The defense was pretty awful in the bears game, no denying that. But I think that is probably partially symptomatic of this team having totally given up at this juncture of the season
OP is correct. The defense has not been spectacular this year but they are not the Achilles heel that a lot of people with an agenda would have us believe.
We must not forget that we have lost two games this year where the defense gave up 12 or less points. That's the difference between 6 - 7 and 8 - 5. All we needed was 14 points in both of those games and we'd be sitting at a pretty decent spot right now
No, the defense is not exempt from blame. when I see numbers like that and the fact that heading into Chicago we were 8th in the league both in yardage and points allowed, I'm also not saying defense is at the head of the list of issues on this team. Not even close