Not sure if we watched the same defense. For years the Bears defense would be fine as long as Urlacher never missed time. When he went out they were average at best. That changed the last few years. The Bears plugged the next guy in at just about every position (including MLB) and we're still good.

I blame Emery and not Trestman for the defense. He picked the players and the coordinator.

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Maybe we weren't? Urlacher played all 16 games in 2007 and 2008, and they were still average (16th both years) without a good pass rusher. In 2009 when Urlacher was out, and they still had no pass rusher, they slipped to 21st. In 2010 the Bears signed Peppers, which coincided with their return to a dominant defense. Urlacher played all 16 games in 2010 and 2011, but yeah he did miss four games in 2012 and they dealt with that better than I would have thought. (Though thinking about that Seattle game still makes my stomach turn)

Agree about Emery.

not hard to be better than a historically bad defense.

lovies teams beat up on the below .500 teams with bad and rookie qbs that threw the ball away.

Good QBs always easily moved under Lovies cover 2, got into the red zone. Takeaways are great, but to rely upon them when playing playoff teams isnt a good plan....but looked good in the total stats.

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As usual your Lovie analysis is based on misrepresentation and gross generalizations, as if holding teams between 16-19 points during his best years was the result of "rookie qbs that threw the ball away." During his best years Lovie lost because he didn't get offense right. The defense was always good enough to win the SB during his best years, which I want to say was at least five out of the nine he was here for.

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Sneakers and bigfan are right.

What was the stat? I heard them talking about it but didn't hear the actual stat.

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This pretty much happened. No cover and Lovie blew another challenge just for old times sake, but it was a terrible game in the rain, and the Bears had 2 chances in the 4th quarter to put the game on ice and couldn't do it.

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Good call. I was surprised McCown looked so slow to react on a lot of plays. I don't get how you pay 5 mil for a QB and give him a mickey mouse OC under Lovie who knows squat about offensive football.

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