Muhsin Muhammad

How do you think this year's defensive unit compares with the '85 Bears? -- Mike Litwin, Chicago Let's not get carried away here. This is a good defense. It can't touch the '85 Bears though, which many regard as the greatest defense in modern NFL...

Muhsin Muhammad said famously that Chicago was where wide receivers go to die. Tribune Bears beat monster Brad Biggs brought up that line in this piece about Roy Williams, who is the first Bears receiver to be presented as a No. 1 guy since Muhammad....

Devin Hester was performing somersaults. Matt Forte was running wild, too. Even so, this was hardly a breather for the Chicago Bears. Hester set an NFL record with his 11th punt return for a touchdown, Forte ran for a career-high 205 yards and Chicago...

This was looking like the Bears' defense of the old, reminiscent of the one that paved the way to the Super Bowl last season. Guys swarmed to the ballcarrier. They dusted off their old punishing hits. And "opportunistic" became part of their vocabulary...

If only the Bears had finished Saturday night's 31-28 exhibition victory over the 49ers with the biggest concerns about Rex Grossman being his ability to handle the quarterback-center exchange. Those worries, resurfacing when Grossman dropped the snap...

Friday marks the busiest shopping day of the year. And Monday the Bears will begin making a list of their own if they let the Broncos hand them their seventh loss. That's the reality of what Lovie Smith meant by stating flatly it would take 10 wins to...

A 19-16 victory in a must-win game should have created at least a bit of a stir in the Bears' locker room. But linebacker Lance Briggs saw little reason to celebrate, at least about the defensive effort. "We need to do better," Briggs said. "We missed...

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...

This city is where NFL immortals live forever and where the 2005 edition of "Monday Night Football" began with the annual Hall of Fame Game. That's a lot of greatness and tradition for a Bears franchise that is familiar with those concepts, even if it...

Ricky Manning Jr. and Charles Tillman sat side-by-side in the Bears' locker room with a statistics packet in hand, trying to make sense out of the numbers displayed on Page 2. It wasn't the only time the Bears' defense looked a bit confused Sunday....

Bears 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...

Bears linebacker Brian Urlacher was not on the field for the first 15 minutes of practice Friday. Only the first 15 minutes are open to the media. The coaching staff was unavailable to immediately discuss Urlacher's absence. Coach Lovie Smith was...