Please explain, what is it you remember most about him when he was playing?

DENT IS ONLY TELLING THE TRUTH.

Look at Ditka’s tenure in New Orleans. His Ricky Williams trade is one of the dumbest moves in league history.

Not to mention he didn’t get Walter a touchdown in the Super Bowl, he gave it to the Fridge instead.

Obviously, it’s not all on Ditka but that Bears team definitely should have made more than one Super Bowl.

To hear Chicago making excuses like this, and basically belittling other teams – degrades my opinion of them.

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I was with you 100%, until you claimed Richard Dent speaks on behalf of all members of the Bears. Yikes, dude! C’mon now!

Plus, don’t forget that Buddy Ryan left Chicago after they won that Super Bowl. In my opinion, as a fan, the defense did not adjust to the counter measures other teams were taking. Maybe Ryan’s absence was part of that… or maybe Ryan is also over-hyped….

Dent shouldn’t be blaming Ditka for any shortcomings those Bears teams had. Maybe they just weren’t that great.

Fuller remains in my memory the most timid NFLer I’ve ever seen, ANY position. But I’ve only been watching football for 50 years.
And Tomczak would go on in subsequent years to prove how incredibly sub mediocre he was. A classic dumbbell.

Dent and all the other players and coaches should look in the mirror. There was a definite dropoff in intensity and commitment after 1985. Like so many, once they got to the top of the hill, they lost focus.

Between ’86 and ’91 (Six years) three teams won the SB. No Mr Dent, there were better teams to win the SB than the Bears.

One is that the ’85 Bears defense was unsustainable. The Miami Dolphins pioneered the blueprint to counter the 46 defense. You want to flood the protection and rush 8+? Great., then we go quick-trigger and work the RAC/YAC yards — and you better not let the receiver break it.

Secondly, the ‘Niners of that era were BEASTS. In fact, one could argue the ’49′ers were really close to winning four straight. It took some interesting developments in their ’87 loss to the Vikings and some key breaks in their loss to the ’90 G-men.

Did the Vikes and Giants deserve to win those games? Absolutely. But the ’49′ers were STRONG.

And so were the Giants.

And don’t forget the Redskins – they put some special teams together too.

So when Dent tries to pin the Bears lack of Lombardis on Ditka – it sounds a lot like the lame old “You didn’t beat us – we beat ourselves” card.

My team is the Steelers, so I have nothing against Chicago and nothing for Miami, Washington, San Francisco or New York. Just trying to add what really bottlenecked Chicago from more titles. Their scheme was defeated by superior counter-measures, and they were also hampered by the superiority of the teams they competed with.

To hear Chicago making excuses like this, and basically belittling other teams – degrades my opinion of them.

IMO, the reason why they only won one Superbowl was because they were the most unfocused ‘hollywood’ group of players imaginable…..superbowl shuffle videos….at least eight guys wrote books…they were more focused on their press clippings than staying focused.

Glass houses……

Bears got upset at home in the second round of the 1986 Playoffs (aftr a bye ) to a very good Redskins team by a score of 27 -13 .
Bears held a halftime lead of 13 – 7 before Dents vaunted Bears D gave up 20 unanswered 2nd half points .

By the way -
None of the Bears Qbs played well that whole season ( even McMahon -b4 he got hurt … who by his own admission has publicly stated he was having a horrible season )