Kind of sad when you look to a football game to save your weekend...

First off, I'm not that distressed about the Bears loss. We hurt ourselves, we're still 4-1 and in first and although I really hate losing to Chicago, I'll get over it. However, my main qualm is that Mike McCarthy had a big hand in losing the game. Yes, Favre threw Urlacher a freebie, Jones fumbled away a blowout and penalties killed us. But the play-calling and the time-management in the second half was outright abysmal. I'm not calling for his head or anything close to that, he's done a great job so far, he just had a terrible game.
Calling a run on 3rd and 7 when you're one of the best passing teams in the league is AWFUL. I know he wants to establish the run, but you can't go away from what got you to 4-0. There's no way you should go from 340 yards in the first half to barely eking out a first down in the second half. The last drive was painful to watch, Favre shouldn't be making three shotgun signals in the hurry-up offense (that could be blamed on Favre). You can't continually go underneath for five yards when trying to get a lot of yardage. What happened to the slant? That was killing the Bears all first half long, yet we threw maybe two the entire second half.
The worst call may have been challenging the Bears first down on that last drive. There's no shot at getting that call overturned, and that timeout is worth gold in either stopping the Bears offense or giving your own offense time to score.
Now we just have to heal up, fix some mistakes and pass all over Washington next week. 5-1 heading into the bye week is still absolute prime position.