Dave Wannstedt: Bears' defense is playing like Dennis Allen envisioned

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00:00What we're seeing on defense right now is really the Dennis Allen, that's what he wants to do,

00:06get up there. I mean, you look at every play almost, there's six to seven guys at the line

00:12of scrimmage. You don't know if they're going to rush three, four, five, six, or seven.

00:17The whole uncertainty, and everybody says, oh, you're doing that. You don't do that just to

00:23try to trick the quarterback. That helps your defensive linemen with blocking schemes. In

00:29other words, think about it. If I'm a guard and I've got a linebacker and I've got T.J. Edwards

00:37lined up on my nose, is he coming or is he dropping? Well, I can't go and help my center

00:44with the nose guard until I'm damn sure that he's not blitzing. So there's a little bit of

00:50hesitation. He drops out, and now all of a sudden it gives our defensive linemen a chance to be

00:56one-on-one just for a split second, but that's all they need. So you get a little bit more

01:00penetration, and you get a little bit more aggressiveness with your D-line. And when you

01:05look at the turnovers that the Bears defense got, one was because of pressure. One was great

01:11effort with Sweat coming around, stripping the ball. And then the last one, it was seven guys

01:18at the line drop out, play zone coverage, and it's a tip ball, the one Edmonds gets. So you get one

01:24because of a pressure, one because of an athletic ability a guy beats somebody, and then the next

01:29one is zoned. So they're coming in different ways, which I think is really good.

01:37So let's go ahead.