Phillip Daniels

A look at how each player on the 2003 roster came to be a Bear. Thirty-two of the 53 players on the active roster (60.4%) were either draftees of the Bears or undrafted free agents signed with the Bears. Only one player (R.W. McQuarters) was acquired via...

Monday in lake Forest, Brian Urlacher's defensive teammates were still talking about his leap over Atlanta running back Warrick Dunn Sunday. Late in the third quarter with the Bears up 14-13, Urlacher charged in on a blitz. Dunn tried to block the...

Good thing for the Bears that cornerback R.W. McQuarters' memory is shorter than his hair. The last time McQuarters tried stopping the opponent's elite wide receiver while trying to protect a fourth-quarter lead at Soldier Field, two weeks ago Sunday...

They were numb afterward, and the windchill had nothing to do with it. This was a dead group of players, anesthetized, undeniably finished with four games left to go and having a hard time convincing even themselves anymore that threatening to win...

Jim Miller needed neither ammunition nor anyone's permission to gloat Sunday. The point was so obvious, it barely needed to be made. Miller took the same team, the same teammates and essentially the same offense and did what Cade McNown had largely...

The Monday following their sixth straight loss, Bears players were hardly in a talking mood. The few that were at Halas Hall to explain why everything could go so wrong in the second half of a the 19-13 loss to the Philadelphia Eagles repeated familiar...

R.W. McQuarters said he was searching around on the ground as he headed for the locker room at the end of Sunday's loss to the Eagles. "I think the officials threw a flag on me on the way to the tunnel," the Bears veteran cornerback said sardonically. "I...

You are not going to believe this one. Remember the San Francisco game last week? When the Bears scored two touchdowns late in the fourth quarter, then won in overtime when safety Mike Brown intercepted a deflected pass and scored the winning touchdown?...

What's up with the change to Leon Johnson on passing downs? Can Thomas not pass block, or is there something else going on? --Brad Marsh, Santa Rosa, Calif. As I outline in my Tuesday story, a lot is going on, even though the Bears aren't calling Thomas'...

The Bears' foundation—running the ball—cracked severely in their 25-7 loss to the Minnesota Vikings, one of the NFL's poorest run-stopping teams. The Bears' top rusher was backup quarterback Henry Burris, who scrambled for 19 yards in two series of...

Coach Dick Jauron was asked last week why Green Bay Packers had dominated the Bears over the last decade. Jauron answered politely that he thought the Packers' superiority seemed to coincide nicely with the arrival of Brett Favre. The Favre Decade...

The Bears, remember them? It seems like ages ago since that Monday night pasting by the Packers. In reality it was only two weeks ago and the Bears and their fans have had the bye week to either dwell on it or forget about it. This week it's the Lions,...