Mike Mularkey

Instead of watching the Packers in a wild-card playoff game Saturday night, you could have been watching the Bears. All the Bears needed to still be playing was for the Packers to beat the Vikings on Sunday when they were three-point favorites. How...

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Toting the football he caught Sunday for a 24-yard touchdown, Brandon Marshall headed toward the first row of seats behind the Bears bench with more purpose than any route he ran all game. Marshall found his father, Freddie,...

1. Falcons (2 last week): Matt Ryan is stringing together good performance after good performance. And the Falcons don't lose when Ryan is on. 2. Bears (3): Their confidence is sky-high, and it gets real now for the Bears with the Texans and 49ers up...

1. Texans (3 last week): They proved they are for real by winning against a tough Bears team in bad conditions Sunday. 2. Falcons (1): Did anyone really think they were the '72 Dolphins? They are allowed one mulligan. 3. Bears (2): No disgrace in...

Why won't anybody listen to me? Especially professional sports owners and general managers. They think they know more than the rest of us when many times they really don't know as much (see the Magic's acquisition of Gilbert Arenas). If the...

This will sound like an attack on Chad Henne, and it's not meant that way. He's a good person, by all accounts. Teammates like him. And, heaven knows, it's not his fault two merging seasons have collapsed into a heap of irrelevance. But has any...

The Bears may appear to be going nowhere, but that doesn't mean Lovie Smith is headed anywhere. Smith effectively can seal another contract with a victory over the Packers on Sunday. Beating the Packers is important to Bears ownership, and Smith could...

When you have nothing, you have nothing to lose. Do yourself a favor, Jacksonville Jaguars. Bring Tim Tebow back home where he belongs. Make yourself instantly interesting. Make yourself immediately relevant. Throw your downtrodden fans a bone; give...

— Never in anyone's wildest imagination could the end of the Andy Reid era as coach of the Philadelphia Eagles have gone down like this. Anyone who says they saw it unfolding this way is lying or insane or both. Probably both. What we're...

Running off at the typewriter. … Florida State's come-from-behind, skin-of-the-teeth victory over Virginia Tech Thursday night could have been career-altering for coach Jimbo Fisher. Think about it: If FSU loses the game, Clemson likely goes to...

The Sports Xchange NFL Team Report - Jacksonville Jaguars - INSIDE SLANT Same person? Yes. Same offense? Don't know, he wouldn't say this time. Same explanation? Yes. Same length of time to explain it? No, much shorter this time. That sums up the...

The Sports Xchange NFL Team Report - Jacksonville Jaguars - INSIDE SLANT What is it with wide receivers and the Jacksonville Jaguars? It's like oil and water, night and day, the Hatfields and McCoys. What it's not been is paradise. The latest rift...