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Chicago Bears: Rookie, Free-Agent Midseason Progress Report
Martellus Bennett is like Superman—if there were an abundance of kryptonite on earth. Jermon Bushrod is like a peanut butter and jelly sandwich—when you haven’t eaten for three days. Matt Slauson is like a nice pair of slacks. Ridic
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1 Insanely Simple Move That Immediately Makes the Chicago Bears a Better Team
The Chicago Bears could be better. Right, right, that’s obvious. Like Geico’s slogan, everyone already knows that. So let me say it this way: They could be better today, like, at this very instant, like, by the time you finish reading thi
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5 Ways the Chicago Bears Can Run the Ball Against the Green Bay Packers
The Jenga tower is wobbling, and in a year where everything is different for the Chicago Bears, it’s only fitting that they now turn to Matt Forte, the one constant through it all, to keep the tower from crashing. That seems to be popular narra
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Chicago Bears Buy or Sell: Week 8 Edition
Though it’s a bye week for the 4-3 Chicago Bears, there’s plenty to talk about following a week that saw the team’s offensive and defensive leaders fall to injuries. Can backup quarterback Josh McCown keep the offense moving at a st
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Have Defensive Deficiencies Ruined the Chicago Bears’ Season?
Before Chicago’s Week 7 matchup with the Washington Redskins, I wanted to write about how the Bears defense isn’t that bad. More specifically, I wanted to write that, while it’s bad compared to what Bears fans are used to, it’
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Sorting out the NFC: Contenders and Pretenders
The New Orleans Saints and Seattle Seahawks are the early leaders in the race to make the playoffs in the NFC. San Francisco doesn’t look far behind. But what about some of the other NFC teams sitting with three or four wins? Come January, whic
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Buy or Sell: Chicago Bears Edition
Six games in, the Chicago Bears are 4-2, a half game atop the NFC North, but are they headed for the playoffs? Is Julius Peppers still elite? Is Marc Trestman the answer? How good can Alshon Jeffery be? The answers to these questions, and more, below
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When Stats Lie: How the Chicago Bears Gained 434 Yards on a Subpar Offensive Day
Check the box score of the Week 5 Chicago Bears-New Orleans Saints matchup and you might think the Bears outplayed the Saints. You might think it was one of those games where circumstances lucked the lesser team to victory. The Bears racked up 434 to
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Alshon Jeffery Will Eclipse 1,000 Receiving Yards for the Chicago Bears
Chicago Bears quarterback Jay Cutler had just completed two straight passes along the left sideline to second-year wideout Alshon Jeffery. It was the first drive of the game against the Pittsburgh Steelers in Week 3, and it seemed clear that the
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Don’t Blame Jay: 2 Reasons to Stop Drinking the Jay Cutler Haterade
In the wake of Chicago’s 40-32 Week 4 loss to the Detroit Lions, many Chicago Bears fans are hopping on a familiar bandwagon, the one where you can answer the question What is the cause of all of life’s problems? in just two words: Jay Cu
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