Chris Chandler

Q Was Jim Miller even capable of throwing a deep pass at the end of the game? A Miller was relegated to backup duty because of tendinitis in his shoulder and elbow but was forced into action when starter Chris Chandler left the game with a sprained neck....

The debris, including at least one bottle aimed at an official, had barely settled on the field when John Shoop jogged into the dressing room under his own assault from above. "Shoop, you [stink]," his detractors yelled as the Bears' offensive...

The Bears landed with a sickening thud Sunday in their 23-20 overtime loss to the Detroit Lions. It was the sound of them falling below the once lowly Lions in the NFC North with their fourth straight defeat. Early in the game, the Bears turned the...

Chris Chandler didn't take one snap from center Sunday. But the Bears' backup quarterback should be credited with one of the biggest plays of the game. When Atlanta quarterback Michael Vick tossed a 42-yard pass to Willie Jackson with 4 minutes 2 seconds...

The Football Doctor finally wrote the Bears a prescription for a win Sunday: Take two aspirin and call me in the Mornhinweg. With Detroit Lions coach Marty Mornhinweg providing opportunities to get healthy after eight straight losses, the Bears avenged...

The stage is set for Henry Burris' first NFL start as the Bears took another hit at quarterback Sunday. Chris Chandler sustained a concussion in the second quarter, the third time in seven 2002 starts that Chandler has been knocked out of a game....

At one point Sunday, Henry Burris was caught on camera throwing a pass with his eyes closed, an expression of apparent fear in the face of the oncoming rush. But what Burris could not see still hurt him as the Bears quarterback, thrust into his most...

Dez White posted the first two-touchdown game of his three-year career Sunday and did it with a little bit of schoolyard flair. White's 76-yard touchdown pass from Chris Chandler on the game's second play was little more than a "run-and-get-open play,...

The Bears went to Atlanta with a case of attitude, perhaps difficult to understand of a team that hasn't won very often since the mid-1990s. After Sunday's 31-3 mauling of the Falcons, in which they scored those 31 points in the final 32 minutes, they...

D'OH I: Paul Edinger's overtime kickoff went out of bounds, giving the Lions the ball on their 40, where even a rookie quarterback on perhaps the worst team outside of Cincinnati could move an offense into position so one of the best field-goal kickers in...

Q You have covered a lot of Bears games over the last 20 years. Do you remember seeing them look so pitiful? A In terms of a relatively talented team dropping off the radar screen, this Bears team brings to mind the 1989 season, when coach Mike Ditka...

Chris Chandler stayed in the trainer's room so long that Monday became Tuesday and you began to wonder whether he would emerge upright. Even he couldn't really identify all the pain his body had to be in after absorbing seven sacks—five in the first...