The Bears defense lost two of its best players at the 2022 NFL trade deadline, but they’re holding themselves to the same standards as before.
“I told Ryan that,” Jackson said. “I appreciated him giving us a call and telling us what’s going on. You kind of need that. There are a lot of things that start floating around, especially in the locker room. Like, ‘They don’t take care of their guys. Or they don’t care about their guys.’ Or whatever the case may be. That was something pretty cool for them to come and talk to us as men. We get the business part of this. We respect that.
“The defense can be like two paths,” said Jackson. “Everybody can start thinking of their individual, ‘I’m going to get mine.’ Or we can come together like, ‘Look, man, this is what we’ve got. We’re all we’ve got. Let’s go out here and we can prove everybody right or we can prove everybody wrong.’ It’s all about how we react. We talk all the time about resilience. Right now it’s time to show true resilience for every man in this room.
That’s all well and good, but there’s also the small issue of replacing Quinn and Smith on the field. Quinn’s stats this season aren’t eye-popping, but he had disrupted plays and gave the Bears a reliable player on the edge. Smith is leading the NFL in tackles, so obviously the team will need to find a way to pick up that slack. Realistically, a variety of players will need to fill the voids, but defensive coordinator Alan Williams doesn’t want players to try to replace Quinn or Smith exactly.
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