Bears DC Dennis Allen vows to learn lessons after giving up 6 TDs to 49ers

Four days after giving up six touchdowns, defensive coordinator Dennis Allen said he wasn’t interested in litigating exactly what went wrong for the Bears.

“We've kind of moved on, and we're moving on to Detroit,” he said before practice Thursday. "I'll say this — I don't think I coached well enough last week. I don't think we played well enough last week. And so, you learn your lessons.”

The Bears need to learn them quickly. The Lions rank sixth in the NFL with 369.4 yards per game and third with 28.9 points per game. They’re bound to be dangerous Sunday even if they have nothing to play for. The Bears, of course, can earn the No. 2 seed in the playoffs with a victory at Soldier Field.

“It’s really just looking at ourselves in the mirror and correcting those things, and that starts with everybody,” linebacker Tremaine Edmunds said. “That’s just going out there and executing, making the plays when they present themselves.”

Namely, the Bears have to stop the Lions’ duo of Jahmyr Gibbs and David Montgomery, who ran for only 66 yards on 27 carries in a Christmas Day loss to the Vikings.

Sunday night, the Bears allowed the 49ers to run for 200 yards, the second-most they’ve given up all season long. The Raiders ran for more all the way back in Week 4.

“I think first and second down was a problem,” linebacker T.J. Edwards said. “[The 49ers] just kind of being able to dictate the terms, in terms of running the ball, the play action game, boot game, they weren't really off schedule. …, When it's second-and-two and third-and-one and, it's hard to get teams off the field, especially a really good offense like that.”