The 2001 Bears reminds me of the 1986 Bears. They both had really good defenses. The quarterback situations was a carousel just like you saw there. When it came playoff time, the offense got exposed because there was no QB to guide them. The Eagles were just a better team just in 1986 when the Redskins defeated the Bears in the playoffs.
This game pretty much disproved my “Eagles made the playoffs because of their division” argument. After beating one team above .500 for most of the season (week 2, Seattle) now they’ve done it back to back weeks.
This game would mark -The last game at Soldier Field before renovation -The first and last playoff game for Dick Jauron as an NFL head coach -The first home playoff game for the Bears since 1991 -The first divisional round win for the Eagles since 1980 -The first road playoff win in Andy Reid’s career
I thought the Bears were going to win this game- monster defense, at home, battle tested (Packers, Bucs, Ravens), won a tougher division, Eagles had lost to a similar team in the divisional round last year (Giants), Chicago had beaten teams Philly lost to (49ers, Cardinals, Washington) But I forgot to factor in Philly’s road record- only an all-time heroic 49er goal line stand prevented an 8-0 (soon to be 9-0) record away from the Vet
The 2001 Packers were a much better team than the 2001 Bears. They beat them both times in the regular season. We should have won the Central, but we had some dumb losses against the Falcons and Titans. An Eagles-Packers Divisional Game at Lambeau would have been much better than this.
I know that Andy Reid has been getting a lot of grief for not making adjustments in the Super Bowl and the Chiefs getting blown out but here are some numbers to support my claim that he’s one of the best 5 or 6 head coaches in NFL history... 1. Andy has been an NFL head coach for 22 seasons. He’s made the playoffs in 17 of them. 2. Andy has won 11 division titles and finished 2nd in 7 other seasons. 3. Including his 1st season taking over the 3-13 Eagles his teams have finished with a losing record in 3 of 22 seasons. 4. It took him 2 years to turn the 3-13 Eagles into a perennial contender that made the playoffs 9 times in 11 years, won 6 division titles, and made 5 NFC championship game appearances. 5. It didn’t even take him that long to turn the 2-14 Chiefs into a contender. KC was dead last in the NFL in points scored and 25th in points allowed in 2012. One year later they went 11-5 after winning their first 9 games and were 6th and 5th in each category. 6. He’s 6th all time in wins and will enter the top 5 next season with just 5 more wins. He will likely retire 4th. Only behind Shula, Halas, and Belichick. 7. He’s 4th in playoff wins and is 2 behind Shula and 3 behind Landry. No one is catching Belichick any time soon. 8. He won at least 1 playoff game in his first 7 appearances. 9. He’s won 63 percent of his regular season games. 10. His teams have finished in the top 10 in point differential 18 times in 22 seasons. 11. He’s been to the conference championship game 8 times and at least to the divisional round 12 times. His team has been among the last 4 standing more than 1/3 of the time and among the last 8 more than 1/2. 12. The man can coach up a quarterback. 13. He never throws his players under the bus. He takes the blame for everything and gives credit to other people all the time. 14. He’s won 60 of 126 challenges. That’s the most ever and a lot better than the league average. It’s something. 15. He finally got his championship. After flirting with immortality for so long Andy finally won the Super Bowl and there’s really nothing he hasn’t accomplished now. So that’s my case. I’m admittedly biased as an Eagles fan but the resume is still the resume. Andy’s team will almost always be a winning team and will have a real shot at winning the Super Bowl about half the time. He gets overshadowed by the success of Bill Belichick but he’s a phenomenal head coach. To me he’s one of the best 5 ever but I don’t think there’s a real argument to be made to keep him out of the top 10 by anyone.
@@JahNuhThunDeeTheOneAndOnly yeah I didn’t think much of the chiefs turnaround in 2013. That 9-0 start was against one of the shittiest schedules in the league (no wins against winning teams outside of the 10-6 Eagles) and I wasn’t surprised when they blew the 28 point lead in the playoffs
@@marcusmcgraw3519 That’s the thing about many of these “turnarounds”: they begin with low expectations, the team doing it has a weak last-place schedule to build up their confidence, and they usually make it no further than the first or second round.
lol are you guys serious? The Eagles had a bunch of really good players there when he took over also but who cares? The Chiefs were still 29-67 over their previous 6 seasons and the Eagles were 9-22-1. If those teams were so good they wouldn’t have been a combined 5-27 the year before he got there. The Chiefs had a point differential of negative 214 in 2012. Only one team was within 50 points of that. The Eagles were negative 183 in 1998 and that was one point better than the worst team. KC then had a plus 125 in 2013, tied for 2nd best and the Eagles were plus 106 in 2000 which was 6th. Neither team had a quarterback in place. Neither team had players who had won before. But what he did wasn’t that impressive because he inherited a half dozen good players and had an easy schedule? That’s silly. He didn’t take a 7 win team and turn them into a 10 win wildcard team one time. He took 2 broken franchises and totally changed the culture and made them both perennial contenders. He did it twice and it stuck both times. If you include the old school guys Andy is probably around 10th right now. Losing the Super Bowl this season really hurt him. But if he squeezes another championship out of Patrick Mahomes he’s top 5.
Interesting jaws makes the Jordon comment. Someone who will be mentioned in the same breath him in 19 years starts his legendary journey later tomight.
This game was nowhere near as close as the final score indicated. One big play off a penalty that shouldn’t have been called, another defensive touchdown, and an intentional safety at the end of the game accounted for most of the Bears points on the day
Andy Reid took a terrible Eagles team and within 3 years took them to the NFC Championship. It would take 3 more tries before they got to a Super Bowl, but Andy Reid made the Eagles playoff contenders and would do the same for the Chiefs.
The 2001 bears were I think more disappointing than the 2018 bears on how their seasons ended after a great regular season. (Both to the eagles 😩)
The 2001 Bears reminds me of the 1986 Bears. They both had really good defenses. The quarterback situations was a carousel just like you saw there. When it came playoff time, the offense got exposed because there was no QB to guide them. The Eagles were just a better team just in 1986 when the Redskins defeated the Bears in the playoffs.
McNabb at the end of that game be like: "Yeah, they got a great defense as well as....um....uh...their special teams is good too....."
First playoff meeting between these two teams since New Year's Eve 1988 during the famous "Fog Bowl".
This game pretty much disproved my “Eagles made the playoffs because of their division” argument.
After beating one team above .500 for most of the season (week 2, Seattle) now they’ve done it back to back weeks.
The 2001 Chicago Bears were the worst 13 win team in NFL history
@@cbod14 nah, they were just the polar opposite of the 2003 Chiefs.
It indicated their dominant run through the NFC in the early 2000s!
This game would mark
-The last game at Soldier Field before renovation
-The first and last playoff game for Dick Jauron as an NFL head coach
-The first home playoff game for the Bears since 1991
-The first divisional round win for the Eagles since 1980
-The first road playoff win in Andy Reid’s career
The first time divisional playoff Saturday started in late afternoon rather than 12:00
Mcnabb was lights out in this game...
When you have jim miller and shane matthews as your qbs...you are in trouble
Pretty much
Typical Bears flotsam at that position.
Miller had a decent year in 2001 and was arguably better in 2002.
I thought the Bears were going to win this game- monster defense, at home, battle tested (Packers, Bucs, Ravens), won a tougher division, Eagles had lost to a similar team in the divisional round last year (Giants), Chicago had beaten teams Philly lost to (49ers, Cardinals, Washington)
But I forgot to factor in Philly’s road record- only an all-time heroic 49er goal line stand prevented an 8-0 (soon to be 9-0) record away from the Vet
I thought we would beat Chicago easily
@@roguegust8832 I was admittedly skeptical of the Eagles all season. This honestly surprised me.
Eagles were playing their best football at the best time of year.
I have one question: why was Solider Field renovated after that season? It looked great as it was.
It was-and still is- the smallest stadium in the NFL
Luxury Boxes and club seating. I think the stadium lost its historical landmark status as a result.
@jaboo82681 actually, the renovations reduced seating capacity
@@targettoad691 I was going to say didn’t it reduce capacity?
They should have just renovated it like notre dame stadium or lambeu field
That was totally roughing the passer on Miller
The '01 Bears are the flukiest 13-win team in history and this game shows it.
Naw the 06 bears
@@kevinewell991both Bears won in large part because of return TDs lol
The 2001 Packers were a much better team than the 2001 Bears. They beat them both times in the regular season. We should have won the Central, but we had some dumb losses against the Falcons and Titans. An Eagles-Packers Divisional Game at Lambeau would have been much better than this.
5-11 Minnesota was worse.
@@chrisuncleahmad but going to the Metrodome is never easy no matter how bad the Vikings.
Rams still would have made it to SB 36 this season!
original soldier field had the flair
Final game at Soldier Field until 2003.
Final game at good soldier field
Soldier Field passed away on this day 😢
I know that Andy Reid has been getting a lot of grief for not making adjustments in the Super Bowl and the Chiefs getting blown out but here are some numbers to support my claim that he’s one of the best 5 or 6 head coaches in NFL history...
1. Andy has been an NFL head coach for 22 seasons. He’s made the playoffs in 17 of them.
2. Andy has won 11 division titles and finished 2nd in 7 other seasons.
3. Including his 1st season taking over the 3-13 Eagles his teams have finished with a losing record in 3 of 22 seasons.
4. It took him 2 years to turn the 3-13 Eagles into a perennial contender that made the playoffs 9 times in 11 years, won 6 division titles, and made 5 NFC championship game appearances.
5. It didn’t even take him that long to turn the 2-14 Chiefs into a contender. KC was dead last in the NFL in points scored and 25th in points allowed in 2012. One year later they went 11-5 after winning their first 9 games and were 6th and 5th in each category.
6. He’s 6th all time in wins and will enter the top 5 next season with just 5 more wins. He will likely retire 4th. Only behind Shula, Halas, and Belichick.
7. He’s 4th in playoff wins and is 2 behind Shula and 3 behind Landry. No one is catching Belichick any time soon.
8. He won at least 1 playoff game in his first 7 appearances.
9. He’s won 63 percent of his regular season games.
10. His teams have finished in the top 10 in point differential 18 times in 22 seasons.
11. He’s been to the conference championship game 8 times and at least to the divisional round 12 times. His team has been among the last 4 standing more than 1/3 of the time and among the last 8 more than 1/2.
12. The man can coach up a quarterback.
13. He never throws his players under the bus. He takes the blame for everything and gives credit to other people all the time.
14. He’s won 60 of 126 challenges. That’s the most ever and a lot better than the league average. It’s something.
15. He finally got his championship. After flirting with immortality for so long Andy finally won the Super Bowl and there’s really nothing he hasn’t accomplished now.
So that’s my case. I’m admittedly biased as an Eagles fan but the resume is still the resume. Andy’s team will almost always be a winning team and will have a real shot at winning the Super Bowl about half the time. He gets overshadowed by the success of Bill Belichick but he’s a phenomenal head coach. To me he’s one of the best 5 ever but I don’t think there’s a real argument to be made to keep him out of the top 10 by anyone.
To be fair that 2-14 Chiefs team had something like 6 Pro Bowlers on it...and in Reid’s first 4 years with the team they were never known for offense
If he knew how to manage the damn clock he might have more rings.
@@JahNuhThunDeeTheOneAndOnly yeah I didn’t think much of the chiefs turnaround in 2013. That 9-0 start was against one of the shittiest schedules in the league (no wins against winning teams outside of the 10-6 Eagles) and I wasn’t surprised when they blew the 28 point lead in the playoffs
@@marcusmcgraw3519 That’s the thing about many of these “turnarounds”: they begin with low expectations, the team doing it has a weak last-place schedule to build up their confidence, and they usually make it no further than the first or second round.
lol are you guys serious? The Eagles had a bunch of really good players there when he took over also but who cares? The Chiefs were still 29-67 over their previous 6 seasons and the Eagles were 9-22-1. If those teams were so good they wouldn’t have been a combined 5-27 the year before he got there. The Chiefs had a point differential of negative 214 in 2012. Only one team was within 50 points of that. The Eagles were negative 183 in 1998 and that was one point better than the worst team. KC then had a plus 125 in 2013, tied for 2nd best and the Eagles were plus 106 in 2000 which was 6th. Neither team had a quarterback in place. Neither team had players who had won before. But what he did wasn’t that impressive because he inherited a half dozen good players and had an easy schedule? That’s silly. He didn’t take a 7 win team and turn them into a 10 win wildcard team one time. He took 2 broken franchises and totally changed the culture and made them both perennial contenders. He did it twice and it stuck both times. If you include the old school guys Andy is probably around 10th right now. Losing the Super Bowl this season really hurt him. But if he squeezes another championship out of Patrick Mahomes he’s top 5.
The Eagles next road playoff win would be 7 years later when they came here and thumped the T-Jack Vikings.
Interesting jaws makes the Jordon comment. Someone who will be mentioned in the same breath him in 19 years starts his legendary journey later tomight.
2:31 tremendous play by McNabb
This game was nowhere near as close as the final score indicated. One big play off a penalty that shouldn’t have been called, another defensive touchdown, and an intentional safety at the end of the game accounted for most of the Bears points on the day
Revenge for The Fog Bowl.
This makes me smile. One of my best friends is a shitcago fan 😀
That Bears team was a 7 win team at best. I still have no idea how they won 13 that year.
Defense.
They were the opposite of the 6-10 Colts
Back to reality in 2oo2.
McNabb is NOT from Chicago he’s from Dolton Illinois
McNabb was a beast
The Eagles defense was just as good as the Bears, and the Eagles had the better QB.
Easy math.
so much for my 'eagles only made the playoffs because their division was bad' argument
Andy Reid took a terrible Eagles team and within 3 years took them to the NFC Championship. It would take 3 more tries before they got to a Super Bowl, but Andy Reid made the Eagles playoff contenders and would do the same for the Chiefs.
Shane matthews band lol
Donovan "no ring" McNabbbbbbbb
Worst 13-3 team ever
The 2001 Chicago Bears: The worst 13 win team in NFL History
Of all teams for them to lose to though..... the Eagles were a 1 man gang
That would be the 2010 Atlanta Falcons
@@JahNuhThunDeeTheOneAndOnly Matt Ryan is better than the shit sandwich The Bears had at QB.
They’re the only 13 win team I can remember thinking damn this is a 5 win team.
@@jpete3027666 not all 13 win teams are flashy offense-first