{"id":324372,"date":"2025-08-28T12:58:16","date_gmt":"2025-08-28T12:58:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/324372\/"},"modified":"2025-08-28T12:58:16","modified_gmt":"2025-08-28T12:58:16","slug":"kevin-byard-disappointed-by-bears-defenses-final-preseason-impression","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/324372\/","title":{"rendered":"Kevin Byard disappointed by Bears defense&#8217;s final preseason impression"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the final preseason game of the year, the <a href=\"https:\/\/bearswire.usatoday.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Chicago Bears;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Chicago Bears<\/a> seemed to learn more about themselves as a team and not all of it was positive.<\/p>\n<p>While Chicago ended the preseason with a record of 2-0-1, the general consensus sounded like a team that knew they had a long way to grow to get to where they want to be. Veteran safety Kevin Byard spoke about the defense&#8217;s performance against the Kansas City Chiefs in the finale, and he was disappointed by the team&#8217;s effort.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>While he didn&#8217;t play much of the first half, Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes looked nearly flawless, going 8-13, with 143 yards and one touchdown and a passer rating of 124.8 in very limited play. Byard, who finished the game with two tackles, said the team did not look inspired to play against a team that competed in the Super Bowl last season.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHonestly, it was disappointing,&#8221; Byard said. &#8220;I don\u2019t think we played inspired football going against a team that was in the Super Bowl last year.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Last season, Byard was a locker room leader and one of the top contributors on the <a href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/teams\/chicago-bears\/326\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Bears;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Bears<\/a> defense, totaling 130 tackles, two sacks, and one interception. With new defensive coordinator Dennis Allen now calling the defense, expectations and standards will certainly grow. But Byard&#8217;s comments suggest that they&#8217;re not where they want to be with just over a week until the regular season begins.<\/p>\n<p>Follow Bears Wire on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/TheBearsWire\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Twitter;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Twitter<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/TheBearsWire\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Facebook;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Facebook<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/bearswireusat\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Instagram;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Instagram<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This article originally appeared on Bears Wire: <a href=\"https:\/\/bearswire.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/nfl\/bears\/2025\/08\/28\/bears-kevin-byard-disappointed-defense-effort-preseason\/85855504007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Bears&#039; Kevin Byard disappointed by defense&#039;s final preseason effort;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Bears&#8217; Kevin Byard disappointed by defense&#8217;s final preseason effort<\/a><\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In the final preseason game of the year, the Chicago Bears seemed to learn more about themselves as&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":324373,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2070],"tags":[374,692,391,2493,8897,7,110,4861,6,499],"class_list":{"0":"post-324372","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-chicago-bears","8":"tag-bears","9":"tag-chicago","10":"tag-chicago-bears","11":"tag-chicagobears","12":"tag-dennis-allen","13":"tag-football","14":"tag-kansas-city-chiefs","15":"tag-kevin-byard","16":"tag-nfl","17":"tag-patrick-mahomes"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115106513255422539","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324372","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=324372"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324372\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/324373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=324372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=324372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=324372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}