DMelt36
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A backup QB with better efficiency numbers than the starter. It's really about the many talented weapons who have remained healthy. That the D was so thin to begin with and not doing so good before the injuries piled up keeps me from excusing what it has become.
Had to sneak a shot at Cutler in, didn't you? :slap: Anyway ...
I guess it comes down to how much you expected the D to regress. Perhaps I expected more than others.
The game where I think the injuries really started piling up was the Skins game. While that as an awful game, losing so many players in such a quick time makes it hard for me to really hammer the D coaches too much. There's blame there, but not that much, imo.
Before that, though, I thought the defense was at least playing well enough to give the Bears a chance to win. I think people may debate the first Detroit game ... but consider that 24 of those points came on or immediately after a Bears turnover. After the Skins game, you had 3 straight close-to-average performance by the defense. Again, I thought they played well enough to win. Yesterday, again, was not one of those wins.
So in 9 out of 11 games the defense has played well enough to win, IMO. As I'd said before, in the Lovie era, that's all you ever wanted the offense to do. Give the Bears a chance to win. There's no denying room for improvement, but I ain't about to call for Tucker's job (or Trestman's, for that matter) after Week 11.