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'06 goes out with a flop
Tribune staff reporterThe biggest issue for the Bears going into Sunday night's game against the Green Bay Packers was whether coach Lovie Smith could risk resting any of his starters while maintaining momentum and, in his most optimistic moments, peak going into the NFL...Tags: Football, Brett Favre, Mark Bradley, National Football Conference, Nathan Vasher
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Gould boots Bears into conference title game
Tribune staff reporterFirst quarter Lovie Smith is fond of saying the Bears get off the bus running, and he confirmed it by handing the ball to Thomas Jones on 10 of the first 14 plays from scrimmage. The final time was a 9-yard burst through the left side behind devastating...Tags: Football, Julian Peterson, Bobby Engram, Lance Briggs, Thomas Jones
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Super Bowl bound
Tribune staff reporterFirst quarter The Bears started uneasily, getting their hands on three New Orleans fumbles, recovering only two and netting just three points in the opening quarter. That was an ominous beginning in a sport that typically presents only so many golden...Tags: Football, National Football Conference, Fred Thomas, Thomas Jones, Brad Maynard
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Bears win shootout on Sunday
Tribune reporterMike Brown has been to the playoffs with three different Bears teams and to a Super Bowl with one of them. Two of those three teams had better records than the 2008 Bears after seven games. The 2005 edition, which moved Brown to his famous "We suck"...Tags: Garrett Wolfe, Football, Greg Olsen, National Football Conference, Corey Graham
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Gould's field goal gives Bears win
Tribune staff reporterAs Devin Hester sprinted down the field, Bears fans got to their feet, figuring victory was at hand. Hester didn't catch Kyle Orton's deep pass in overtime Thursday night, but the Saints helped him out. Safety Roman Harper, beaten badly on the play,...Tags: Football, Greg Olsen, National Football Conference, Crime, Law and Justice, Lance Briggs
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David Haugh's Bears mailbag
Kyle Orton . . . gunslinger? Drew Brees used that word to describe his successor at Purdue, where quarterbacks practically are issued a holster and ammo clip with their playbooks. But in the NFL, the Bears have yet to equip Orton with any schematic...Tags: Jamar Williams, Tommie Harris, Chicago Bulls, Purdue University, Lovie Smith
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Defense is cut up
Tribune staff reporterBears defensive backs Ricky Manning Jr. and Adam Archuleta looked at each other dumbfounded, wondering how Cowboys running back Marion Barber III had slid through them for a 10-yard third-quarter touchdown. "I don't know, I think maybe Ricky and I hit...Tags: Greg Olsen, Damon Huard, Tommie Harris, Soldier Field, Tom Brady
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Bears take sound licking
Tribune staff reporterAll week, the Bears vowed to make some noise in the 86th season opener in franchise history. Instead, they couldn't hear because of it. Kyle Orton, the first rookie quarterback to start a Bears opener since Zeke Bratkowski in 1954, had his helmet...Tags: Warrick Holdman, Lemar Marshall, FedEx Corporation, Tommie Harris, Thomas Jones
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Packing a rare KO punch
Tribune staff reporterBefore Bears quarterback Kordell Stewart jogged off Invesco Field on Sunday after the Bears' 19-10 victory over the Broncos, he acknowledged the adulation above him with his patented toothy smile. That's the one Stewart brought to Chicago and hadn't...Tags: Football, Trevor Pryce, Mike Brown (ice hockey), Jake Plummer, Marty Booker
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A nasty crash landing
Tribune staff reporterWith pained looks and pursed lips, they slowly followed the cart down the Metrodome hallway late Sunday afternoon. The cart carried Rex Grossman, sitting on the back with a tightly knotted silk striped tie around his neck and a bulky black brace...Tags: Thomas Jones, Rex Tucker, Lovie Smith, Olin Kreutz, Todd McMillon
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Bears' slim playoff hopes reduced to none
Tribune staff reporterFace down and motionless, Kordell Stewart just lay there at the 5-yard line of a Lambeau Field that delivered the coldest of realities to the Bears during Sunday's 34-21 loss to the Packers. Stewart lay so still for so long that two Bears teammates...Tags: Football, Brett Favre, National Football Conference, Lance Briggs, Ryan Longwell
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How the 2004 Bears were built
A look at how each player on the 2004 roster came to be a Bear. Thirty-three of the 53 players on the active roster (62.2%) were either draftees of the Bears or undrafted free agents signed with the Bears. Seventeen players joined the team via free...Tags: New Orleans Saints, Bryan Johnson, Tommie Harris, Thomas Jones, Rex Tucker
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