Bears' defense brought the pressure on Rams QB Matthew Stafford
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What was the key moment when the Bears' defense first pressured Matthew Stafford?
Rahimi Harrison Grody. Middays 10 a.m. to 2 on Chicago Sports Radio 670 the score. the Bears get it back. Stafford and Trump got hit as he threw it. And that ball is recovered for the moment by Kyrie Williams. We'll look down. We'll see if it's anything flee pass or a foam ball as Montez Sweat, the top sack man, got to Stafford.
It's third down.
This is Rahimi Harrison Grody on 670 to score. Nice call, Tyler Buterba, with pressure. Tyler on the ones and twos. He provides the music, the show within a show. It'll let you know what our next topic is a lot of the time.
A DJ of sorts.
Indeed. And we mentioned this earlier in the conversation surrounding how nationally the discussion as to whether or not to go for two by the Bears in the playoff game on Sunday night picked up steam. The other part of it is why I think it was okay to not go for two. We touched on it a little bit, but we didn't get into it as much as I think they deserve their due. You said this, Marshall. I think the biggest concern I had about the Bears was whether or not the defense was going to hold up against the league's best offense. I wouldn't call it a wasted performance. But my goodness, it becomes even more tragic when you consider how good the defense was against Matt Stafford, the Rams offense, and how it absolutely started up front with this team.
That is something that we have not been able to say for all the games this season.
Lane, if I told you back on Friday that the Bears were gonna hold the Rams to seventeen points through four quarters, what would your response honestly have been?
I would have been
shocked. And you would have thought maybe the Bears would still be playing football, correct?
I yeah, I mean, you would think yes, if the Bears held the Rams to ten points at the half and had the total that they had where you're only got twenty for the entire game. I would have said, Well then the Bears are advancing to the NFC title game.
And so when you understand the things that we were the most concerned about. The Puka Nakua's of the world, ending up with just 56 yards on five catches on 10 targets. That's a that's that's that's great that you held him to a 50% catch rate. When you talk about the other guy that you were worried about, Devontae Adams, catching just two balls out of six targets for twenty-four yards. If I said, Hey, Matthew Stafford's gonna complete less than half of his passes for two hundred and fifty-eight yards and not throw a touchdown. And be sacked four times for a loss of twenty nine yards, you would think the Bears are in pretty good shape. And that's the thing. They were in pretty good shape defensively, but offensively, unable to rise to the occasion and score enough points to get a dub.
I I I just think what we saw from Dennis Allen was a reminder to everyone why Dennis Allen is so highly respected in this industry and what the Bears possibly could have been if they had been.
Yeah, it it's It's something that we have monitored the entire year and I go back to training camp and I'm not saying that, oh, based on how they looked at the beginning, that they deserve a gold star for how they looked in this playoff game. That's not what I'm saying. I think it's a little more give them their credit, give the Dennis Allen and and the front four credit for doing what they did. We said this all week long that th the front four was going to have to have their best game of the season, if not one of the best games of their careers as a sum, given the Rams success, specifically Matthew Stafford's success against the Blitz. But I do think it is worth noting Given our concerns, your concerns specifically, Marshall, after you watch training camp.
To see how they were able to get the job done, forcing the Rams into a giving up a season high for sacks in a single game this year. We've talked about how good this offense was. A lot of that production was because they are so good at getting the ball out of Matthew Stafford's hands before the blitz hits. A lot of the blitz, as we know, was illustrated through the secondaries in the corners with Kyler Gordon being healthier.
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