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INDIANAPOLIS -- I sat in on the Manti Te'o news conference Saturday afternoon. After all, you could argue that three of our four teams in the NFC North are in the market for an inside/middle linebacker in the 2013 NFL draft. A fourth, the Detroit Lio...

CHICAGO -- OK folks, it's time to settle in for Packers-Bears II. Technology willing, I plan to spend most of the game in our Countdown Live chat, which you can access here or by scrolling down a few posts on the blog. See you on the other side....

CHICAGO -- With a little over an hour remaining before Packers-Bears II, let's roll through Sunday morning's roster maneuverings and a few other pregame notes. The Chicago Bears will be even more short-handed than originally thought. The Bears de...

CHICAGO -- Good morning from Soldier Field. As you can see from this Instagram photograph it is cloudy, windy and mournful here as we await what could be one of the more significant games in recent NFC North history. Flags around the country are a...

During a spot this week with our friends at the "D-List" on ESPN 540, I was asked to boil down what has happened to the Chicago Bears after their 7-1 start. I wish I could have simply held up the chart in this post, but apparently, you must articulat...

We're Black and Blue All Over: There has been so much talk this week about, well, talk, that we've reached Friday of Packers-Bears week and have a pile of injury information to sort through. Thanks to Jeff Dickerson of ESPNChicago.com, we know ...

When the Chicago Bears and Green Bay Packers met in the 2010 NFC Championship Game, we noted how professional and cordial their rivalry was. Their fans might hate each other, but the teams themselves rarely crossed into trash-talk and never engaged i...

Thanks to everyone for participating in our "PackBearsChat" over on Twitter earlier Thursday afternoon. We used three of your topics to roll through a discussion on Sunday's big matchup between the Green Bay Packers and Chicago Bears at Soldier Field...

Way back in 2009, we christened the "JayRod" rivalry to help us track what we figured would be a long and competitive rivalry between two young and ascending quarterbacks in the NFC North. Since that point, Jay Cutler has led the Chicago Bears to ...

Well, that escalated quickly. I snuck away from the blog for an hour Wednesday afternoon to record the weekly Inside Slant podcast, and two related news items were waiting upon my return. First, Green Bay Packers defensive back Charles Woodson has...

The Chicago Bears didn't practice Wednesday because their beat-up roster needed an additional day of recovery. Clearly, however, their players' mouths -- literal and virtual -- are unaffected. We've already discussed receiver Brandon Marshall's ch...

Green Bay Packers offensive lineman T.J. Lang (ankle) was healthy enough to be in uniform for last Sunday night's game against the Detroit Lions. That progress has led to reasonable speculation that he will be ready to play this Sunday against the Ch...

Packers-Bears Preview

You know how we are around here. We don't like to live in the moment. We want to look ahead, to anticipate what's next, to project and speculate and prognosticate. When at all possible, we look for deep meaning and revealing symbolism in everyday eve...

A bit later Tuesday, we'll take a look at the big-picture implications of Sunday's matchup at Soldier Field. In the meantime, however, let's note that the Chicago Bears won't have three of their top special-teams players when they host the Green Bay ...

Quick-hit thoughts around the NFL and with the Patriots: 1. Watching Thursday's Packers-Bears game, and seeing how the Bears used defensive end Julius Peppers as an interior rusher on third down, had me thinking this looks like a new trend in the ...