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Vernon Davis Is Right About the Bears' Defensive Front Seven
Written by Brett Solesky   
Thursday, 12 November 2009 02:51
There's controversy surrounding recent comments from San Francisco TE Vernon Davis regarding the Chicago Bears' defensive front four and the 49ers offensive line.  Davis stepped up earlier this week and stated emphatically

"I think we can destroy them," Davis then went even further by saying,  "I think we can destroy their front. I don't see anything spectacular about their front line."

Those are fighting words in NFL circles, but the words are completely true the 49ers probably can destroy the Bears' D-Line.  Pop in the tape from the any of the last three games and you can see the Bears' defensive front getting constantly destroyed and over powered. 

Mike SingletaryThe Bengals game the Browns game the Cardinals game the Bears have looked like one of the worst defensive lines in the NFL, period.  The Monsters of the Midway, the team built on being a physical football team that comes up and punches you in the mouth is simply being destroyed at the point of attack. 

I can't put it in more simpler terms, it's like the Bears don't care, no one up front cares or wants to make plays or is getting the push or penetration to stop the running game. 

What you say the Cleveland Browns only managed six points in their game?  Simple explanation the Browns were stupid in their play-calling in the way they tried to attack the Bears by going to the outside rather than manning up and busting them in the chops. 

Ironically the most physical player in that game was Tommie Harris who had his best game of the season against the Browns.  Coincidental or not the Bears seem to have more success in stopping the run when Tommie Harris is in the game.  The Bears have allowed over 100-yards rushing three times on the season and twice out of those three games Tommie Harris sat on the bench either due to his being benched or ejected from the game. 

What can the Bears do right now to fix their problems on defense, problems that show an extreme lack of effort in getting penetration, getting off blocks and making solid hard tackles.  This isn't what has defined the Chicago Bears over the course of their franchise, one thing you could most certainly count on was the defense was going to punish you for every inch of success you achieved on the football field. 

Now however the Bears have given up over 40-points in two games, twice in a season for only the second time in franchise history.  The 49ers may not be super talented, but one thing you can count on is that former Chicago Bears player and now 49ers head coach Mike Singletary will have his players playing the way Singletary used to.  Singletary coaches his players the way he used to play football for these same Monsters of the Midway, punish your opponent and physically dominate the gridiron. 

Part of the problem of why the Bears are struggling at the POA is the size of their players.  Israel Idonijae who was told to lose weight for a shift over to DE from DT cut his weight down to 260-pounds, and now he's getting pushed around like a smallish DT would. 

At point I was with most Bears fans, contemplating what it would be like with no Brian Urlacher around anymore and would it be a good thing to be rid of him.  The answer now seems to be an emphatic NO as Urlacher's presence, leadership, and even fiery play provides a spark that is so desperately needed right now. 

The 49ers are going to come ready to play and they bring a running back who is big and strong but is also very quick and elusive with his ability to make cuts and get big yards.  If the Bears don't come out ready to play and focused on physically dominating in the trenches they could suffer yet another humiliating loss. 

Right now what we've seen from the Bears at this point in the season says that they will in fact be embarrassed on the road going up a team that thrives on trying to win games by playing physical.  If the Bears didn't learn their lesson from the Bengals debacle, then what sort of confidence should we have that things have changed after the Cardinals debacle? 

This team needs to find it's internal intestinal fortitude it needs to think back to the primeval instincts and basics of football and that is to go out there tonight and physically dominate and punish their opponent.  If they don't take this mind set then from Thursday night until opening day next year Bears fans will be wondering where things went so wrong on a season that once held so much promise. 
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written by Rex Jaybels, November 12, 2009
I hate to say it, but you're right, Davis is not wrong about much when it comes to the Bears D-line.
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written by MonstersoftheMidwayIllust, November 12, 2009
At some point this D-Line needs to step up and answer the challenge that not only Davis has thrown down before him, but the entire Bears fan base has thrown down.

Right now they are playing like a gang of rookies that seem clueless how to make plays or attack the LOS or get penetration or even take on the correct gap assignment.

No one would be wrong to say the Bears are playing some of the worst defense in the history of the franchise right now.

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