Williams said that he and his players "took a good, long hard look" at tape of the Vikings game, chiefly to correct the mistakes the defense made in allowing Minnesota to score three straight TDs to take a 21-3 lead.
"They did make some plays, but I still would like to think it's more about us than it is about them," Williams said. "It's still about owning your gap. It's still about reading your keys. It's still about tackling. It's still about doing those types of things more so than it is about them and, you know what, as a coordinator I have to take some ownership of that too. I have to call a better first half to help the guys out. I do believe it's player and coach, coach and player, so it's both."
Sunday wasn't the first time the defense has stumbled out of the gate; the Bears have allowed 11 TDs in the first half this season and only one in the second half.
"It's my job to get them ready to go early on," Williams said. "It's completely on me. I like to look at the positive parts of it; the second half, that we're playing lights out football. And so we just want to make sure that we can move that second half into the first half, first drive, second drive, second quarter.
"We'll look and see what we did the second half and the energy that we bring, the tackling, the turnovers, all those things. We want those things to show up in the first half."
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