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Chicago Bears’ Opportunistic Defense Making Up for Injuries, Shortcomings
The product hasn't always been aesthetically pleasing, but the opportunistic nature of the Chicago Bears defense has been good enough to help overcome a growing number of injuries and secure road wins against the San Francisco 49ers and New York Jets
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Charles Tillman Injury Puts Spotlight on Kyle Fuller to Save Bears Secondary
A season ago, the loss of cornerback Charles Tillman to a torn right triceps played a major role in the Chicago Bears' historic slide on defense. With first-round rookie Kyle Fuller emerging as a potential star, another season-ending injury to
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Chicago Bears May Have Found Defensive Spark to Contend with NFC Heavyweights
The Chicago Bears pulled off one of the more improbable wins of the young 2014 season, coming back from 17 points down in the first half to beat the San Francisco 49ers on the road for the first time since 1985. Surprisingly, it was Chicago's defense
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Same-Old Jay Cutler Won’t Cut It for the 2014 Chicago Bears
Rewind to the night of Sept. 14, 2012. Moments after helping the Green Bay Packers trounce the Chicago Bears during a prime-time contest at Lambeau Field, veteran cornerback Charles Woodson delivered an honest commentary of Bears quarterback Ja
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Familiar Horrors Haunt Cutler, Bears in Discouraging Season-Opening Loss
The horrors that haunted the Chicago Bears' season-opening loss to the Buffalo Bills should feel all too familiar in the Windy City. Career gunslinger Jay Cutler set up a Bills touchdown with a first-half interception and killed a fourth-q
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Is it Already Time to Push the Panic Button on the Bears Defense?
Panic over a preseason game should not exist inside the Chicago Bears' locker room. Games played in August count for nothing, and typically mean little once the real games begin. Still, the humble pie served up by the Seattle Seahawks during th
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Breaking Down a Sizzling Start to the Preseason for Bears QB Jay Cutler
While caution must be exercised in extracting any level of certainty from the preseason, Chicago Bears quarterback Jay Cutler has been as sharp through two exhibition games as anyone in the Bears organization could have hoped. Head coach Marc Trestma
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Early Struggles vs. Jaguars Show Bears Defense Still Has Work to Do
A week after harassing Nick Foles and the Philadelphia Eagles offense in the preseason opener, the rebuilt Chicago Bears defense showed Thursday night against the Jacksonville Jaguars that there is still plenty of work to be done for the overhauled u
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Bears’ New-Look Defensive Line Can Help Mask Other Deficiencies
The Chicago Bears' preseason opener showed a brief glimpse of how the team's new defensive line can help mask other issues on the defense, namely at linebacker and safety. While the Bears have very little figured out at either position, the defensive
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Adrian Wilson a Long Shot to Make an Impact for the Chicago Bears
Despite advances in the medical field, recent history does not provide a comparable example of a player near the age of 34-year-old Adrian Wilson—who was signed Monday by the Chicago Bears—returning from a torn Achilles tendon to re-estab
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