Jeffery Simmons Needed About 72 Hours to Become Seattle’s Biggest Problem ...Middle East

Seventy-two hours after his first practice as a Bear, Jeffery Simmons sprinted onto the field at Lumen Field for the opening snap Monday night, orange long sleeves and all. The Seahawks spent the rest of the evening trying to figure out what to do with him, and they never really found an answer.

Simmons finished his Chicago debut with a sack, six tackles, two tackles for loss, and a pass breakup. That’s a strong night for anybody. For a guy wearing Titans colors a week ago and having roughly three days to learn a new defense, it borders on ridiculous.

And the stat line might be the least impressive part.

How much Simmons would play was the big question heading into Monday. When Ryan Poles shipped two first-round picks to Tennessee last Thursday, a full workload right away seemed unlikely. A handful of practices isn’t much time to absorb a playbook, and a lighter rotation in his first game would have made plenty of sense.

Dennis Allen saw it differently. Simmons played 19 of the defense’s 24 snaps in the first half, and he was out there for 48 of the first 56 defensive snaps. The Bears had their new star available, and they weren’t going to waste him on the bench.

Of the few snaps he did sit out, one stood out: Jaxon Smith-Njigba’s touchdown late in the second quarter, with Chicago in a dime package. It’s a small sample, but it’s a fun one.

When he was on the field, Seattle felt it. Simmons didn’t need help getting into the backfield. He got there on his own more than once, and his first sack as a Bear came with a little extra, courtesy of a post-play face-mask penalty on Grady Jarrett. Allen probably won’t love that part of the film session.

The bigger impact came from how much attention Seattle had to give him. The Seahawks often doubled him, and his teammates made them pay. Devin Bush’s sack came on one of those reps. Montez Sweat, lined up next to his old Mississippi State teammate, played one of his best games after returning from suspension.

Here’s Sweat’s sack:

And Bush’s sack:

That’s the entire idea behind the trade. The Bears didn’t give up two firsts just for Simmons’ own sack numbers. They did it so everyone else on the line would get easier looks, and in his first game he delivered both.

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Here’s a 3rd-and-8 for the Seahawks in the second quarter where Simmons pushes his man into the pocket, almost so forcefully that he’s just blowing by the quarterback. However, it still forces Darnold to move up, and the time it takes makes it hard for other offensive linemen to maintain their blocks, allowing Montez Sweat to get pressure from the right side, leading to an incompletion and a punt for the Seahawks.

Simmons said last week when he met reporters at Halas Hall that if offensive linemen were going to hand on him all day, then his old college teammate, Sweat, would have to pick up the space that creates. We saw that here, and we saw that on multiple other plays last night.

Here’s another play: Simmons and Sweat end up taking 3/5 of the Seattle offensive line on, leaving Austin Booker to flush Darnold from the pocket and make him uncomfortable enough to sail a throw to Jaxon Smith-Njigba.

Again:

It was the recurring theme all night: Simmons, easily identifiable in the long orange sleeves that he wears so his daughter can easily spot him while she’s at home watching him on television, was the most noticeable player on the field when Seattle had the ball, whether or not he was near that ball.

Even if you didn’t watch the game, or the tape, the proof of Simmons’ impact last night was in the numbers. When he was on the field, Seattle averaged 3.0 yards per play, versus 13.3 yards per play when he was on the sideline. Bears head coach Ben Johnson said after the game that Simmons’ presence was felt:

“He’s fit right in. … You can feel his presence out there, whether it’s during the play or even after. You can feel him talking smack, which I think elevates everyone. … To come in there and have a share of the lead in tackles and a sack in his first game, his impact was profound,” Johnson said to reporters at Lumen Field.

The Bears are now 3-0 in primetime this season, and the next one is coming soon, with Tampa Bay visiting Soldier Field on Sunday night. This time Simmons will have a full week of practice behind him. The Buccaneers’ interior line probably isn’t excited about that.

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