@speedy23CHW This team should not be in the same sentence as ANY team because even if it was for one season this was the best football team ever and the 2011 Packers couldn't carry their jockstraps!
The reason teams are more "pass-heavy" these days is because of the protection rules. You can't hit a receiver and you can't hit a quarterback these days without getting flagged. Half of the hits on this highlight reel would be called personal fouls.
1985 Bears Defense was the greatest most exciting most hard hitting most fun defense in NFL history! Hell the entire 1985 Chicago Bears team was the greatest most fun and exciting hard hitting team ever in NFL History! Glad I saw it all as they have sadly not been much to brag about since at all.
@noeproductions I know Rodgers can run. But can Rodgers take a hit? Game changed a lot since.Brady and Manning would NOT make 1980's NFL.Soft since late 1990's.This was the REAL NFL
I didnt hear you there G@y Quitler, what was that? Who got belted in the NFC Championship game? Yea that's right Rodgers and the Packers SB XLV!!! '85 the last time the Bears were relevant
You won one. Remember the 49ers went 18-1 the year before you. Then won 3 more Super Bowls after your season before you sniffed one again. Shut up Cub
Imo the 85' Bears were the best team ever in the Super Bowl era. I get the Dolphins had a perfect season which is a great accomplishment. But hell, even those Dolphin players claim they're 73 team was their best team, better than the 72 perfect season. It's so tough to compare era's, but I'd love to see how the 85' Bears defense would fare against the 2011 Packers with all the wide outs. Again, it doesn't matter as I've never seen a better team compared to the rest of the league.
The 86 Bears Defense was better than the 85 one if possible! Had it not been for the Giants just being dominating themselves that year They could have repeated. Would have repeated had Buddy Ryan not gone to Philadelphia that next season!
@Kelski1998 The Bears would have repeated had Charles Matrin not pulled a "Suh" on McMahon which ended his season. The Packers were dirty then as Detroit is today. No Bear deliberately tore helmets off or stomped on a player on the ground. Most of what they did would still be legal today.
@drbayoms The Bears have had many glory years, of which the 80's were just a part, and no, I will not just shut up. You mucst be a Lion fan. Enjoy your one playoff game knowing that had Cutler and Forte not gotten hurt, your overrated team wouldn't even be in the playoffs.
Obviously biased being from Chicago- but I remember blogging against a Pats fan back and forth prior to the Giants upsetting them/ and saying... Look at the playoff run if the 85 Bears... He says No Brady would pick them apart... I say they got caught up in the hype for one game... Yada yada... Bottom line- the best effort from those Pats would've beaten the Giants... But the best effort from the 85 Bears would simply bitch slap ANY of the next best teams... Everyone knows it/ it was STACKED w
Would have loved to have seen a bears-fins rematch in the SB a month or so later. Unfortunately, the fins couldnt handle the upstart pats at home in the AFC title game.
There is only 1 defense I would rank above the 85 Bears. The Steelers of the 70's. But if we're just talking single season defense the 85 bears are #1.
@784Final True, very true. The Bears were so much into what they were doing that they forgot about Dan Marino's under pressure record. It was outstanding. They approached him wrong. This game sank my heart back in '85 when I was 14.
@lcvd1 If the Dolphins would've won against the Patriots and gone to the Superbowl, then I think that the Bears would've still won, but you wouldn't have seen so many bltizes you know?
@784Final The biggest reason the Bears lost that game, and not many people talk about this, was Ditka's insane idea to turn the game into a shootout between Marino and Steve Fuller. Early in the game, the Bears were winging the ball all over the field with a journeyman quarterback. The Bears had the best running game in the league then. Miami couldn't even pretend to stop the run. We should have lined up and ran the ball down Miami's throats. Would have also kept Marino off the field
You will never see defense like this again. NFL is worse in 2011 than 2010.Even less hitting.This defense would fuck up fake Brady.NFL is watered down now.This was the Real NFL.NFL is now borderline WWE.
@BlackOmario No. He was knocked out of the game, but he survived. It was probably that kind of play that eventually led to the pansy rules the NFL has begun adopting over the last 20 years: the officials themselves were getting scared of a defense like the '85 Bears had, and ever since, they've done more and more to coddle offenses, i.e. QBs and WRs.
Do the words Walter Payton mean anything to u the first 5 games of the season the offense carried them they allowed like 25+ points in 5 straight games.
Do the words Walter Payton mean anything to u the first 5 games of the season the offense carried them they allowed like 25+ points in 5 straight games.
The best defense has to be....the 74 steelers or the 2000 ravens both teams had great pass defense and both had great lineman well not great pass defense but the 85 bears had a average pass defense
See the late hits on QB Danny White and the other Dallas QB at 1:05. In todays game thats a flag and fine against most of todays QBs.1985 was when NFL WAS REAL NFL!!!
This 1985 Bears defense and the 1976 Steelers defense = Two best defenses ever in my view. Bears stats this year would have been even better had they not blown so many people out and cleared their bench in the 4th quarter in many games.
I wish there was a love button, I wonder what ass heads didn't like this vid even if you don't like the Bears you have to at least respect the '85 team!
@jpmacaluso Probably stupid kids that don't understand back in 1985 was when NFL was the REAL NFL. Today's NFL is now almost a 2 hand touch league, the game got soft. Now its all about these over protected no talent system QBs and flashy WRs that bitch about being hit.
Had Ryan not left, and Perry had continued playing for him, I don't think his modern health problems, i.e., ballooning to physically dangerous size, would have ever occurred. By Super Bowl XX, he had actually begun leaning down to perfect DL size, due to the 46 ferocity, and what it demanded of its players.
considerando el cambio de reglas del 78 y otros cambios que han favorecido a la ofensiva desde ese año, considero que esta defensiva de los osos era mejor que la de los acereros de los 70´s (no estoy hablando de la dinastia de los acereros sino solamente de la defensiva)
if some of those guys had been on different teams like Fencik, they wud be in the Hall of Fame but because they got shadowed by guys like Mike Singletary, they wont be
@aowyu They could compete against any team today, theres no offense that can consistently contain the bears defense, they were the best defense the game of football has ever known.
@UrdnotGrunt The 46 is used by several teams around the NFL. It's used situationally as that is what the game has evolved into, but it is still used every week so 0-16 is a fantasy of yours.
@kaYboi8o8 I strongly disagree...the 85 Bears get all the propaganda, mainly because the game has shifted, heavily in favor of the offense, since the early 1980's...what shocked alot of pundits, back in 85, was that a defense could be that good, in the face of a massive offensive explosion...in my opinion, the 76 Steelers had the greatest defense ever, for a single season...
@kaYboi8o8 If the 85 Bears were transplated into the 1970's, their defensive accomplishments wouldn't have been a big deal, because there were several teams, namely the Dolphins, Steelers, Cowboys, Vikings, Rams, Redskins, etc, all had great defenses...in the last nine games of the 1976 season, the Steelers gave up only 27 points...no team, not even the 85 Bears, could match that...
Our D has always had a rich D history. Even today there a pretty good D. But no D was better than 85 bears and i don think were gonna see one anytime soon.
Never again, will the NFL ever see a team with the sheer dominance of the 85' Bears. The absolute best defense and the best all around running back in the history of the game. A magical season that can never be taken away... the 85' Bears are eternal.
@djb333 really is that why in the nfl they got 72 sacks as a team and gave up the least amount of points its not living in the past if you respect history Da Bears are awesome
Ha-ha. I'll never forget watching that Dallas game in a bar with a few friends. 44-0 in Dallas. Couldn't have happen to a better team. Dallas, America's team.......yeah sure. LOL!!!!
Something also to keep in mind: the 1985 Chicago Bears were a team trained for years and years by Ryan to be, first and foremost, SMART, and a close second, FEROCIOUSLY tough. Teams that came after, trying to run this defensive formation, might've had the schemes in mind, but did they have players that had just plain learned to be brilliant at their highly adaptable positions.
Marino was not too good for Ryan. He just had a quick release. We were salivating for those lucky ass Dolphins in the Super Bowl. We would've absolutely demolished them. We were just too arrogant that night.
@sammansourou I think the Bears also lost that game because Steve Fuller was starting at QB rather than McMahon. And, unfortunately, the Dolphins were also motivated by not wanting to lose their still-intact perfect season in the record books.
Either the '85 Bears or the '00 Ravens was probably the best NFL defense ever. Hard to say which one of the two was the very best, it was certainly a joy to watch either one of them do their thing!
P.S. If the '85 Bears and the '00 Ravens had met in the Super Bowl, the final score would have been 3-0! :-)
I'm not a New York fan by ANY stretch, but I can only hope Rex Ryan can keep building something like it with the Jets, and WILL be a fan if their defensive schemes are -anything- like what this was.
It was literally awe-inspiring: "We got angry if they got a first down." Not in vital situations, please note; THROUGH THE WHOLE GAME.
It wasn't just the 46 Defense scheme, it was the 1985 lineup that could pull it off. If a team runs the 46 and the front six, maybe seven, maybe eight, can shed their blocks, it's simply slaughter in the backfield, especially the quarterback, no matter if there are timed passing routes or not, because the pocket is simply collapsing so fast. With THAT defense...the ULTIMATE defense...snap the ball, and you have one second of pocket. Good luck.
Ditka was right about the Dolphin game. Ryan's ego got clocked by a qb who was a little to good for his plan. Simms is one thing, but Marino was a different animal.
I believe the Baltimore Ravens also used a variation of the 46 Defense, or at the very least were influenced by it, when they destroyed team after team during their 2000-01 Super Bowl run. Not surprising though, considering that Rex Ryan, Buddy's son and now head coach of the N.Y. Jets, was part of the Raven's defensive coaching staff that year. Peace.
@Sierra688 They weren't better, they just refused to lost their status as being the only team ever in the league to go 17-0. They pulled out all the tops and took every chance they could manage to win and they did, but their still not better because the Bears won it all in the end.
@Sierra688 You're right about Marino...Dan Marino had, without a doubt, the fastest release of any quarterback in the history of the league...I watched highlights of the Week 13 Monday Night Game in 85, and one thing stood out...whenever Marino threw the ball, it always took exactly 3 seconds from "snap to throw"...what would be really cool, would be to see how Brees, Manning, Roethlisberger, and Brady would have fared against the 85 Bears "46"...
@GemCan78 Brees,Manning,and Brady are all over protected QBs today. Defensive players can't hit them without a bullshit flag and fine.Roethlisberger is the only REAL QB you named.Different game now. 1985 Bears would NOT dominate with these new baby garbage rules by Fraud Roger Goodell. Not even real football anymore. Brady boy would not last in 1980's NFL. Brady not tough enough and that goes for the rest of over protected QBs today
@skywalker71903 You're absolutely right...just look at the fact that, in 2009, ten QB's threw for at least 4,000 yards...that's ridiculous...only two or three teams, in the current NFL, have even adequate defenses, comparable to the defenses of the past...
@GemCan78 Yes and all the sudden you have all these "SUPERSTAR WRS" only cuz of rules.1980's and 1990's you had maybe 10 superstar WR . Maybe not even that. Actually there are no great defensive teams cuz of rules. Steelers Defense, one of the better defensive teams stunk it up a few times cuz of rules not Steelers players. NY Giants too stunk it up a few times. Its almost impossible to build Great Defense now.Defensive players can't even touch Brady boy without flag and bullshit fine.
AWESOME VID, thanks for posting. Their D has been suspect under Lovies watch, at times showing brilliance. Hopefully they can finish strong the rest of the season and make much needed changes going into next season. Go Bears!
man now its sad now and these days that the bears are so terrible at the game......but yah the 1985 bears were dominate that nobody couldnt beat us except those dophlons......but now and these days we need the 1985 bears too help the bears :)
The explanation of the "46" is kind of weak sauce. Are you telling me the Bears actually sent the front seven and a safety on every play in that scheme? While a great safety, Gary Fencik was by no means a pass rusher.
I went to all the Bears home games in 1984 through 1987 and in those years I remember them sending as many as 9 men in on a frequent basis....at least 2 to 3 times a game. Especially in the 1984 and 1985 seasons. 1n 1985 there were only 2 men down field on one play due to a confused player chnge when nine men rushed and a cornerback was never replaced for Leslie Frazier who was winded from the previous play. Good Thing the sack was executed!
Too bad Leslie didn't look very winded when he schemed the Vikes defense to a win last Sunday against our Bears. I guess nine men coming is possible on a third and incredibly long situation. What is amazing from those old defenses is that Singletary, Wilson and Marshall each had more sacks in a season than Urlacher, Briggs and Hillenmeyer have had in their entire careers nearly.
You seem to know about about the 1980's Bears-By looking at your picture(age),I wouldn't have guessed you would've been old enough to attend these games.
That was a different era, the game had much more money in it just a decade later and there were players motivated to get their share causing a more copetitive league by the 1980's just a handful of years later. Same thing happened in the MLB. Not quite yet at that point for the other pro leagues I believe though. I am probably incorrect in my opinion...there had to be lots of factors but the Bears would have dismantled the 1972 Dolphins. No offense to Miami fans. Its a widespread sentiment.
Best defense ever. But give credit to Jerry Glanville and his Gritz Blitz defense with the Falcons in the 70's. They were the first to do this. Ryan was second. And the Gritz Blitz D still has the record for the fewest points per game average. Allowing only 9.2 points per game.
The Falcons did NOT have that 9.2 avg. ppg!!! BullCrap. The Ravens of 2000 and the Bears of 1985 are the 2 lowest (I think). If they are not I still know the Atlanta Falcons never for a full season held that avg yds allowed maybe for the end of one year and the beginning of the next but not one season straight thru. The 197...6 or 8 Steelers averaged a real few amount too in 2 less (14) games.
@crabbigail2007 I believe it was the '75 Atlanta Falcons that hold the record for the least amount of pts/game in the Super Bowl era, followed by the '76 Steelers. It was a different era, with more running and less scoring. In '78 there were some rules changes to allow more passing and scoring, so it's hard to compare.
YOU WON'T SEE A DEFENSE LIKE THIS AGAIN WITH THAT BITCH GOODELL AS COMMISIONER
DELTAFORCE662 3 weeks ago
NOW! HERES FOOTBALL!
FridgeratedMicrowave 1 month ago 2
this team can beat the 2011 packers,if the chief can anybody can
speedy23CHW 2 months ago 2
@speedy23CHW This team should not be in the same sentence as ANY team because even if it was for one season this was the best football team ever and the 2011 Packers couldn't carry their jockstraps!
gvader 1 month ago
chills baby chills
wilbur was scary i mean frightening
what a dream year it was to be a fan
every week man e-v-e-r-y week was a blast
and best of all #34 got his ring
t/y for he tuber
JustAintthatWay 2 months ago
ditka looks like a used car salesmen still
xxxMental187xxx 2 months ago 2
The reason teams are more "pass-heavy" these days is because of the protection rules. You can't hit a receiver and you can't hit a quarterback these days without getting flagged. Half of the hits on this highlight reel would be called personal fouls.
murdockqotsa 2 months ago
Bears are like the best team in the nfl Not much today but back then they were the best
Minecraftguy00 2 months ago
85 bears>72 dolphins
mutarrr 2 months ago
1985 Bears Defense was the greatest most exciting most hard hitting most fun defense in NFL history! Hell the entire 1985 Chicago Bears team was the greatest most fun and exciting hard hitting team ever in NFL History! Glad I saw it all as they have sadly not been much to brag about since at all.
PRHILL9696 3 months ago
75% of those hits are illegal now. Football is for pansies now.
pretorious700 3 months ago
@pretorious700 .......AGREED....100%
DJhiphouse 3 months ago
@pretorious700 Sad but true. I REALLY miss those fun days of real true football. Today it is so damn boring!!
PRHILL9696 3 months ago
too bad Aaron Rodgers disliked this video 3 times
noeproductions 3 months ago 17
@noeproductions I know Rodgers can run. But can Rodgers take a hit? Game changed a lot since.Brady and Manning would NOT make 1980's NFL.Soft since late 1990's.This was the REAL NFL
DELTAFORCE662 2 months ago
@noeproductions
I didnt hear you there G@y Quitler, what was that? Who got belted in the NFC Championship game? Yea that's right Rodgers and the Packers SB XLV!!! '85 the last time the Bears were relevant
ttrain5450 2 months ago
@noeproductions that shit made my night ... too funny
xxxMental187xxx 2 months ago
You won one. Remember the 49ers went 18-1 the year before you. Then won 3 more Super Bowls after your season before you sniffed one again. Shut up Cub
1st5time 3 months ago
Imo the 85' Bears were the best team ever in the Super Bowl era. I get the Dolphins had a perfect season which is a great accomplishment. But hell, even those Dolphin players claim they're 73 team was their best team, better than the 72 perfect season. It's so tough to compare era's, but I'd love to see how the 85' Bears defense would fare against the 2011 Packers with all the wide outs. Again, it doesn't matter as I've never seen a better team compared to the rest of the league.
toeazy34 3 months ago
@toeazy34
The 86 Bears Defense was better than the 85 one if possible! Had it not been for the Giants just being dominating themselves that year They could have repeated. Would have repeated had Buddy Ryan not gone to Philadelphia that next season!
Kelski1998 3 months ago
@Kelski1998 The Bears would have repeated had Charles Matrin not pulled a "Suh" on McMahon which ended his season. The Packers were dirty then as Detroit is today. No Bear deliberately tore helmets off or stomped on a player on the ground. Most of what they did would still be legal today.
Mozart1220 2 months ago
@Mozart1220
The Bears suck. These were their glory years. Enjoy them like we all did, but please, shut the fuck up.
drbayoms 1 month ago
@drbayoms The Bears have had many glory years, of which the 80's were just a part, and no, I will not just shut up. You mucst be a Lion fan. Enjoy your one playoff game knowing that had Cutler and Forte not gotten hurt, your overrated team wouldn't even be in the playoffs.
Mozart1220 1 month ago
Wish Chicago was still like this FUCK U MIAMI
Minecraftguy00 3 months ago 3
this video is even beutiful to watch
godkiller2917 3 months ago
Obviously biased being from Chicago- but I remember blogging against a Pats fan back and forth prior to the Giants upsetting them/ and saying... Look at the playoff run if the 85 Bears... He says No Brady would pick them apart... I say they got caught up in the hype for one game... Yada yada... Bottom line- the best effort from those Pats would've beaten the Giants... But the best effort from the 85 Bears would simply bitch slap ANY of the next best teams... Everyone knows it/ it was STACKED w
neocant1 3 months ago
from 6:10 onwards i can't bear to watch
hondansx1000 4 months ago
@hondansx1000 i see what you did there
jzamaus 3 months ago
@jzamaus u'know i actually hadn't realised what i did there until you pointed it out
hondansx1000 3 months ago
This wasn't football this was sending sheep for BEARS to slaughter.
Why isnt this kind of football played anymore?
lancerlot71 4 months ago
pause at 4:55 wow look at that bear chasing a cowboy
gtak13 4 months ago
@gtak13 Not a cowboy but a lion
Ddgolem12 4 months ago in playlist DA BEARS!
@Ddgolem12 lol either way hes gonna die
gtak13 3 months ago
Then again let's not forget the 1976 Steelers defense. Look them up.
jmk8646 4 months ago
Would have loved to have seen a bears-fins rematch in the SB a month or so later. Unfortunately, the fins couldnt handle the upstart pats at home in the AFC title game.
rawn4203 4 months ago
"In 1985 NO ONE figured it out!" BEARS!!!!
dkbadass 4 months ago
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dkbadass 4 months ago
Jesus christ...what a team. Headed by the real chuck norris....MIKE FUCKING DITKA!
rgrmatt69 4 months ago
There is only 1 defense I would rank above the 85 Bears. The Steelers of the 70's. But if we're just talking single season defense the 85 bears are #1.
jmk8646 4 months ago
They dominated everyone but the dolphins.
XxChrisxX205 4 months ago
Saying the Cowboys are "Americas' team" shows disrespect for every other team. It was a stupid saying then and it's a stupid saying now.
tjrxk7 4 months ago
@tjrxk7 not really. they earned that name.
lilzander84 4 months ago
The main reason the Bears lost to the Dolphins was because they blitzed Dan Marino, a guy who has the quickest release ever seen on a QB.
784Final 5 months ago 12
@784Final True, very true. The Bears were so much into what they were doing that they forgot about Dan Marino's under pressure record. It was outstanding. They approached him wrong. This game sank my heart back in '85 when I was 14.
lcvd1 4 months ago
@lcvd1 but even still, there were some balls that should of never been caught
swooshy117 4 months ago
@lcvd1 If the Dolphins would've won against the Patriots and gone to the Superbowl, then I think that the Bears would've still won, but you wouldn't have seen so many bltizes you know?
784Final 4 months ago
@784Final The biggest reason the Bears lost that game, and not many people talk about this, was Ditka's insane idea to turn the game into a shootout between Marino and Steve Fuller. Early in the game, the Bears were winging the ball all over the field with a journeyman quarterback. The Bears had the best running game in the league then. Miami couldn't even pretend to stop the run. We should have lined up and ran the ball down Miami's throats. Would have also kept Marino off the field
67bobbyg 4 months ago
Those were the day's! I'll never forget how dominant the Bears were back then and the Superbowl was a complete blowout!
justentime77 5 months ago
You will never see defense like this again. NFL is worse in 2011 than 2010.Even less hitting.This defense would fuck up fake Brady.NFL is watered down now.This was the Real NFL.NFL is now borderline WWE.
skywalker7327 5 months ago 2
LMAO...WILBER MARSHALL FUCKED THAT QB UP ON THAT 5:00 mark
dcarm22 5 months ago
No doubt about it....the '85 Bears best team ever !!! And the most colourful !!!
whaddupmf 5 months ago
Did the QB die at 5:00 min?
BlackOmario 5 months ago
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VampireYoshi 5 months ago
@BlackOmario No. He was knocked out of the game, but he survived. It was probably that kind of play that eventually led to the pansy rules the NFL has begun adopting over the last 20 years: the officials themselves were getting scared of a defense like the '85 Bears had, and ever since, they've done more and more to coddle offenses, i.e. QBs and WRs.
VampireYoshi 5 months ago
Singletary was the heart and soul of the defense with Hampton, Marshall, and Dent doing the destruction
bg147 5 months ago
When u get hit like the quarterback got hit by Marshall at 4:49 theres no way to hold on to the ball I dont care who u are!
Kayoticbeats 5 months ago
This is stupid, the NFL taking down segments of this program. It's on for free at Hulu. com, episode XX of America's Game.
VampireYoshi 6 months ago
I Love the Bears
delamostewie 6 months ago
Why are they showing Ditka, 85 bears was all about defense, Buddy Ryan's team.
Novinte 6 months ago
@Novinte
Do the words Walter Payton mean anything to u the first 5 games of the season the offense carried them they allowed like 25+ points in 5 straight games.
chitownbulls123 5 months ago
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@Novinte
Do the words Walter Payton mean anything to u the first 5 games of the season the offense carried them they allowed like 25+ points in 5 straight games.
chitownbulls123 5 months ago
The best defense has to be....the 74 steelers or the 2000 ravens both teams had great pass defense and both had great lineman well not great pass defense but the 85 bears had a average pass defense
blinkorn 6 months ago
@blinkorn the 85 bears were the best defense ever.. that most of the time the qb cudnt get a pass off
numbabeast51 6 months ago
@blinkorn
fucking hater get out of here the steelers had a good offense and the ravens didnt get as many sacks. we still got the record 70+ sacks in one season
chitownbulls123 5 months ago
See the late hits on QB Danny White and the other Dallas QB at 1:05. In todays game thats a flag and fine against most of todays QBs.1985 was when NFL WAS REAL NFL!!!
skywalker71903 6 months ago
Its a damn shame the Bears have only been to one other Super Bowl since!
Kelski1998 6 months ago
@Kelski1998 And got Grossmanned out of a win
miamihurricanes471 6 months ago
@miamihurricanes471
the D lost that super bowl as well........two straight deep pass TDs against out Pro Bowl corners
plus 2 fumbles by Olin
JordanSanders1991 6 months ago
@miamihurricanes471
and of course poor tackling and a pick-6
JordanSanders1991 6 months ago
This 1985 Bears defense and the 1976 Steelers defense = Two best defenses ever in my view. Bears stats this year would have been even better had they not blown so many people out and cleared their bench in the 4th quarter in many games.
kwolf68 7 months ago
Dam I Love the Bears!!!
delamostewie 7 months ago
2 people cant catch a football
msk1170 7 months ago
I wish there was a love button, I wonder what ass heads didn't like this vid even if you don't like the Bears you have to at least respect the '85 team!
jpmacaluso 8 months ago
@jpmacaluso Probably stupid kids that don't understand back in 1985 was when NFL was the REAL NFL. Today's NFL is now almost a 2 hand touch league, the game got soft. Now its all about these over protected no talent system QBs and flashy WRs that bitch about being hit.
skywalker71903 7 months ago
gotta love mike
nuglife44 8 months ago
You won't see a defense like this again with Roger Goodell. NFL today is very anti-defense.QBs are way over protected.Not even REAL football anymore
skywalker71903 9 months ago
da the bears r the shit
josetafoya2 9 months ago
GO, BEARS THE MONSTRRS OF THE MIDWAY
delamostewie 10 months ago
Had Ryan not left, and Perry had continued playing for him, I don't think his modern health problems, i.e., ballooning to physically dangerous size, would have ever occurred. By Super Bowl XX, he had actually begun leaning down to perfect DL size, due to the 46 ferocity, and what it demanded of its players.
VampireYoshi 11 months ago
who was dolphins qb
nuglife44 11 months ago
da bears
McGEE17201 11 months ago
considerando el cambio de reglas del 78 y otros cambios que han favorecido a la ofensiva desde ese año, considero que esta defensiva de los osos era mejor que la de los acereros de los 70´s (no estoy hablando de la dinastia de los acereros sino solamente de la defensiva)
supergacela 1 year ago
if some of those guys had been on different teams like Fencik, they wud be in the Hall of Fame but because they got shadowed by guys like Mike Singletary, they wont be
nfldude28 1 year ago
DAAAAAAAA BEARS
Mrbumbleb3 1 year ago
Man I wish I could've seen the 85 bears defense go to work.
drewskyGALE 1 year ago
after 6:22 i cnt watch
hondansx1000 1 year ago
If we could take all superbowl teams that were the best of their year, the 85' bears would still be the best
GhostXoP 1 year ago
most dominat team ever
haosbakuganking2 1 year ago
that defense would lead the nfl in penalties as the rules are set now
teesteven 1 year ago
if the bears would be like the 85 bears every year they would win the most superbowls than any other team
fred23derf 1 year ago
does anybody know where i can watch the full special on this
SlowMoFastNGo 1 year ago
@SlowMoFastNGo itunes
omgnoobz 1 year ago
@SlowMoFastNGo you tube; "chicago bears '85 super bowl champions" parts 1-5
1223baddad 8 months ago
does anybody know where i can watch the full special on this
SlowMoFastNGo 1 year ago
Wilber Marshall was awesome and he always seems to be forgotten with the 85 Bears. He was simply AMAZING.
Denton9176 1 year ago
How well do you think the 85 Bears would do in this modern era?
aowyu 1 year ago
@aowyu They could compete against any team today, theres no offense that can consistently contain the bears defense, they were the best defense the game of football has ever known.
kaYboi8o8 1 year ago
There's a reason nobody uses the 46 anymore. Talented team obviously, but with that scheme they would go 0-16 in 2011.
UrdnotGrunt 1 year ago
@UrdnotGrunt
Nobody in the game today can run 46 defense like the 85 bears did.
kaYboi8o8 1 year ago
@UrdnotGrunt The 46 is used by several teams around the NFL. It's used situationally as that is what the game has evolved into, but it is still used every week so 0-16 is a fantasy of yours.
RAIDERZ52 1 year ago
@kaYboi8o8 I strongly disagree...the 85 Bears get all the propaganda, mainly because the game has shifted, heavily in favor of the offense, since the early 1980's...what shocked alot of pundits, back in 85, was that a defense could be that good, in the face of a massive offensive explosion...in my opinion, the 76 Steelers had the greatest defense ever, for a single season...
GemCan78 8 months ago
@kaYboi8o8 If the 85 Bears were transplated into the 1970's, their defensive accomplishments wouldn't have been a big deal, because there were several teams, namely the Dolphins, Steelers, Cowboys, Vikings, Rams, Redskins, etc, all had great defenses...in the last nine games of the 1976 season, the Steelers gave up only 27 points...no team, not even the 85 Bears, could match that...
GemCan78 8 months ago
Question : How ( or better yet Why) is Richard Dent NOT in the Hall Of Fame
ND7652 1 year ago
25 years ago this season that the epic shutout took place.
My Bears face the Cowboys once again in Texas this Sunday.
In the '85 game, Bears knocked out White. Last week, Bears knocked out Stafford. I'm expecting they do the same to Romo.
DALLAS,
WHATCA GONNA DO WHEN THE MONSTERS OF THE MIDWAY RUN WILD ON YOU????!!!!!!
ultraback29 1 year ago
Our D has always had a rich D history. Even today there a pretty good D. But no D was better than 85 bears and i don think were gonna see one anytime soon.
crazytime666 1 year ago
What's the name of the song that's playing while the Bears are shitting all over Dallas?
TheChawMan 1 year ago
Never again, will the NFL ever see a team with the sheer dominance of the 85' Bears. The absolute best defense and the best all around running back in the history of the game. A magical season that can never be taken away... the 85' Bears are eternal.
rickprevidi 1 year ago 2
Bears were not that good just a down year in the NFL...Typical Bears Fans still living in 1985 how sad....
djb333 1 year ago
@djb333 really is that why in the nfl they got 72 sacks as a team and gave up the least amount of points its not living in the past if you respect history Da Bears are awesome
MegaSciFiGuy 1 year ago
Love the slow piano at the 44-0 scoreboard.
rogueamp 1 year ago
i can probably name at least 10 super bowl teams with at least one lose that were better than the 72 dolphins
sharpshooter168 1 year ago
new fave 'tube ... sorry old shytown bearnut from wayback
so cool to hear samurai tell the tale here
man what an effing blast that year was e-p-i-c doesnt even come close
to describing the year long buzz
even that loss now - in hindsight - was ok like singletary says
it was almost necessary to refocus the welding torch death ray those dudes
had lit together
ditka & ryan two lunatics in charge of a truly insanely aggresive mob hellbent
for glory
sweet jesus it was beautiful
JustAintthatWay 1 year ago
Ha-ha. I'll never forget watching that Dallas game in a bar with a few friends. 44-0 in Dallas. Couldn't have happen to a better team. Dallas, America's team.......yeah sure. LOL!!!!
VanGoghsEar1890 1 year ago
DA BEARS who else has ever done that to the cowboys 1985 bears = best team ever wish i would have been alive to see this season
joshfromil222 1 year ago
25th Anniversary.
Thank you '85 Bears. You're the reason why I watch the game at all levels.
BEARS IN 2010!
ultraback29 1 year ago
1 Dallas fan didn't like this video-LOL
316greg 1 year ago
Something also to keep in mind: the 1985 Chicago Bears were a team trained for years and years by Ryan to be, first and foremost, SMART, and a close second, FEROCIOUSLY tough. Teams that came after, trying to run this defensive formation, might've had the schemes in mind, but did they have players that had just plain learned to be brilliant at their highly adaptable positions.
VampireYoshi 1 year ago
Oh my god, thank you so much for this video. It was the greates thing i have ever seen.
roystagger 1 year ago
Thats Chicago Bear defense for you.
JeffyMustardCrayola 1 year ago
defense wins championships! thats all there is 2 it
mrsansty 1 year ago
I am a born and bred Redskins fan but I have much respect for the Bears
redskinsfan4life87 1 year ago
@redskinsfan4life87 respect back at you for that comment
JustAintthatWay 1 year ago
1985 was the greatest year in the history of the World..DA BEARS SUPER BOWL CHAMPS!
316greg 1 year ago
nobody figured it out they were al re tards kidding buht seriously nobody figured it out.
onnimod50 1 year ago
Marino was not too good for Ryan. He just had a quick release. We were salivating for those lucky ass Dolphins in the Super Bowl. We would've absolutely demolished them. We were just too arrogant that night.
sammansourou 1 year ago
@sammansourou I think the Bears also lost that game because Steve Fuller was starting at QB rather than McMahon. And, unfortunately, the Dolphins were also motivated by not wanting to lose their still-intact perfect season in the record books.
danning1 1 year ago
Either the '85 Bears or the '00 Ravens was probably the best NFL defense ever. Hard to say which one of the two was the very best, it was certainly a joy to watch either one of them do their thing!
P.S. If the '85 Bears and the '00 Ravens had met in the Super Bowl, the final score would have been 3-0! :-)
danning1 1 year ago
3 reasons why the Ravens were not as good.
1. Rex Ryan was the Ravens coord
2. Singletary was their linebacker coach. Both protege's of the great Ryan.
3. Noone has ever, ever shutout back to back opponents in the playoffs except for the Bears.
sammansourou 1 year ago
@sammansourou To be fair, the Rams blew it at the end of the 1st half in the playoffs.....they should have had a fg.
OTOH, the patriots got a TD late in the SB against 3rd stringers.
jojopuppyfish 1 year ago
@danning1 You need to watch the Bears vs Dallas 1985 44-0
Watch it.....then come back to me and say that anyone was better than the bears D
jojopuppyfish 1 year ago
I'm not a New York fan by ANY stretch, but I can only hope Rex Ryan can keep building something like it with the Jets, and WILL be a fan if their defensive schemes are -anything- like what this was.
It was literally awe-inspiring: "We got angry if they got a first down." Not in vital situations, please note; THROUGH THE WHOLE GAME.
VampireYoshi 1 year ago
buddy ball.
MrDavshammer 1 year ago
The NFL has become too SOFT for something like this to ever brew again...
Bears0wnPackers 1 year ago 5
It wasn't just the 46 Defense scheme, it was the 1985 lineup that could pull it off. If a team runs the 46 and the front six, maybe seven, maybe eight, can shed their blocks, it's simply slaughter in the backfield, especially the quarterback, no matter if there are timed passing routes or not, because the pocket is simply collapsing so fast. With THAT defense...the ULTIMATE defense...snap the ball, and you have one second of pocket. Good luck.
VampireYoshi 2 years ago 11
Ditka was right about the Dolphin game. Ryan's ego got clocked by a qb who was a little to good for his plan. Simms is one thing, but Marino was a different animal.
Sierra688 2 years ago 29
Yeah and how much the NFL favors the pass today is why i think the 46 wouldn't succeed in the NFL today and why no one no longer uses it.
Aso21Raiders 2 years ago
@Aso21Raiders
I believe the Baltimore Ravens also used a variation of the 46 Defense, or at the very least were influenced by it, when they destroyed team after team during their 2000-01 Super Bowl run. Not surprising though, considering that Rex Ryan, Buddy's son and now head coach of the N.Y. Jets, was part of the Raven's defensive coaching staff that year. Peace.
danning1 1 year ago
@danning1 They didn't run any variation of the 46 defense. They ran a 4-3 defense with their DT's (Tony Siragusa and Sam Adams) as 2 Gappers.
Aso21Raiders 1 year ago
@danning1 They ran some sets of it but their base defense was the 4-3.
Aso21Raiders 1 year ago
@Sierra688 that game in Miami was Marino's super bowl. The only qb to beat the bears.
thewolfmanchu 1 year ago
@thewolfmanchu ..the Fuller led Bears...
rjst09 1 year ago
@Sierra688 They weren't better, they just refused to lost their status as being the only team ever in the league to go 17-0. They pulled out all the tops and took every chance they could manage to win and they did, but their still not better because the Bears won it all in the end.
kookoo78 1 year ago
@Sierra688 You're right about Marino...Dan Marino had, without a doubt, the fastest release of any quarterback in the history of the league...I watched highlights of the Week 13 Monday Night Game in 85, and one thing stood out...whenever Marino threw the ball, it always took exactly 3 seconds from "snap to throw"...what would be really cool, would be to see how Brees, Manning, Roethlisberger, and Brady would have fared against the 85 Bears "46"...
GemCan78 8 months ago
@GemCan78 Brees,Manning,and Brady are all over protected QBs today. Defensive players can't hit them without a bullshit flag and fine.Roethlisberger is the only REAL QB you named.Different game now. 1985 Bears would NOT dominate with these new baby garbage rules by Fraud Roger Goodell. Not even real football anymore. Brady boy would not last in 1980's NFL. Brady not tough enough and that goes for the rest of over protected QBs today
skywalker71903 7 months ago
@skywalker71903 You're absolutely right...just look at the fact that, in 2009, ten QB's threw for at least 4,000 yards...that's ridiculous...only two or three teams, in the current NFL, have even adequate defenses, comparable to the defenses of the past...
GemCan78 7 months ago
@GemCan78 Yes and all the sudden you have all these "SUPERSTAR WRS" only cuz of rules.1980's and 1990's you had maybe 10 superstar WR . Maybe not even that. Actually there are no great defensive teams cuz of rules. Steelers Defense, one of the better defensive teams stunk it up a few times cuz of rules not Steelers players. NY Giants too stunk it up a few times. Its almost impossible to build Great Defense now.Defensive players can't even touch Brady boy without flag and bullshit fine.
skywalker71903 7 months ago
AWESOME VID, thanks for posting. Their D has been suspect under Lovies watch, at times showing brilliance. Hopefully they can finish strong the rest of the season and make much needed changes going into next season. Go Bears!
DJ100674 2 years ago
there not terrible, urlachers out, jay cutler is an interception machine and we can't stop the pass, were not terrible were just very mediocre
gobears541 2 years ago 2
man now its sad now and these days that the bears are so terrible at the game......but yah the 1985 bears were dominate that nobody couldnt beat us except those dophlons......but now and these days we need the 1985 bears too help the bears :)
TheJason7002 2 years ago
The explanation of the "46" is kind of weak sauce. Are you telling me the Bears actually sent the front seven and a safety on every play in that scheme? While a great safety, Gary Fencik was by no means a pass rusher.
hotroute 2 years ago
Agreed.
BillyandJoe520 2 years ago
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thethoma 2 years ago
I went to all the Bears home games in 1984 through 1987 and in those years I remember them sending as many as 9 men in on a frequent basis....at least 2 to 3 times a game. Especially in the 1984 and 1985 seasons. 1n 1985 there were only 2 men down field on one play due to a confused player chnge when nine men rushed and a cornerback was never replaced for Leslie Frazier who was winded from the previous play. Good Thing the sack was executed!
crabbigail2007 2 years ago
Too bad Leslie didn't look very winded when he schemed the Vikes defense to a win last Sunday against our Bears. I guess nine men coming is possible on a third and incredibly long situation. What is amazing from those old defenses is that Singletary, Wilson and Marshall each had more sacks in a season than Urlacher, Briggs and Hillenmeyer have had in their entire careers nearly.
hotroute 2 years ago
yeah the Bears had a record 72 in '84 and followed it with 68 I think in the SuperBowl '85 year.
crabbigail2007 2 years ago
You seem to know about about the 1980's Bears-By looking at your picture(age),I wouldn't have guessed you would've been old enough to attend these games.
ironworkerjeff 2 years ago
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ironworkerjeff 2 years ago
The '72 Dolphins can go away any time, f'ing pansies.
biggerdeck 2 years ago
That was a different era, the game had much more money in it just a decade later and there were players motivated to get their share causing a more copetitive league by the 1980's just a handful of years later. Same thing happened in the MLB. Not quite yet at that point for the other pro leagues I believe though. I am probably incorrect in my opinion...there had to be lots of factors but the Bears would have dismantled the 1972 Dolphins. No offense to Miami fans. Its a widespread sentiment.
crabbigail2007 2 years ago
Best defense ever. But give credit to Jerry Glanville and his Gritz Blitz defense with the Falcons in the 70's. They were the first to do this. Ryan was second. And the Gritz Blitz D still has the record for the fewest points per game average. Allowing only 9.2 points per game.
TheOpiumDistrict 2 years ago
The Falcons did NOT have that 9.2 avg. ppg!!! BullCrap. The Ravens of 2000 and the Bears of 1985 are the 2 lowest (I think). If they are not I still know the Atlanta Falcons never for a full season held that avg yds allowed maybe for the end of one year and the beginning of the next but not one season straight thru. The 197...6 or 8 Steelers averaged a real few amount too in 2 less (14) games.
crabbigail2007 2 years ago
Yes they did! 129 in 14 games. Check nflreference(dot)com if you doubt me. The Gritz Blitz were the best. It's just they had no offense.
TheOpiumDistrict 2 years ago
Jerry Glanville's Gritz Blitz was an exceptional defense. Besides you gotta love a defense with a linebacker named Fulton Kykendall (sp).
dross1454 2 years ago
@dross1454
Could use him now at LB.
TheOpiumDistrict 1 year ago
@crabbigail2007 I believe it was the '75 Atlanta Falcons that hold the record for the least amount of pts/game in the Super Bowl era, followed by the '76 Steelers. It was a different era, with more running and less scoring. In '78 there were some rules changes to allow more passing and scoring, so it's hard to compare.
puertoricanblues 1 year ago
3 things I wish I could've seen in person:
3. Meteor that wiped out the dino's
2. Battle of the Bulge
1. 1985-1986 Bears Season
onejordangerous 2 years ago 56
Completely agree. Except the Bears are at #1, Bulge at #2.
chicago85bearz 2 years ago
@onejordangerous
No, because it probably would've got you killed in all 3 instances lol
darthrevan6 1 year ago
@onejordangerous now that's a compliment!...I don't have a #2 or #3 yet...
kathsherman 1 year ago
@onejordangerous me2-
DJhiphouse 1 year ago
@onejordangerous I think that seeing those 3 things in person would've killed you!
leflipmo 1 year ago