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What a Fine Mess Lovie Smith and His Staff Have Made of the Chicago Bears
CHICAGO— Once the thought of Bears coach Lovie Smith losing his job seemed ridiculous. After 13 games, though, and Sunday’s 21-14 defeat by the Green Bay Packers, nothing seems out of the realm of possibility: from Smith and his staff getting the
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What a Fine Mess Lovie Smith and His Staff Have Made of the Chicago Bears
CHICAGO — Once the thought of Bears coach Lovie Smith losing his job seemed ridiculous. After 13 games, though, and Sunday’s 21-14 defeat by the Green Bay Packers, nothing seems out of the realm of possibility: from Smith and his staff ge
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Ugly Bears Victory Does Little Beyond End Losing Streak
CHICAGO -- To find truth in the Chicago Bears' locker room, one must go to defensive players, and particularly, the defensive ends. Alex Brown has the right team-oriented attitude, but usually will not look through the same rose-colored or Lovie-tint
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Injured Chicago Bear Brian Urlacher Should Focus on Rehab, Not Analysis
It’s been quite a while since linebacker Brian Urlacher played in an NFL game, and he’s acting like he’s been away forever. Urlacher’s comments in a story written by Yahoo Sports writer Michael Silver on Monday sounded li
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Minnesota Vikings’ Dominance Hands Chicago Bears a Large Dose of Reality
MINNEAPOLIS -- The best thing you could say about the Bears after Sunday’s 36-10 loss to the Minnesota Vikings was coach Lovie Smith didn’t fill the air with ridiculous ideas about winning out and going 9-7 like Arizona did last ye
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Chicago Bears Picked the Worst Time To Hibernate
The Chicago Bears not only are bad, they've also picked a bad time to be bad. Obviously, it's never good to trade away your first round draft pick for a quarterback who isn't producing—whether it's his fault or the lack of an offensive line. It
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Chicago Bears Unwilling To Look at New Talent With Season Lost
When a football team is 4-6 and looking forward to a January of watching the playoffs on television, playing for the future only makes sense. The Chicago Bears will never do this under coach Lovie Smith. They never have, and never will. Already, we&r
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Dancing Bear Matt Forte Only One of Team’s Numerous Problems
LAKE FOREST, IL—It took very little time for the idea to come across coach Lovie Smith's lips this week in practice following last week's debacle at San Francisco. "We have five losses. Five losses don't keep you out of anything. Our players re
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Chicago Bears Stuck in Long, Vicious Downward Spiral
Quarterback Jay Cutler hadn't even thrown the third of five interceptions Thursday night in one of the worst Bears offensive displays since the one-year era of former offensive coordinator Terry Shea. Yet the analysts, and experts with NFL Network, a
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Dodge Ball: Chicago Bears, Lovie Smith Like Skipping the Tough Questions
One of the inexorable underlying qualities about coach Lovie Smith’s Chicago Bears has been a complete insistence that outsiders really do not know their game well enough to accurately point out their failings. Smith treats criticism of the team by
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