the Minnesota Vikings sacked Detroit's Matthew Stafford 10 times

On November 4 https://www.thebearsfanshop.com/Jim-Mcmahon-Jersey ,, and they were credited with 17 quarterback hits. In their very next game — following a bye week, mind you — against the Chicago Bears on Sunday Night Football, the vaunted Viking pass rush only got home one time, and they had two QB hits. Chicago’s pass protection wasn’t perfect on SNF, but in that situation, against that team, I was expecting much worse. According to Pro Football Focus, the Bears only allowed five hurries in the entire game. When the Vikings did break free, Mitchell Trubisky’s legs got him out of trouble more often than not. What we haven’t been seeing this year is the jail-break type of pressure from every angle attacking the Bears’ QB. If Trubiksy has a lane to escape, he usually makes a team pay. This is why defenses have started to spy him, which is great for Chicago, because if they have a defender spying, then he’s not covering. Let’s see where we stand in the Sackwatch after 10 games.2010 - 37 Martz2011 - 23 Martz2012 - 34 Tice2013 - 16 Trestman2014 - 24 Trestman2015 - 18 Gase2016 - 22 Loggains2017 - 25 Loggains2018 - 19 NagyI love the sacks numbers trending down. If the Bears can keep this up, they could become the least sacked team since the 2006 NFC Championship offense led by Olin Kreutz (25 sacks allowed).Sack 19 - First Quarter 7:16 - Eric WilsonThe Vikings are known for blitzing a bit, but they only came after Trubisky on 10 snaps. This was one of those times. They only sent five, but it was a well timed blitz by inside linebacker Eric Wilson (#50). The Vikings sit a defensive tackle in the B-Gap between right guard Bryan Witzmann and right tackle Bobby Massie, with a defensive end wide of Massie. Massie’s attention is to that DE, leaving Witzman responsible for the DT if he shot the B-Gap. He didn’t. He crossed Witzmann’s face, which should have alerted him that a game was afoot. Once the defensive lineman shot across, he should have passed him off to his center Cody Whitehair, and looked for a stunter or a blitzer. Had Witzmann not turned his shoulders with the DT, he probably would have had the base to slow down Wilson, but once he turned he was beat. This one is on Witzmann. Individual Sackwatch through 10 games:Sacks Happen - 6Mitchell Trubisky - 5Kyle Long - 2Bobby Massie - 2Charles Leno Jr. - 2Bryan Witzmann - 1Dion Sims - .5Eric Kush - .5 I gotta admit, it’s been brutal to be a hard core Chicago Bears fan for the last half decade. We have had to live with watching everything from frustrating inconsistency all the way down to blistering incompetence. We have had our hope raised only to be crushed time and again. From watching Lovie’s last team of old, hurt but talented players fade, though the hope and then absolute embarrassment of the Mark Trestman years... to see bad Jerry Angelo drafts followed by bad Phil Emory drafts, it was heartbreaking.We trotted out coordinators like Mel Tucker who was absolutely horrible Walter Payton Color Rush Jersey , and “Mr. throw my players under a bus” Aaron Kromer, both of whom stayed on LONG after it was apparent they should have been fired. Through all of this, the enigma that is Jay Cutler both thrilled us with unbelievable talent and appalled us with astoundingly careless regard for ball security... We had characters that, while immensely talented, were flawed teammates who caused distractions off the field and in the locker room. One player famously left town every week to do a national TV show, and that was OK with management. Another showed up to practice drunk, threatening everybody in sight.Moving on into the John Fox / Ryan Pace years, we knew we were in full-rebuild mode, and while Fox was at least able to get control of the locker room, Ryan Pace mostly whiffed on his first draft and we were all thinking “oh, no, not AGAIN!”Pace send problem players packing, but he didn’t do a very good job of replacing their on-field talent. Fox took control of the locker room and brought the program back into focus, and in his best move as our coach he brought in Vic Fangio to run the defense. Meanwhile, the offensive coordinator carousel turned, with the Bears seemingly installing a new system every year... or in the case of Dowell Logains, doing whatever it was he had them do (I’m not really sure to this date what that was, it sure wasn’t an offensive system...). We watched the wins dwindle: 10-6, 8-8, 5-11, 6-10, 3-13, 5-11Just. Brutal.But here you were, with us. You rooted. You supported, You shared your thoughts and feelings and frustrations, but yet you stayed with your team. You kept the faith.Then something truly changed. The Chicago Bears organization “went all in” with the drafting of potential franchise quarterback Mitchell Trubisky. Following one last year of offensive dysfunction as John Fox & company proved not to be the people you want developing a young quarterback (not to mention a huge talent deficit in the receiving corps) the Bears turned the corner.The defense, however, continued to develop under Vic Fangio Gale Sayers Jersey , ending the year as a top-ten squad full of very young talent. Ryan Pace admitted he had made mistakes, fired John Fox, got the “necessary but not glowing” contract extension that he needed to hire a new coach, and then he hired Matt Nagy.Nagy worked his tail off and did what most Bears fans would think the unthinkable just a year before... he convinced Vic Fangio to stay in Chicago and continue developing the already powerful Bears defense.After another strong draft by Pace (it’s hard to argue about the quality of his last two drafts), the Bears came into the season with some question marks (like how good would Mitchell Trubisky be) but one major hole... outside pass rushing.Then, Khalil Mack happened. With an entire team of starters under 30 years old (most WELL under 30), 8-3 has happened. Don’t get me wrong, nothing is locked up, nothing is set in stone. We still have 5 tough games to go this season and so far, we haven’t won anything but games. Still, we’ve seen VAST improvements on both sides of the ball, and we won’t have a losing season, no matter what! There’s a long road yet to go, but we are playing relevant football in December, baby!You deserve this year. You deserve right now. You deserve to enjoy the Chicago Bears return to relevance late in the season more than all of the “fair weather” fans who are going to start to jump on the Bears bandwagon now that we are competitive in the playoff race... It will be that much sweeter for you, and for me, because we never lost faith, we never gave up, and we never quit.As hard as it was, no matter how much crap we took from the other NFL fan bases, as much as it sucked, we never quit. So here’s my shout out to all of you long-time Windy City Gridiron readers, my fellow contributors and, frankly, to myself. It’s easy to be a “fan” when everything goes right for your team. We all know who the REAL fans are... because we’ve been together every day during the dark times, and we never once forgot to BEAR DOWN!