[CHGO] Dennis Allen: “I don’t think I coached well enough last week, I don’t think we played well enough last week.”

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  2. 16 games into the season and I still have zero idea on if Dennis Allen is good or bad at his job

  4. Defense has to play better, I don’t expect us to go to the superbowl but I want to get to the divisional round at least.

  6. Yeah the linebackers were an absolute mess. We allowed Purdy to throw over the middle at will.

  7. This is not a defense that’s basically ever going to stop an offense that’s operating on the level that SF’s been at lately. Definitely needed to convert a few of those touchdowns into field goals, though, that’s basically how we’ve been winning all year.

  9. Glad to see some accountability from the defense this week. Haven’t heard a lot of of this this year

  10. Brady said he’s the hardest DC he ever played against. He’s been down his big names most of the year and the guys who are back are clearly nowhere near 100%. I’ll reserve judgment until after next season and some FA/draft pick reinforcements

  14. DA is leagues ahead of Eberflus and won us several games with the defense stepping up especially before the offense started clicking

  15. I don’t understand why they didn’t blitz the blindside corner to discourage those play action passes. Can someone who knows more about football explain that?

  17. Dennis Allen somehow has been better with backups in than starters which is really perplexing.

  18. It’s really hard to play good defense when you have no pass rush. Giving a team like the 9ers time to operate is gonna get you killed all day

  19. It’s the accountability that I love from this coaching staff especially after our last one never taking any. A lot of our mistake were bad angles and lack of proper tackling. Those are fixable. We won’t be a a top ten defense but we can be one that gives up less than 42 points.

  24. I’m so confused reading the comments here what people expect him to say. This defense lacks talent and has had so many injuries and they lead the league in takeaways.

  25. He hasn’t done his job at all. He’s been one of the worst coordinators all year and has done far worse than Eberflus (ew) with the same roster. 

    The team was certainly hampered by injuries early on, and yes our pass rush is lackluster to say the least, but that’s part of what coaching is: identifying weaknesses and covering them the best you can. Allen’s gameplans have been nothing short of disastrous and if not for opponent mistakes and Ben Johnson’s offense covering for him, he would be on the hot seat.

    He started the season by blowing a lead against JJ McCarthy, who is in the midst of the second worst QB season of all time, but hey, crazy things happen early in the season, right? He followed that up by giving up 52 points to Detroit. Again, early season.

    He followed that up with a strong performance against a listless Dallas team who lost Lamb before giving up 24 points to the worst team in the league, the Raiders (whose 24 points was the most the Raiders scored all year in a regulation game). His unit would give up a potentially game winning drive before being bailed out by a blocked FG. 

    Next came a disastrous effort against Washington where a last-minute unforced fumble by Jayden Daniels on a handoff gave the Bears life. Next up the Bears throttled Allen’s old Saints team in one of Rattler’s final starts. Allen’s unit was then torched by backup Tyler Huntley and the Ravens in a game where the offense couldn’t finish and the defense was nonexistent in the second half.

    What followed was arguably Allen’s worst game of his career and one of the all-time greatest choke jobs in NFL history. Up 41-27 with 1:43 left, Allen’s unit would give up a TD, 2 pt conversion, and another TD with 54 seconds left to backup QB Joe Flacco, who drove 55 yards on 4 plays and 57 yards on 6 plays over two drives. Luckily, Colston Loveland and Caleb Williams would combine to keep the spotlight off this atrocious display.

    The following week Jaxson Dart without Skattebo or Nabers would annihilate Allen’s unit for nearly 3 quarters before Dart was forced to leave with a concussion. Only after Dart’s injury would the Giant’s offense finally ground to a halt, allowing the Bears to comeback and win. Undoubtedly, without that injury, it’s game over for Chicago.

    To his credit, Allen’s unit stepped up for 3 quarters against the Vikings in Minnesota. For 3+ quarters the defense clamped down and had the Vikings backed into a corner. That is until the defense allowed a 10 play, 85 yard TD drive with 50 seconds left to surrender yet another lead. Luckily, Caleb drove the offense down the field for a game-winning FG.

    The Bears returned home to face backup Mason Rudolph and promptly gave up 21 points and managed to make a last ditch pass breakup at the 50 yard line on fourth down to grab a win over the floundering Steelers offense. Chicago then traveled to Philly on Black Friday and pulled out a convincing victory as the defense stymied the run game and Hurts missed open receivers left and right.

    Then came Green Bay. His first matchup against Love and GB was marked by Allen focusing on solid coverage over blitzing, which led to good success overall, before he would call multiple cover 0 blitzes leading to multiple 20+ yard TD passes. His second matchup two weeks later featured the D getting torched by Malik Willis and the team only pulled out the win due to an onside recovery and GB fumbling on fourth down while driving down the field in OT. In his defense, this was arguably the closest to Allen’s ideal this defense would get this year, as Green Bay failed to score a TD on 4 drives into the red zone. This was the bend but don’t break ideal.

    In between those games the Bears would annihilate the Browns and rookie QB Shedeur Sanders who never looked quite ready to play in an NFL game.

    Lastly, the Bears would play the 49ers, giving up 42 points and yet another game winning drive to the opposition in the fourth quarter, as the defense blew a 3 point lead. The defense would make records for ineptitude in this game as the 49ers put up the most yards and points in a half since 1998. In fact, the Bears defense gave up more points to the Niners than the Cardinals (15), Saints (21), Buccaneers (19), Giants (34), Cardinals again (22), Cleveland (26), or Tennessee (37) did.

    Taken together, it’s clear Allen has failed in every meaningful way this year. His defense has given up points and yards, it has failed at the end of almost every game, it has been ineffective against starters and backups alike, and it has been completely unreliable. It has no identity and no consistency. While it has generated turnovers, the value of these is questionable (after all, Geno Smith threw 4 INT’s yet still put up 24 points) when the defense is forcing punts at a league-low rate and is in the bottom 5 in missed tackle %.

    The coaching on defense is abysmal, to say the least.

  27. Promote Al Harris to DC and get rid of Denis Allen. Won’t happen but I think that’s the right move.

  29. SF defense and special teams are probably saying the same thing.

    SF’s offense is insane. I know it wasn’t a win but wow, we played a heck of a game. If that game is in Soldier Field, we might have won.

  30. Give him some time to build a defense.

    This is one of the most frustrating D-lines I’ve ever seen.

    Opponents get the choice of running the ball till they get board or passing till they don’t feel like it.

  32. Worst part is for Allen fans, there is absolutely nothing you can do to prove them wrong. Allen’s unit could give up 40 or 50 and no matter what it’s ’See what he’s working with??’ 

    Like, yeah, there are plenty of garbage defenses in the NFL missing key units (no pass rush, poor linebacker play, no safeties). The problem is situational play. Never seen a Bears defense blow more games in the fourth quarter this year. Luckily the offense has pulled some crazy comebacks 

  33. Anyone else watching all the edges in these CFP games? Matayo, Akheem Mesidor making some big plays.

  34. Once again DA did the “I’m not taking about last game” again. First time he’s in front of the media and he opens with that soft ass shit again. Honestly l, he surprises me with his ducking of hard questions… ALL super warranted too.

  35. If the QB has any time in the pocket they can pick apart this D! Too many wide open receivers all year, not just last week…they might get out of the first round if it’s GB, anyone else and they’re toast!! With that being said this team has done way better than expected for year 1 under Ben! Excited for things to come 🐻⬇️

  40. Well, considering we lost and it was mostly the defense’s fault, yeah. I don’t think they played well enough either.

  41. It really comes down to 3rd down defensive execution in my opinion. They had been really good on 3rd downs most of the year and then got absolutely torched on 3rd down last week. Fell from like 13th to 19th in 3rd down conversion % in one week. They were never going to be a dominant line of scrimmage type defense with this roster so it’s really important that they get their 3rd down execution back on track cuz they’re still creating turnovers.

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