After picking apart the Commanders porous defense on Thursday night, Bears offensive lineman Teven Jenkins called out Washington’s defensive unit for showing “weak” rotations in the eventual 40-20 rout.
“Like safety rotations,” Jenkins said, via Nicki Jhabvala of the Washington Post. “False rotations, all of that. They’d go like cover two, then it was like a false cover two and they’d show one. One comes back, fills the hole, fills the gap. Couple times they were trying to give false looks and it seemed like some of the guys either weren’t aware or they were just being lazy about making the shift and that led to some really open plays for us.”
It certainly isn’t what Washington fans want to see from an opponent, as the defense was supposed to be the strength of the team this season. But so far, Jack Del Rio’s group is letting up the second-most points per game in the league, trailing only the lowly Broncos, who also fell behind big to Chicago in their last game, but were able to mount a massive comeback.
The Commanders couldn’t complete a comeback of their own, mainly because the defense couldn’t stop Justin Fields and D.J. Moore, leaving many fans to call for Del Rio’s job.
