Buddy Ryan Bears total commitment defense.. they weren't flashy or fancy ...they just got it done. They played hard and for each other... Best defense ever.
Growing up, after this game anytime a punt was shanked when we would play pick-up games of football it was called "a theisman punt." I just had to LOL when I saw it again.
Man I'm tellin you. That Buddy Ryan 46 defense was something to behold. Unfortunately the way football has been taken over by the looney liberals and a cowardly commissioner and owners who gave the guts of a transvestite in a lions den, we'll never see the beauty of a brutal American made defense and performance like that again. Not in our life time. That defense was incredible to watch. It made me wish the season had a 20 game schedule. I just didn't want it to end. The Fridge and all those guys. What a great time to be in Chicago as a Bear fan.
This is when the NFL was watchable. I haven't watched it since Super Bowl 40. That is when I first realized that it's all scripted. The NFL has become the WWF
Players are retiring earlier and earlier and ur going to see alot more of it cuz of the head injuries. Game has to be safer, what's making it close to unwatchable is the new rules that they put in yr after yr. It's too produced and commercialized as well
I remember that TD pass from Payton to the quarterback McMahon. If I'm not mistaken, Walter Payton holds the NFL record for touchdown passes by a running back, or any non-quarterback, with eight.
Watch the Walter Payton TD @ 16:49. This generation of players could learn a lot. Act like you've been there before, and you will get there again. Like Walter Payton! He didn't have to act like a punk after he scored.
You do realize one year before the 1985 season the NFL enforced a rule to crack down on celebrations right? In fact Walter Payton and his team mates DID have a celebration. Don't act like these players of the past were high and mighty, they were just the same as today just not as safe. The Fun Bunch, Billy White Shoes Johnson, The Electric Slide by Earnest Givins are just a few. Let the players have fun man.
Walter knew how good he was... No prancing around like an idiot like they do now ..act like you been there before... He just brought it. He let his stats and work on the field detail his skills and ability. Oops he did it again. Miss these days.
‘91 redskins were the best team I ever saw. 85 bears had a good offense not a great one. I guess they didn’t need one with that great D. The ‘91 redskins had it all - a flawless machine.
@@davidlopez-rl4sh As a lifelong redskins fan I sure hope you aren’t continuing to support that disgraceful profanation called the Washington football team. Snyder destroyed our beloved Redskins. The BLM ......uh....I mean NFL is a disaster in general.
@@MaximusWolfe no I do not like the Redskins anymore stopped watching Redskins when they tore down RFK that was just terrible and not to mention that they don't call them the Redskins like they should it's literally heart breaking
Raiders won 2 Super Bowls in the 80's ( including one of them, a kick ass game over the Redskins). I would consider them to be the 2nd best team of the decade.
This game shows you why football is so weird. The Redskins dominated the game in many statistics. For example they had 100 yards rushing than the Besrs. I think think they had them in time of possession. Especially in the first half. But they were stopped 3 or 4 times on 4th down. Turnovers and a spanked punt. Also some fun facts. Seven different Bears scored in thi game. Counting Kevin Butler. Also the only rushing touchdown for the Bears was by Dennis Gentry. He had 2 carries for-1 yard. Crazy.
45 points yet did Payton even get 50 yards rushing? Total yards rushing catching passing? 6 yds - 41yds - 13yds - Passer Rating 158.3 however and add key Pass Rush blocks to that
@@richardgreen9393 I am a Big Bears fan. He was sooooo injury prone, egotistical, and lazy. Even HAMPTON criticized him for avoiding practice while thinking he could play in the game. He was awful in the playoffs in 87 & 88. Not to mention in 1985 he had a great run game and greatest RB ever
As a Bears' fan, one of the many things I have to say about the Redskins is the way that the Redskins' offense didn't give up on trying to catch Mike Richardson on that interception at the very end of the video. Given how fast Richardson was going down the sideline and that there was only one guy that possibly could catch him (Theisman), it would have been very easy for them to just not bother going after him, especially when trailing 38-10 at that point. But they didn't. They still gave it their all and didn't give up. It's reminiscent of Don Beebe in Super Bowl XXVII. This just entered my head, but I wonder if that attitude is a reason why the Redskins had the Bears' number in 1986 and 1987. I'm not saying the Bears didn't work hard and play hard, but it always seemed to me that the success of 1985 got to their heads. Look at Refrigerator Perry, for one example. He was NOT the same player in 1986 or 1987 that he was in 1985. Contrast that with Washington. Joe Gibbs was an outstanding coach and I will wager he did what he could to not allow that attitude to creep into his players' minds. Just thinking out loud; I could be wrong.
Lonnie - excellent post. I agree with your assessment (and I'm a Bears fan). IN many ways this game was a precursor to the the '86 playoff game some 16 months later in which the Redskins posted big plays (just like they did in this game), but didn't make the mistakes they did in this game. Those adjustments were the sign of Gibbs' genius as a coach. Also, the Redskins had some great players on the mid-80s teams: the Hoggs, Monk, Clark, Didier, Coleman, Mann, Manley, etc...and they had the professionalism to never give up, which is why they ran down Richardson and why they came into Chicago twice in consecutive Januarys to beat a favored Bears team.
Here's the deal, Mac was a football player playing QB, he was a coordinator in cleats, and was he cocky? yes, but he backed it up and if not for injuries in the rough and rumble 80's the best decade of the post '70 merger (2010's being the weakest), he would have been a 1st ballot HOF QB
Other than 1988, this was the last time the Bears would dominate the Redskins. The Redskins would wise up and roll out and have quick passes to defeat the Bears blitzes. It showed in the 86 and 87 divisional games.
thats false! the ONLY reason why the redskins beat the 14-2 defending super bowl champ bears in 1986 was because the Charles Martin cheat shot on Jim McMahon! th-cam.com/video/fr7UcrLLybo/w-d-xo.html watch the hit its one of if not the biggest cheap shot in nfl history and ruined McMahon's career, he was never the same. that hit knocked McMahon out of football for a year and torn his shoulder up. the bears in the playoffs used rookie doug flutie in 1986 and of course lost because of it.
@@mmeatheaddd Not really. Jim McMahon was not that much of a difference maker. Joe Gibbs was just ten times the coach Ditka was. Their success in 85 went to their heads. They got stomped at home in the playoffs 3 straight years...twice by Washington in 86 and 87 and by San Francisco 28-3 in the 88 NFC Championship. What did Jim McMahon playing have to do with Darrell Green's punt return TD in 86? Not a thing
@@jeremythompson9122 i really dont think you know much about football your just going with what others say.Jim McMahon was a very good qb no he was never dan marino but McMahon was good that it until he career was ruined by the Charles Martin cheat shot. im guessing you dont know what that is correct?well it was a cheap shot that tore McMahon's shoulder to shreds knocking him out of football for a year and he was never the same after that. th-cam.com/video/wilIF30NLRU/w-d-xo.html 1984 bears beat the redskins. 1985 bears beat the redskins. 1986 redskins beat the bears with the bears having rookie qb Doug Flutie in the game because McMahon wa s out for the year. 1987 redskins beat the bears. 1988 bears beat the redskins! so from 1984 to 1988 the bears went 3-2 vs the redskins!show me where the redskins "owned" the bears? you call the bears going 3-2 vs the redskins getting owned?LMFAO!
If you had only looked at the box score, you would think that the Redskins won this game. They outgained Chicago 376-250 and outrushed them 192-91, the most rushing yards the '85 Bears gave up in a game. Turnovers and special teams touchdowns are what hurt the Redskins in this game.
The thing that jumps out is after Willie dolts kick return touchdown you see number 51 on the field congratulating him. Only the mccaskey's did the arrogant and foolish enough you have Dick Butkus number 51 still available on the field pathetic ownership. It's a shame if it wasn't for a marriage the Halas family would have ran this team so much better because they actually would have cared
Redskins came back to Soldier Field a year later in the '86 Playoffs and knocked out the Bears.. then to prove it wasn't a fluke, did it AGAIN in the '87 Playoffs sending Walter Payton to Retirementland..!!!😂😂😂
Singletary was the most overrated player ever hidden by the top tier talent surrounding him. He was slow , undersized , not much athletic ability , nobody feared the little man who hit like a chick , he was the king of mop up tackles giving 100% after the play was stopped . He was lucky to play with the the best of the best . A true coat tail player . The infinite wisdom of ditka and company thought it better to trade Wilber Marshall than little mikeee . The number one player feared on the bears was in fact Wilber Marshall , he was big , strong , fast , smart , and he hit like a Mack truck ........little Mike was a joke who " looked " like he could hit , in reality he was just a player who nobody would have ever heard of if not for being gifted to be surrounded by the best .
all good That’s ridiculous. Wilber was a great player, but the man had no where near the schematic intelligence that Singletary had. The guy was the field general of that entire defense and knew where everyone’s gap assignments were and should be if they were not in their alignments for a formation and relayed it according to the team they were playing and their tendencies. Without that instinct and communication. The rest of the defense has no direction. That’s why Buddy chose Mike. To say he was only a clean up guy is stupid. He was a great gap shooting backer that was quick and had great technique despite his size lacking. The only thing I’ll say is that his coverage capabilities were not the best. Wilber was not much larger than Singletary either, so I’m not sure where that’s coming from.
What a year for da Bears ! So fun to watch at that time and a pleasure to watch again. Thanks for the post
I know right
Watching that cocky Redskins team get pounded into bacon bits was very satisfying.
Buddy Ryan Bears total commitment defense.. they weren't flashy or fancy ...they just got it done. They played hard and for each other... Best defense ever.
Growing up, after this game anytime a punt was shanked when we would play pick-up games of football it was called "a theisman punt." I just had to LOL when I saw it again.
Fencik was a sure tackler
Willie Gault's runback literally opened up the scoring floodgates for the Bears.
And until watching that return, I had forgotten how fast Gault was. Wow that was a game changer.
@@jackkitchen737 He would have won a Gold Medal in the 1980 Olympics, politics stopped the US from participating.
Football was great back then
Jim McMahon should be in the Hall of Fame! If Joe Namath can make it on 1 Superbowl, so ahould Jim. He did more for the game than Namath accomplished.
Willie Gualt ran back that kick and the Bears went on a 45-0 run. Wow
9:38 McMahon's favorite play of that year.
Man I'm tellin you. That Buddy Ryan 46 defense was something to behold. Unfortunately the way football has been taken over by the looney liberals and a cowardly commissioner and owners who gave the guts of a transvestite in a lions den, we'll never see the beauty of a brutal American made defense and performance like that again. Not in our life time. That defense was incredible to watch. It made me wish the season had a 20 game schedule. I just didn't want it to end. The Fridge and all those guys. What a great time to be in Chicago as a Bear fan.
This is when the NFL was watchable. I haven't watched it since Super Bowl 40. That is when I first realized that it's all scripted. The NFL has become the WWF
Players are retiring earlier and earlier and ur going to see alot more of it cuz of the head injuries. Game has to be safer, what's making it close to unwatchable is the new rules that they put in yr after yr. It's too produced and commercialized as well
Since when is anybody in football "liberal"? What idiocy.
well said robbi
I remember that TD pass from Payton to the quarterback McMahon. If I'm not mistaken, Walter Payton holds the NFL record for touchdown passes by a running back, or any non-quarterback, with eight.
Him or ladainian tomlinson
10 td's i believe
Like Marcus Allen, Payton was the ultimate all-purpose back, because he could it all -- and do it extremely well.
As bad as the Bears have been drafting quarterbacks, I'm surprised Payton doesn't have the Bears record for td passes. 😉
@@kevhead1525 😂
Watch the Walter Payton TD @ 16:49. This generation of players could learn a lot. Act like you've been there before, and you will get there again. Like Walter Payton!
He didn't have to act like a punk after he scored.
You do realize one year before the 1985 season the NFL enforced a rule to crack down on celebrations right? In fact Walter Payton and his team mates DID have a celebration. Don't act like these players of the past were high and mighty, they were just the same as today just not as safe. The Fun Bunch, Billy White Shoes Johnson, The Electric Slide by Earnest Givins are just a few. Let the players have fun man.
@@hits.productions No, today they make absolute fools of themselves. No class at all.
Walter knew how good he was... No prancing around like an idiot like they do now ..act like you been there before... He just brought it. He let his stats and work on the field detail his skills and ability. Oops he did it again. Miss these days.
@@hits.productions know what the most "fun" is for a professional athlete? WINNING. Acting like an azz hole is for losers. An brainless fans.
My 7th birthday on a Sunday and the same night , the tv series, Mc Guyver premieres on ABC. (RANDOM HISTORY).
Bears 85 best team I ever saw.
redskins fan 45 years old i agree
‘91 redskins were the best team I ever saw. 85 bears had a good offense not a great one. I guess they didn’t need one with that great D. The ‘91 redskins had it all - a flawless machine.
@@davidlopez-rl4sh
As a lifelong redskins fan I sure hope you aren’t continuing to support that disgraceful profanation called the Washington football team. Snyder destroyed our beloved Redskins. The BLM ......uh....I mean NFL is a disaster in general.
@@MaximusWolfe no I do not like the Redskins anymore stopped watching Redskins when they tore down RFK that was just terrible and not to mention that they don't call them the Redskins like they should it's literally heart breaking
Any of the 2010 patriots teams or the 07 patriots would destroy the 85 bears. Gronk would eat on those linebackers
Man Gault was FAST !!
Those 80s Redskins were probably the second best team of that decade behind the 49ers. The Bears were that good in 1985.
Bears were dirty....wilbur Marshall dirtiest player in nfl history.... Those hits with players on the ground
I guess you don't remember 1984 in RFK the Bears beating up literally physically beating up the Redskins it wasn't just 85
Raiders won 2 Super Bowls in the 80's ( including one of them, a kick ass game over the Redskins). I would consider them to be the 2nd best team of the decade.
@@2001gogamecocks lol....bitter, much!
I want to make a special mention of how at the most needed times, Willie Gault #83 provided sparks and kept us in games in '85
Beating the Redskins early in the year was huge
This game shows you why football is so weird. The Redskins dominated the game in many statistics. For example they had 100 yards rushing than the Besrs. I think think they had them in time of possession. Especially in the first half.
But they were stopped 3 or 4 times on 4th down. Turnovers and a spanked punt.
Also some fun facts. Seven different Bears scored in thi game. Counting Kevin Butler. Also the only rushing touchdown for the Bears was by Dennis Gentry. He had 2 carries for-1 yard. Crazy.
Joe Theismann's last game ever in Chicago as he would, unfortunately, get a devastating injury on MNF against the Giants two months later.
45 points yet did Payton even get 50 yards rushing? Total yards rushing catching passing?
6 yds - 41yds - 13yds - Passer Rating 158.3 however and add key Pass Rush blocks to that
Extinct Honey Bears @ 6:43 !!
With Cheryl Burton, now a local newscaster.
‘85 were good and I remember how well the Bucs played’em twice that year which was just weird
8:40 - Gary Clark scared to death, alligator arms - LOL
rare case for him
AWESOME play @ 9:41
The Joe Thiesman -2 yard punt game
A seven-year-old could have punted the ball farther. Theismann simply took his eye off the ball -- because he was *intimidated.*
Walter Payton to Jim McMahon for touchdown, was awesome to see
Honey Bears
That’s why they didn’t repeat.
Jim McMahon the greatest Bears quarter back ever
Overrated
Andrew Hoyle you must not be a Bears fan or you are just blind
@@richardgreen9393 I am a Big Bears fan. He was sooooo injury prone, egotistical, and lazy. Even HAMPTON criticized him for avoiding practice while thinking he could play in the game. He was awful in the playoffs in 87 & 88. Not to mention in 1985 he had a great run game and greatest RB ever
Andrew Hoyle well then you tell me who was a better Bears quarter back
@@richardgreen9393 sid luckman.
There's no shame in losing, even losing big, to the years Super Bowl champs!!!
I kept waiting for the Bears to dominate while watching the Redskins dominate for the 1st 4.5 minutes.
As a Bears' fan, one of the many things I have to say about the Redskins is the way that the Redskins' offense didn't give up on trying to catch Mike Richardson on that interception at the very end of the video. Given how fast Richardson was going down the sideline and that there was only one guy that possibly could catch him (Theisman), it would have been very easy for them to just not bother going after him, especially when trailing 38-10 at that point. But they didn't. They still gave it their all and didn't give up. It's reminiscent of Don Beebe in Super Bowl XXVII.
This just entered my head, but I wonder if that attitude is a reason why the Redskins had the Bears' number in 1986 and 1987. I'm not saying the Bears didn't work hard and play hard, but it always seemed to me that the success of 1985 got to their heads. Look at Refrigerator Perry, for one example. He was NOT the same player in 1986 or 1987 that he was in 1985. Contrast that with Washington. Joe Gibbs was an outstanding coach and I will wager he did what he could to not allow that attitude to creep into his players' minds.
Just thinking out loud; I could be wrong.
Lonnie - excellent post. I agree with your assessment (and I'm a Bears fan). IN many ways this game was a precursor to the the '86 playoff game some 16 months later in which the Redskins posted big plays (just like they did in this game), but didn't make the mistakes they did in this game. Those adjustments were the sign of Gibbs' genius as a coach. Also, the Redskins had some great players on the mid-80s teams: the Hoggs, Monk, Clark, Didier, Coleman, Mann, Manley, etc...and they had the professionalism to never give up, which is why they ran down Richardson and why they came into Chicago twice in consecutive Januarys to beat a favored Bears team.
Th reason the Bears did not repeat was that Ditka got rid of Buddy Ryan. Period.
@@mikepetitti The principal reason was that Buddy Ryan was gone. It's that simple.
Who was faster: Devin Hester or Willie Gault?
6:08 Theisman punt! lol
BOOM BEAR ATTACK!
Here's the deal, Mac was a football player playing QB, he was a coordinator in cleats, and was he cocky? yes, but he backed it up and if not for injuries in the rough and rumble 80's the best decade of the post '70 merger (2010's being the weakest), he would have been a 1st ballot HOF QB
If your aunt had calls, she would be our uncle.
Riggins looked pretty good considering his age in this game.
He was 36.
🐻 stopped on 3 4& 1 !!! Geez
Payton to McMahon Nicholas Collora TH-cam these are olympic events
La linea di attacco dove.?
Juxtapose Mr Payton gave McMahon stadium
Other than 1988, this was the last time the Bears would dominate the Redskins. The Redskins would wise up and roll out and have quick passes to defeat the Bears blitzes. It showed in the 86 and 87 divisional games.
thats false! the ONLY reason why the redskins beat the 14-2 defending super bowl champ bears in 1986 was because the Charles Martin cheat shot on Jim McMahon! th-cam.com/video/fr7UcrLLybo/w-d-xo.html watch the hit its one of if not the biggest cheap shot in nfl history and ruined McMahon's career, he was never the same. that hit knocked McMahon out of football for a year and torn his shoulder up. the bears in the playoffs used rookie doug flutie in 1986 and of course lost because of it.
@@mmeatheaddd Not really. Jim McMahon was not that much of a difference maker. Joe Gibbs was just ten times the coach Ditka was. Their success in 85 went to their heads. They got stomped at home in the playoffs 3 straight years...twice by Washington in 86 and 87 and by San Francisco 28-3 in the 88 NFC Championship. What did Jim McMahon playing have to do with Darrell Green's punt return TD in 86? Not a thing
@@jeremythompson9122 i really dont think you know much about football your just going with what others say.Jim McMahon was a very good qb no he was never dan marino but McMahon was good that it until he career was ruined by the Charles Martin cheat shot. im guessing you dont know what that is correct?well it was a cheap shot that tore McMahon's shoulder to shreds knocking him out of football for a year and he was never the same after that. th-cam.com/video/wilIF30NLRU/w-d-xo.html 1984 bears beat the redskins. 1985 bears beat the redskins. 1986 redskins beat the bears with the bears having rookie qb Doug Flutie in the game because McMahon wa s out for the year. 1987 redskins beat the bears. 1988 bears beat the redskins! so from 1984 to 1988 the bears went 3-2 vs the redskins!show me where the redskins "owned" the bears? you call the bears going 3-2 vs the redskins getting owned?LMFAO!
@@mmeatheaddd BOTTOM LINE: If Martin didn't cheap shot McMahon, the Bears would have probably won another superbowl.
@@citygirl5705 agree and i would bet on a 3rd superbowl as well in 1984.
Grapefruit
If you had only looked at the box score, you would think that the Redskins won this game. They outgained Chicago 376-250 and outrushed them 192-91, the most rushing yards the '85 Bears gave up in a game. Turnovers and special teams touchdowns are what hurt the Redskins in this game.
Box scores also give the SCORE. Anyone looking at it would know the Redskins LOST, genius.
The thing that jumps out is after Willie dolts kick return touchdown you see number 51 on the field congratulating him. Only the mccaskey's did the arrogant and foolish enough you have Dick Butkus number 51 still available on the field pathetic ownership. It's a shame if it wasn't for a marriage the Halas family would have ran this team so much better because they actually would have cared
4:30
Redskins came back to Soldier Field a year later in the '86 Playoffs and knocked out the Bears.. then to prove it wasn't a fluke, did it AGAIN in the '87 Playoffs sending Walter Payton to Retirementland..!!!😂😂😂
And the Bears knocked the Redskins out of the playoffs in 1977, 1978, 1979, and beat them in Washington in the playoffs in 1984. So ha ha 😂 🤣 😆 😄
A high-school football team could have beaten Washington that day.
Singletary was the most overrated player ever hidden by the top tier talent surrounding him.
He was slow , undersized , not much athletic ability , nobody feared the little man who hit like a chick , he was the king of mop up tackles giving 100% after the play was stopped .
He was lucky to play with the the best of the best .
A true coat tail player .
The infinite wisdom of ditka and company thought it better to trade Wilber Marshall than little mikeee .
The number one player feared on the bears was in fact Wilber Marshall , he was big , strong , fast , smart , and he hit like a Mack truck ........little Mike was a joke who " looked " like he could hit , in reality he was just a player who nobody would have ever heard of if not for being gifted to be surrounded by the best .
all good That’s ridiculous. Wilber was a great player, but the man had no where near the schematic intelligence that Singletary had. The guy was the field general of that entire defense and knew where everyone’s gap assignments were and should be if they were not in their alignments for a formation and relayed it according to the team they were playing and their tendencies. Without that instinct and communication. The rest of the defense has no direction. That’s why Buddy chose Mike. To say he was only a clean up guy is stupid. He was a great gap shooting backer that was quick and had great technique despite his size lacking. The only thing I’ll say is that his coverage capabilities were not the best. Wilber was not much larger than Singletary either, so I’m not sure where that’s coming from.
Guess you didn't watch too many Bears games back then
Buddy Ryan always said the best player on that '85 Defense was Wilber Marshall..