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Identifying the challenge

By Jeff Dickerson

Thursday, September 10, 2009

The Bears call it a "lead-weak." Maybe the Packers have a different name for it. Regardless of the proper terminology, "lead-weak" is the running play the Bears defense simply could not stop last year at Lambeau Field. "We just got to tackle and come off blocks," said Alex Brown. "[We've got to] stay in our gaps. We're a gap defense, so we got to make tackles. One guy, sometimes you might make that tackle by yourself. You might have to come off a block and make a tackle. We have to do that ...

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