Rick Mirer

In-depth analysis is no longer necessary where the Bears are concerned. Just this simple reminder: You can't win if you can't score. And you can't win very often scoring a field goal a game against decent teams on the road. But here's the thing: You...

It was as good as it gets for a little while Monday night. Good enough for the Bears' defense to feel truly proud of itself. Good enough for Rashaan Salaam and Raymont Harris to believe the running-back combination could actually work. Good enough even,...

It might be too soon to view it as anything more than another Bears defeat, though an especially cruel one. But one day, Sunday night might be looked back on as much, much more than that. In what has to be the lowest point of the five-year Dave Wannstedt...

Maybe the scariest part is that the Bears, to a man, did not know what to say. That they were neither angry nor frustrated as much as positively bewildered. That they had absolutely no clue how to explain what they all admitted was an appalling 32-7...

The Bears did what they had to do Sunday night. And it left them with a coach confused, a defense feeling betrayed and an offense resentful. It also left them with a 13-10 victory over a dreadful St. Louis Rams outfit, their third victory in the last...

The off-season envelops them now like both a tropical-island retreat and a long, dark tunnel: enticing for its instant relief, repellent for its protracted agony. And Sunday's hideous 31-15 loss to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers only reinforced the conflict....