Brad Biggs: Chicago Bears Are ‘Moving on to Detroit’ — but They Won’t Go Far in Playoffs if Defense Doesn’t Improve

What we learned from the Chicago Bears, including seeking to avenge humiliating Week 2 loss at Detroit

The Detroit Lions won’t have anything but pride to play when they traipse into Soldier Field on Sunday, but that doesn’t mean the Chicago Bears will overlook them.

Brad Biggs: Chicago Bears are ‘moving on to Detroit’ — but they won’t go far in playoffs if defense doesn’t improve

CHICAGO — In the navy and orange afterglow of Sunday’s shootout loss to the San Francisco 49ers — the kind of ballgame your father’s Chicago Bears and his father’s aren’t accustomed to being in — there was a sentiment that…

Bears DC Dennis Allen vows to learn lessons after giving up 6 TDs to 49ers

Four days after giving up six touchdowns, defensive coordinator Dennis Allen said he wasn’t interested in litigating exactly what went wrong for the Bears.“We’ve kind of moved on, and we’re moving on to Detroit,” he said before practice Thursday. “I’ll say this — I don’t think I coached well enough last week. I don’t think we played well enough last week. And so, you learn your lessons.”The Bears need to learn them quickly. The Lions rank sixth …

Dennis Allen’s sidestepping aside, defense took drubbing vs. 49ers, has potential to be Bears’ undoing

Coordinator Dennis Allen had no specific answers for why the 49ers were able to torch his Bears defense for six touchdowns last week. In fact, as is his custom, he wasn’t even taking questions about it. “We’re moving on to Detroit,” Allen said Thursday. “I’ll say this — I don’t think I coached well enough last week. I don’t think we played well enough last week. So you learn your lessons. You make corrections that you need to make. Now we move f…

NFC Notes: Brian Flores, Bears, Lions, Vikings

Bears Bears DC Dennis Allen on giving up 42 points and 496 yards in Week 17 against the 49ers: “I’ll say this – I don’t think I coached well enough last week, I don’t think we played well enough last week. So, you learn your lessons, you make the corrections that you need to make. Now we move forward and we’re getting ready for Detroit.” (Courtney Cronin) Lions Lions HC Dan Campbell said the team not making the playoffs was “rock bottom” and sa…