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Chicago Bears: Predicting Top Offensive, Defensive Stat Leaders for 2012 Season
There are lies, damn lies and statistics. In the NFL, stats aren't like other sports. While the addition of advanced metrics in football hasn't quite arrived at the level of sabermetrics in baseball, sites such as Football Outsiders have started chan
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Breaking Down Chicago Bears, NFC North Heading into Training Camp
The Chicago Bears feel good about themselves heading into training camp next month, and with good reason. They have improved a squad that was on a roll before losing Jay Cutler and Matt Forte to injury last season. That being said, the Bears aren't t
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Chicago Bears: 8 Early Winners and Losers of the Bears’ Offseason
New Bears GM Phil Emery has had a solid offseason. Learning from the mistakes of his predecessor, Jerry Angelo, Emery went out and filled in depth at key areas where it had been missing last season. If Jay Cutler or Matt Forte go down again this year
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Chicago Bears: Predicting Two-Deep Depth Chart, Pre-Training Camp
Under Lovie Smith, the Bears have been fairly firm about the previous year's starters and backups being listed on the depth chart hierarchy in the same order. But with new GM Phil Emery in place, there has been more willingness to change the or
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10 Chicago Bears on the Hot Seat in 2012
With high expectations come great opportunity. But when those expectations aren't fulfilled, there can be hell to pay. So it goes for the 10 Bears on this list. It's not as if all of them will be traded, released or not re-signed if they coach or pla
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Missing Pieces the Chicago Bears Could Still Get
The NFL free-agency period has come and (almost) gone—there are still some unsigned players out there—and the draft has been completed. Teams like the Bears have also signed some undrafted free agents. That said, the Bears still have some
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Odds Each of the Chicago Bears’ Undrafted Free Agents Make the 53-Man Roster
Shortly after the 2012 NFL Draft, the Bears signed 11 undrafted free agents. Some of these players will get a look but either injuries or poor performance will make them go away. Meanwhile, there could be a couple that make the practice squad. But th
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Chicago Bears: 8 Players Whose Stock Is on the Rise in OTAs
With the Bulls and Blackhawks out of their respective playoffs, and neither baseball team in first place—the Cubs are awful, though the Sox are playing well—there is more attention than usual on the Bears. The Organized Team Activities, o
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Chicago Bears: 7 Things We’ve Learned This Offseason
Bears fans understood that if Chicago had even a halfway decent backup to Jay Cutler last season, the team would have made the playoffs. So, with good health and solid backups in place, optimism reigns at Halas Hall this spring. And with good re
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The Chicago Bears’ 10 Best & Worst Moves of the 2012 Offseason
The Bears have quietly (and not so quietly) had a very good offseason. Many of the moves that new GM Phil Emery made were under-the-radar additions, except for Brandon Marshall, who was easily the best addition of the offseason for Chicago. GM Jerry
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