I know what you wrote, but that defense missed Brian. All of a sudden we had what looked like a running game, for example. We all (every fan of every team) plus our own coaches--like to think it is all "on us" to execute or not execute--as the case may be... Of course that is true, but how can we sit here and at least acknowledge our own difficulties last year when certain key players went down for us..and the resulting (imo-exponential) impact it had... And not at the same time what seemed reasonably obvious to me that Da Bearce looked different--and not in any good way---when Urlacher got scraped off.
I say his loss was MAJOR. His "rating" is not even very relevant. His impact on that defense is...or was...to me...last eve, although I admit I was up to two whole beers plus two whole airline bottles of booze at or around that time.