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DETROIT -- We all just saw the Green Bay Packers pass up a 49-yard field goal (indoors) in favor of going for it on fourth-and-4 at the Detroit Lions' 31-yard line. Quarterback Aaron Rodgers' pass to receiver Randall Cobb fell incomplete, but here...

Spend just a few minutes on Mary Ann Bell's blog and you'll feel awful silly, as I did, about getting fired up about one Detroit Lions player sucker-punching another. Bell is the mother of Faith Falzone, the girl whose family Lions quarterback Mat...

Wednesday morning's BBAO post referenced Dan Pompei's excellent analysis of the Chicago Bears' increasingly unfounded faith in receiver Roy Williams. If you missed it, here was the key line: "What he does not have is evidence, at 29, that he is a dyn...

Did we take an inordinate leap of faith recently when we discussed Christian Ponder's seemingly inevitable status as the Minnesota Vikings' 2011 starting quarterback? Lockout or not, I've thought the Vikings would do everything they could to get P...

Here is one thing I think we can conclude from Monday's reports that Brett Favre won't play in 2010: The Minnesota Vikings really did take a blind leap of faith by standing pat this offseason at the quarterback position. I always assumed they had som...

Posted by ESPN.com's Kevin Seifert MINNEAPOLIS -- Minnesota's offense has gained a grand total of 43 net yards in three possessions in the second half, and time is running out. The Vikings haven't displayed a ton of faith in quarterback Tarvaris J...

Posted by ESPN.com's Kevin Seifert After Green Bay's 20-17 loss at Chicago, here are three (mostly) indisputable facts I feel relatively sure about: 1. Is it possible for a coach to have too much faith in his place-kicker? If so, Mike McCarthy fits ...

Jeff Gross/Getty Images The Bears are showing more confidence in quarterback Kyle Orton. Posted by ESPN.com's Kevin Seifert The question didn't take too long to surface. After all, there had to be a reason why Kyle Orton was s...

Posted by ESPN.com's Kevin Seifert After Carolina's 20-17 victory over the Bears, here are three (mostly) indisputable facts I feel relatively sure about: 1. The Bears won't lose faith in tight end Greg Olsen after he fumbled following both receptio...

Posted by ESPN.com's Kevin Seifert The long-running contract dialogue between middle linebacker Brian Urlacher and the Chicago Bears always carried a heavy undertone: Did the Bears really believe that Urlacher, 30, had a good enough long-term bill of...