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We don't know much about quarterbacks in Chicago; how could we if the best one we ever had played so long ago he wore a leather helmet? We don't know much about receivers either; Brandon Marshall is like a Martian in the context of Chicago's foot...

The Bears will miss Brian Urlacher, but history shows there will be another for the linebacker-blessed franchise.

Chicago Bears Brian Urlacher is just the latest casualty of an NFL system that shows no mercy -- even for the game's icons, writes ESPNChicago.com's Michael Wilbon. Urlacher deserved a better exit but there isn't much time for nostalgia in the ...

It's a surprise when it ends amicably in the NFL, when the Hall of Fame-bound superstar finishes his career with the same team he's led for a dozen or so years. Professional sports, all of them, are big and often nasty business. But this is what the ...

Brian Urlacher is another casualty of an NFL system that shows no mercy -- even for icons.

Thursday, Scott Van Pelt and Ryen Russillo host from the Bristol, CT studios. They'll welcome ESPN NFL analyst Lomas Brown (1:30 p.m. ET), ESPN the Magazine's Chad Millman (1:45), Texans linebacker Connor Barwin (2:15), ESPN's Michael Wilbon (2:30) a...

Bottom line is that if the Bears miss the playoffs, even if they beat the sorry Cardinals and Lions to go 10-6 ... if they miss the playoffs it will be five times in six years that the Bears would have failed to make the postseason. And if that winds...

Thursday, Scott Van Pelt and Ryen Russillo host from the Bristol, CT studios. They'll welcome ESPN NFL analyst Jason Taylor (1:30 p.m. ET), ESPN the Magazine's Chad Millman (1:45), Florida coach Billy Donovan (2:00), ESPN's Michael Wilbon (2:30) and ...

Thursday, Scott Van Pelt and Ryen Russillo host from the Bristol, CT studios. They'll welcome ESPN NFL analyst Lomas Brown (1:30 p.m. ET) ESPN the Magazine's Chad Millman (1:45), Syracuse coach Jim Boeheim (2:15), ESPN's Michael Wilbon (2:30) and ESP...

SAN FRANCISCO -- One of the surest bets in the NFL is the Chicago Bears getting clowned in Candlestick Park. They don't just fly out and lose; the Bears, from all indications, head west completely unprepared and cowering, as if somewhere in the back ...

The Bears leave San Francisco -- as usual -- in crisis mode.

Turns out the experts and Las Vegas oddsmakers were right about the Chicago Bears, at least for now. They can't handle an opponent of consequence. The defense can't count on scoring every single game and the offense still operates like something out ...

The entire football world is searching for, if not a historically great team, at least a team to believe in. Why not the Chicago Bears? OK, 13-7 over the Detroit Lions wasn't a masterpiece, but then again who in professional football today is...

Apparently it's been so long now people have forgotten that December Monday night in 1985 at the Orange Bowl in Miami when the Chicago Bears lost the only game of their greatest season. OK, it's not the loss that's important to this discussion bu...

The Bears should just let Cutler do his thing, and they might be better off for it.

DALLAS -- How dare we think offense would be the calling card of this team, that the defense would be along just for the ride? How dare we think Urlacher and Briggs and Peppers and Peanut Tillman were too old and not imposing enough anymore and incap...