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Bears first-team defense getting a lot of praises following the Seattle game

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Vince Carbonneau
August 19, 2022  (4:36 PM)
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One of the biggest criticisms coming off the first preseason game against the Kansas City Chiefs was clearly the poor play from the Bears' first-team defense. I get that they were facing an amazing offense, but they still played poorly and the Chiefs scored a very easy touchdown.

Well, it was a completely different story during the second game. Indeed, the Bears' first-team defense shut down the Seahawks' offense. In fact, they forced two tree-and-outs on two occasions.

"The first team D played well," said defensive end Al-Quadin Muhammad, who recorded three tackles and one sack, "just getting off the field, a couple three-and-outs there. We played very complementary football."

The Bears defense's performance Thursday night seemingly proved that the players are buying into the famous HITS philosophy.

"We were out there hustling," Muhammad said, "doing what we're supposed to do and doing what we do in practice, just making it come to life."

Even the second-team defense was very solid. In fact, on the Seahawks' first 10 possessions, the Bears allowed just five first downs, with six three-and-outs.

When asked how he can tell whether the defense is progressing, Eberflus said:

"You'll see it first in practice: the execution of the calls, the speed. And then in the game, you want to see the hitting and the tackling. We want to be able to show the intensity of how we hit and how we knock things back and how we tackle. I thought that was solid today. That can always be better. Our strip attempts have to be better. We have to cause more fumbles, take away the ball more. We'll get after that this week."

That's a good sign!

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