D hasn't been as bad as you think

[bewp7]

this defense made sam darnold, josh allen, and mitch trubisky look like pro bowl quarterbacks. it’s definitely as bad as i think...maybe worse!

the simple fact that they let trubisky hurt them with his legs when every single other team the bears have played had enough common sense to take that away and make him beat them with his crappy arm says it all!

 

[foofighters]

You can shoot me down.. and that is ok but D hasn't been as manifestly bad as most are claiming. Do we miss waaaay too many tackles.. yes. Is our run defence on the outside porous.. yes. Do we kill ourselves with dumb penalties.. yes.

BUT.. our defence has and is improving. No doubt we are missing LVE out there and our pass rush hasn't been effective. I hate our 'all hats to the ball' over pursuit BUT the D is still putting up some decent stats. They got a couple of turnovers against the Bears.. they kept them to field goals after some good drives.. and generally did the best they could.

The real problem is our offence. When your offence puts up ZERO points after the first drive until the fourth quarter.. then your D is always going to look bad. They get gassed.. they get down. We had opportunities to go ahead by 2 scores TWICE in the first half and whiffed on both. That gets any D down. The missed FG which means we are playing catch up doesn't help either.

When we get behind we go pass happy which is a disaster for two reasons.. first Dak is crap (been saying that since he stole romos job.. glad others are finally seeing the obvious) and our passing offence is crap unless it is junk time or the opposition is stacked very very heavily against the run. Second reason is we are on the field for shorter amounts of time - ie our defence gets exposed more.

Yes the defence can improve but I don't think they are the main problem.. Dak and our passing offence is where the issues start and, of course, the woeful coaching staff (particularly clapper). Change the HC and QB and this team could be very dangerous.

this warrants a reasonable suspicion drug test. Meet me in the emergency room so this test can be administered. Defense has been improving. The most important skill of any defense is tackling. They can’t even do that.

 

[baltcowboy]

The defense has no depth. We lost Anthony Brown, Heath, LVE, and hot boy weed head. We need to put that cap money into depth on defense and special teams.

 

[cowboyblue22]

this team needs coaches that know how to coach in the modern era of football and needs some new players to go along with that they have some talent but boy do they need direction and coaching

 

[Cmac]

On Thursday night, that looked like the Big 12 special on D.

 

[Sydla]

This post confounds me.

 

[jazzcat22]

"Doing the best they can" ?

When you suck and doing the best you can, you still suck.

That is this defense.
Never any stops at critical times, heck, rarely any stops at all. Bend and Break is the defense.

 

[DuncanIso]

#FireMarinelli

 

[ESisback]

3-7 in our last ten. That only happens if both sides of the ball are struggling.

It’s like I always say...a COMBINATION of factors. Death by a 1,000 cuts. A couple of bad things happen, then it snowballs.

 

[Alexander]

Yeah! Easy stuff to overcome and win a SB, right? RIGHT!?

Yes. They are so talented. They just need to start tackling and playing smart again. And stuff.

 

[Alexander]

#FireMarinelli

#RichardToo

 

[Parcells4Life]

They made Mitch Tribusky look like an NFL starting QB. If they had held their ground the offense wouldn’t have gotten in such a big hole and started pressing.

 

[FLCowboyFan]

I was at the game in Chicago and saw this D live. The D could not stop the Bears at all during the game. The only reason that the game didn't get out of hand early was because the Bears aren't a great offense. There were holes everywhere. It looked like we could have picked apart by a better QB. We didn't stop their running game (one that is struggling) and we let a below average QB look like Brady in his prime.

 

[ChronicCowboy]

The defense has been worse than you think.

 

[DuncanIso]

#RichardToo

KRichard isn’t the DC.

 

[DuncanIso]

The defense has been worse than you think.

schemes busted.

every team knows how to play it.

the stinking Jets shredded our D.

 

[Alexander]

KRichard isn’t the DC.

So what?

Tell me again how many turnovers his secondary has? Wait. The player he has never liked has 3 of them.

 

[HowardC]

this defense made sam darnold, josh allen, and mitch trubisky look like pro bowl quarterbacks. it’s definitely as bad as i think...maybe worse!

the simple fact that they let trubisky hurt them with his legs when every single other team the bears have played had enough common sense to take that away and make him beat them with his crappy arm says it all!

Don't forget Driskel in Detroit. He looked pretty good even though they lost.

 

[John813]

I can't tell if people post stuff on here to get a huge thread going or they believe what they are writing

 

[DuncanIso]

So what?

Tell me again how many turnovers his secondary has? Wait. The player he has never liked has 3 of them.

there are 7 defensive coaches.

why the KR hate? He’s the best coach we have on the defense.

It’s just blind hate.

Marinelli is the DC. It’s his scheme that’s busted.

you didn’t see KR running this stinking scheme for the SHawks.