Early alarm bells started to go off after the Chicago Bears allowed 34 points to the new-look Los Angeles Rams on Sunday Night Football in Week 1. Nobody expected the Bears offense to do anything of note with Andy Dalton behind center, but the defense was supposed to be good. They were projected as a top-10 defense by DVOA headed into the year, but they looked nowhere near that strong against the Rams. Now four weeks removed from that Week 1 meltdown, it is starting to feel like that game was an aberration more than anything.
The Bears are now the fifth-best defense by DVOA through five weeks.