Offense and defense are always a contradictory coexistence. This is true for football and basketball, and the same is true for rugby. The law of "offense wins, defense wins championships" is common to all ball sports.
When people talk about the strong defensive teams in the NFL, in addition to the Pittsburgh Steelers, Baltimore Ravens, Buffalo Bills and other teams, the Chicago Bears are another top defensive team in the league with a long history and tradition. Among the different lists of the best defensive teams, the 1985 Chicago Bears are the best choice by everyone.
That year, the Chicago Bears' defense reached its peak. They were hailed as a "desperate" defensive team by the league, and even the top defensive team that no one could surpass in the entire long history. Throughout the season, they lost yards per game on average. He averaged 258.4 yards and conceded 12.4 points per game. Both statistics ranked first in the league and set a historical record in the league.
During the regular season that year, the Chicago Bears ruthlessly crushed every offensive team in the league. Almost no one could form effective resistance. They only lost one game throughout the season——
The Miami Dolphins led by Dan Marino defeated the all-powerful Chicago Bears at home, but the premise was that there was no bye week that year. After the Chicago Bears won 12 consecutive victories, they were exhausted physically and mentally and ended up with "24: 38” lost the game.
In addition, throughout the season, the Chicago Bears achieved an excellent record of fifteen wins and one loss, and entered the playoffs with great strides. In two games, the divisional round and the conference finals, they kept zero opponents in a row, without any suspense. Entering the Super Bowl; facing the New England Patriots in the finals, that terrifying defensive team still showed no mercy. "46:10", with an absolute advantage of 36 points, brutally and bloody swept to the top.
It is worth mentioning that in this Super Bowl game, the New England Patriots' ground attack only advanced seven yards. A pitiful seven yards.
At that time, defensive coordinator Buddy Ryan's technical support and all top defensive players achieved a perfect combination——
Defensive ends Dan Hampton and Richard Dent, linebackers Mike Singletary and Otis0ilson , safeties Dave Duerson and Gary Fencik.
Every player is a top player in his own right, with equal emphasis on defensive talent and strict discipline. In a single season, he scored 34 interceptions and 60 sacks, leading the league, and 258 in a single season. The points differential was the fifth-highest in the 1970 Super Bowl era.
In addition, it should be noted that the Chicago Bears ranked first in the league in ground offense that season, which objectively limited the defensive playing time. In other words, in the limited playing time, the defensive team still delivered the top level in history. Man-to-man defense, quarterback surprise tactics and high-quality ground defense successfully dominated the game. They were a No solution to the problem.
As the second oldest team in the league's history, the Chicago Bears were once the league's top hegemon. They have won the league championship eight times, and after entering the Super Bowl era, they swept the 1985 Super Bowl with momentum. The Super Bowl champion this season, the team has successively included such famous players as Walter Payton, Sid Luckman, and Clyde Turner.
If calculated in terms of Super Bowl championships, the Bears, who have only entered the Super Bowl twice and won once and lost once, seem not to be ranked at all, but in fact, they are one of the greatest and best teams in the league. In the history of the Chicago Bears team, they have retired a total of fourteen jersey numbers, which is the most in the NFL. In addition, they have a total of 28 players in the Hall of Fame, which is also the most in the NFL.
There is no doubt that the history of this team is an integral and cannot be ignored component of the NFL.
After the last glory of the 1990s, the Chicago Bears entered a new round of transition between the old and the new. After 1994, they missed the playoffs for six consecutive years, and finally returned to the playoffs in 2001, and It appeared in the Super Bowl finals in 2006. Unfortunately, it lost to the Indianapolis Colts led by Peyton Manning and failed to reach the top for the second time.
After that, Chicago fell into another trough.
In the five years from 2007 to 2011, the Bears only entered the playoffs in 2010, and unfortunately lost to the rival Green Bay Packers in the conference finals; other than that, they have always Trapped by his own mistakes, he often falls behind at critical moments, just like last year——
In the tenth week of the regular season, they still had a record of seven wins and three losses, seizing the opportunity to compete for the playoffs, but then suffered a five-game losing streak, despite defeating the same conference team in the final week of the regular season. The archrival Minnesota Vikings still ended the season with a record of eight wins and eight losses, regrettably missing the playoffs.
In other words, they have the strength, but they always lack the finishing touch.
The current Chicago Bears lineup has a luxurious defensive team comparable to the Pro Bowl level:
Defensive end Julius Peppers, defensive tackle Henry Melton, cornerbacks Charles Tillman and Jim Jennings, outside linebackers Lance-Briggs.
All of them are the top players in the league. The biggest one is undoubtedly Julius Peppers. He was the second overall pick of the Carolina Panthers in 2002. He was transferred to the Chicago Bears in the 2010 season and won the Defensive Rookie of the Year award in his rookie season. , has been selected to the Pro Bowl seven times, the All-American first team three times, the All-American second team three times, and has occupied a place in the league's best team of the first decade of the 21st century.
The one who is in the best form is Charles Tillman. In the 2012 season, only four players in the entire league were selected as the best of the week at least twice, and Tillman was one of them.
This veteran cornerback, a second-round pick who entered the league in 2003, seemed to have a career that suddenly took off last year. He was selected to the Pro Bowl for the first time, and this year he reached the highlight moment, even enough to be evenly matched with JJ Watt, becoming the current top player. The biggest star defensive player in the entire league.
Creating dropped balls, defensive blocking, and timely tackles, Tillman's performance in the cornerback position can be said to be the ultimate. Dropping the ball is just a technical option. So far, he has collected six data, leading the way. The entire league can see his powerful offensive power in defense.
Among the regular season data so far, the Chicago Bears' defense ranks second in the league, second only to the San Francisco 49ers. Among them, ground defense ranks second in the league, and passing defense ranks first in the league. Especially the tactics of front-line pressure and tight back defense trap the opponent's offensive team like a turtle in a urn.
Compared to the defensive team, the Chicago Bears' offensive team seems bleak, but in fact, they still have an above-average offensive team.
First of all, they have a Pro Bowl-level running back, Matt Forte, who is considered a top running back comparable to Minnesota Vikings top star Adrian Peterson. In the fourth year of his career, in the past three years, there are only four running backs who have better running yards in a single season than him, and he is even better than "Beast Mode" Marshawn Lynch.
Secondly, they have a future potential Hall of Fame wide receiver, Brandon Marshall. Since entering the league as a fourth-round pick in 2006, he has played five consecutive seasons except for his rookie season. Caught 1,000 receiving yards and was the first wide receiver in history to accomplish such a feat with three different teams.
Once again, they have a quasi-excellent quarterback, Jay-Culter. After being selected by the Denver Broncos with the 11th overall pick in the first round in 2006, the Chicago Bears made team history in 2009. The biggest deal in the NBA was to sign Cutler and start the journey of equipping his own offensive team.
In fact, just reading Cutler's passing numbers suggests he's a good quarterback.
Except for his rookie season, he passed more than 3,000 yards in four consecutive seasons, and exceeded 4,000 yards in 2008; he had more than 20 touchdowns in four consecutive seasons, and he also had the ability to run the ball. Ability, he has attempted more than 40 running balls in four consecutive seasons, and has scored a running ball touchdown in four consecutive seasons.
In other words, he is a traditional pocket quarterback, but he can use his legs to run out of the world in crisis situations. It sounds like he is a weakened version of Aaron Rodgers, but fans of the rival Green Bay Packers affectionately call Cutler a "good friend."
Why?
Two sets of data are enough to explain everything: four consecutive seasons with more than fifteen interceptions, and even reached twenty-six in 2009, while the number of touchdowns that season was only twenty-seven; six consecutive seasons There have been more than five goals conceded in each season, ten in 2010 and seven in 2011.
In other words, Cutler alone will lead to double-digit ball possession conversions in a season.
Sometimes, the entire defensive team plus the offensive team may not be able to lose double-digit ball possessions during the entire regular season - it should be said that this is the case many times.
So, what exactly is the problem?
Cutler is the problem, or at least one of the problems.
At critical moments, all advantages have been ruined due to repeated mistakes. The Chicago Bears' record in the past few years is the best example of this. In 2009, they had seven wins and nine losses, in 2010, they had 11 wins and five losses, and in 2011, they had eight wins and eight losses. They have always maintained sufficient competitiveness, but failed to be tough in the playoffs, which led to this situation.
But Cutler is the best choice for the Chicago Bears quarterback position. It can be seen from the side that there is a scarcity of excellent quarterback positions in the league.
Will they repeat that mistake this season?
Judging from the current record, the Chicago Bears are the champions of the NFC North Division, beating the rival Green Bay Packers in the same division, firmly holding the top spot. The results of seven wins and two losses are also particularly impressive, with two losses respectively. It was the loss to the Green Bay Packers in the second week of the regular season, and the loss to the Houston Texans last week——
Both teams are tough rivals.
This week, they are about to face their third strong enemy, the San Francisco 49ers!
