of them,” Meyer said. “But he’s fantastic and we have a fantastic relationship. Marvin looked at me. He walked by [Saturday] when I saw something on TV, like a heated argument, and he goes, ‘I guess we’re not allowed to talk anymore, are we,’ and started laughing about it. So there’s nothing.”
“That’s a tough spot for Tev,” Fields said. “I know he wanted to play great today. The sack he gave up, I just told him, ‘Look, it’s your first game. Prime time, Sunday night. You’re a rookie, first-ever playing time right now. Of course you’re going to make mistakes. You have to go in there knowing you’re going to make mistakes and just learn from them and make sure they don’t happen again.’
The Packers marched 75 yards in nine plays to open the second half, taking the lead for good on Aaron Jones’ 3-yard touchdown run. The Packers didn’t face a single third down on that series. A minute later, Jones was in the end zone again, this time on a 23-yard pass from Aaron Rodgers. Sandwiched in between was a Preston Smith strip-sack of Fields from the blind side.
Photos from the Week 14 game at Lambeau Field between the Chicago Bears and Green Bay Packers on Dec. 12, 2021.*configurations:cover-slide(true),cover-slide-title(Title text goes here),cover-slide-label(Photos) (Brian Cassella, Chris Sweda) Chicago Bears wide receiver Allen Robinson warms up to face the Green Bay Packers. (Brian Cassella / Chicago Tribune) Chicago Bears players run onto the field to warm up before playing the Green Bay Packers. (Brian Cassella / Chicago Tribune) Chicago Bears quarterback Justin Fields warms up alongside quarterback Nick Foles. (Brian Cassella / Chicago Tribune) Chicago Bears fans come with a naughty list as they arrive to see their team face the Green Bay Packers. (Brian Cassella / Chicago Tribune) Chicago Bears quarterback Nick Foles warms up before the game. (Brian Cassella / Chicago Tribune) A Green Bay Packers fan arrives at Lambeau Field. (Chris Sweda / Chicago Tribune) Green Bay Packers super fan Jeff Kahlow of Fond du Lac waits to enter Lambeau Field for a game between the Packers and the Chicago Bears. (Chris Sweda / Chicago Tribune) Chicago Bears tight end Cole Kmet greets fans before the game. (Brian Cassella / Chicago Tribune) Green Bay Packers fans tailgate at a home beside Lambeau Field. (Chris Sweda / Chicago Tribune) Chicago Bears fan Jordan Brendemuehl of Racine jokes around beside Green Bay Packers super fan Jeff Kahlow, left, of Fond du Lac, as people wait to enter Lambeau Field. (Chris Sweda / Chicago Tribune) Chicago Bears quarterback Justin Fields takes the field before facing the Green Bay Packers. (Brian Cassella / Chicago Tribune) Chicago Bears fans wearing Justin Fields jerseys watch as the buses transporting Bears players and coaches arrive at Lambeau Field. (Chris Sweda / Chicago Tribune)
“We’ve got a lot of guys sitting home with no symptoms right now,” Donovan said. “That’s obviously a good thing, too, because I think when guys have gone through a little difficulty of getting really, really sick, it’s really made it a lot harder for them coming back. So we do have some guys that have felt under the weather, we have some guys that have very, very mild symptoms and some guys who just don’t have any.”
“I understand both sides of it,” Spoelstra said. “It is tough. There’s not like easy decisions by the league, by us, by the Players’ Association. These are tough decisions. We just have to continue to try to be vigilant as much as possible, be responsible, do what we can do and then see if this can take a different course than necessarily last year.”
“I saw this guy in an interview today and I was falling asleep watching it,” Milbury said. “If anybody thinks this guy can coach an NHL team, they’re nuts. As I had him as a player, he was laconic, lazy, whatever you want to call it, even if he has some talent.
“I never really cared about it,” he said. “When you’re a kid and you’re playing ball around the house, you’re not playing ball because you’re thinking of the Hall of Fame. You’re thinking of making it to the major leagues. The big leagues. First things first. I really don’t get it. To me, that’s all (up to) the voting. After all is said and done, it’s what people thought of you after you leave. And after I left, it was only what the sports writers thought of me, not what people thought of me.”
“When you look at it that way and you say you lost this many heading into the end of it, I think what we need to do as a staff is we’ve got to say, ‘Why is that? Where is it? And how do we get better?’” Nagy said. “Every year is different, and you look at this right now, and I think identity-wise as an offense, you guys could see we felt like we created an identity. But how do we learn from that? Well, part of it is you see that in games like today, no matter what your identity is, you’ve always got to be able to run the football. You have to be able to do that.
“(A win) would be everything,” said defensive lineman Akiem Hicks, who won’t play Saturday because of a lingering ankle injury. “It would recharge our season. The things that have happened we can’t take back. We can’t change the outcome of the games that we’ve played thus far. But it says something about a person, it says something about a team about how you finish. And how you play those games that are supposed to mean the most. And so that would be everything for us to go out here and get a W this weekend.”