Walt Harris

Jim Flanigan's jaw was clenched so tightly, his teeth threatened to shatter under the pressure, and you wonder how much a six-year Bears veteran can take. You wonder how many more of these any of them can absorb and dissect and move past when every week,...

Perhaps it is a measure of how bad last season was, how demoralizing four lethargic, emotionless exhibition losses were, that a 24-23 loss to a Super Bowl contender such as the Jacksonville Jaguars seemed vaguely like a win. The Bears rushed for 132...

They vowed they would not get caught napping this week, that if, in fact, they lost for the second week in a row, it would not be for a lack of effort. Talk about setting yourself up for disappointment. The Bears did look somewhat better in the effort...

Yes, those were your Chicago Bears at Soldier Field on Sunday. Essentially the same guys in the same uniforms you saw taking a knee at the two-minute warnings and running their tailbacks off left guard on third-and-11. The same franchise that has drummed...

They are the Charlie Browns of the National Football League. Each game the ball is jerked out from under them. Each week they come back for more. And every time the Bears depart politely into the night--the sooner to get beat up again. On this Sunday,...

Almost good enough never felt worse, primarily because it keeps looking better. If the Bears almost beat Jacksonville, Pittsburgh and Tampa Bay the first three weeks of the season, then they really almost beat the Minnesota Vikings Sunday, performing...

The assumption is that something other than their own excellence was responsible for making the Philadelphia Eagles look like a playoff team Sunday. The question is, did Cade McNown's debut as starting quarterback slow up the Bears just enough to stumble...

They were not specifically trying to save their coach's job. Nor were they trying to prove anyone wrong, shut anyone up or lay anyone out. They were certainly not attempting to move down in the draft order, but they did not particularly care if they...

They come wrapped in different packages each week. Dressed up or dressed down depending on the locale or the stakes involved. They are a big disappointment or a bigger disappointment or, worse yet, as it was Sunday in the Bears' 26-20 loss to Green Bay,...

You were scared for them at first. Seriously frightened that for the first time in the annals of organized sport, a team might actually be ground into the artificial turf and disappear. Minnesota's offense operated as if running its pregame walkthrough,...

Marc Colombo Position: Left tackle. Pick: 1st round, 29th overall. School: Boston College. Height, weight: 6 feet 7 inches, 313 pounds. Quick look: Massive physical blocker expected to win starting left tackle job, replacing released vet Blake...

An ominous shadow of doubt continued to grow over and within the Bears on Sunday, as a 21-14 loss to the Detroit Lions ran their record to 0-4 and their answers to zero. The defeat was the Bears' eighth in their last nine games and their 12th in the last...