Jonathan Scott

Jay Cutler said the new offense will take three years to learn, but he only gets two max if he underperforms, right? -- @DreddRunner, from Twitter I think if Cutler underperforms, I think he gets one year, no more.  And really that’s all Marc...

The Sports Xchange NFL Team Report - Chicago Bears - INSIDE SLANT Learning a new offense is old hat for quarterback Jay Cutler, who's in the process of assimilating his fourth different scheme in his five years with the Bears. Cutler knows it takes...

Terrell Suggs didn't wear an inflammatory T-shirt, as he is known to do before the Ravens' showdowns with the Pittsburgh Steelers. But Suggs stoked the rivalry just fine with his mouth: an eight-minute interview today with reporters added plenty of...

Smash-mouth football, once an offensive trademark of the NFL’s charter franchise that produced the great Walter Payton, died before its time last week in Chicago after a recent bout with negligence. It was ageless. On fourth-and-1 against the...

Gabe Carimi would have been the big story at Bears minicamp Tuesday if he had still been a Bear. Instead, he was the big story at Bucs minicamp. It would be easy to explain away Gabe Carimi's short and disappointing Bears career by saying he was not...

The big-picture stuff going on in Lake Forest is juicier than it has been in years. To my delight, that's not going to change for many weeks. Who coaches the Bears in 2013 is a much more meaningful, more layered conversation than if Lovie Smith's...

The Sports Xchange NFL Team Report - Chicago Bears - INSIDE SLANT Brandon Marshall's first season with the Bears was the most productive by a wide receiver in franchise history, but he thinks he can do better. At Tuesday's OTA, Marshall practiced for...

The difference in the Bears' strength program at this point is noise. There is more of it. That's the noise that comes from big plates crashing to the ground after an explosive lift. And the guttural sounds men make when they try to move heavy...

GREEN BAY — It's one thing to block the Colts, without Dwight Freeney and with the comforts of playing at home. It's quite another to block the Packers, with Clay Matthews and the thunder that some 70,000 lathered-up Cheesies can create. The...

Just in time for next week's minicamp, Bears wide receiver Brandon Marshall has been cleared to return from arthroscopic hip surgery. Marshall declared himself 100 percent but the team eased him back into action during Tuesday's organized team...

If Gabe Carimi's goal was to find a new team by staying away from the Bears' voluntary offseason program, consider it mission accomplished. Less than 48 hours before the start of the team's mandatory minicamp, Carimi got a fresh start and the team rid...

The Sports Xchange NFL Team Report - Chicago Bears - INSIDE SLANT Linebacker Jonathan Bostic is a prime example of the value of prospects being in the eye of the beholder. While NFL scouts were concerned about his sideline-to-sideline speed, Chicago...